Heart-a-Day 2013 - Week 13

This tapestry started out with a lot of promise--but now that's been replaced by a lot of hearts! I'm starting to picture the finished product as a three-layer sewn wall-hanging kind of piece. Exciting! So, now that I'm sure this is not going to turn into a UFO (unfinished object) I'm reducing my posts to every other week, for updates. It keeps me motivated!

I don't use a hoop--good aida cloth stays nice and firm, so you really don't have to use a hoop. It's a choice between wrinkles and sharp creases from a hoop--I think wrinkles are easier to get out, and with the way I like to hold the aida cloth when I cross-stitch, it's more comfortable for me.

PROJECT DETAILS
Project Name: A Heart a Day 2013
Start Day: January 1, 2013
Materials: White Platinum 14-count Aida Cloth (a beautiful, high-quality, 
crisp white) DMC's Anniversary Embroidery Floss Pack - 36 gorgeous colors 
 celebrating DMC's 100th anniversary, beginning with DMC 3831 and going in order through 3866
Technique: Cross-stitch
Goal: Fill the 18X20 inch aida tapestry with hearts and text
  
Colors used in order in:
Row 1: 3831/3833; 3833; 3831/3837; 3837; 3838/3836; 3838; 3842/3841; 3836; 3853/3837; 3854; 3854/3847; 3847
TEXT: May your beautiful heart be blissed and blessed
Row 2: 3834, 3834/3865, 3850, 3850/32, 3861, 3831/61, 3864, 3843/64, 3846, 3839/56, 3854/47, 3847, 3834
TEXT: Let love, peace and joy color your heart
Row 3: 3848/66, 3842, 3854/42, 3853, 3857/63, 3835, 3833/36, 3851, 3851/56, 3860, 3860/64, 3844, 3844/55
TEXT: A happy heart is stitched with many threads
Row 4: 3831, 3831/33, 3850

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Enjoy!

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Cross-stitched Heart

Eat, Write, Dream, and Stitch Your Heart Out!