Stitching Kandinsky

Monday afternoons is our cross stitch group, but as my brain is a bit befuddled from this blasted virus I thought I'd play safe and bring some knitting instead. Remember how I raved about Melody Johnson's mitred square cushions and I just had to have a try at them? I've been doing a few squares here and there and this is the first opportunity I've had to see them all together. hmm, I think a few adjustments are in order. I don't like the big square in the bottom right corner, it seems insipid. I'm inclined to do some more with black in them, I like the contrast in the centre square. Anyway, I'll just keep churnin' them out and then have a big play and use the best blend on the front and the crappy ones on the back.

This is my current cross stitch project. It's a Kandinsky painting that I converted to a cross stitch pattern with one of those software programmes. Lordy, I hope it's legal and Mr K isn't rolling in his grave.... still, it's only going on my wall so hopefully I wont be clapped in irons and forced to eat gruel.

I'm quite enjoying this project as it's something a bit different. I was interested to see that the cross stitch conversion programme didn't quite know how to cope with the geometric lines and has not interpreted them as lines at all, just hints of lines. Actually I rather like the effect, gives it a unique look.

My friend Anne is also stitching a pattern made by this cross stitch programme, but her pattern was created from a family photograph of a house on a river. It looks fantastic and she is stitching it on linen which makes it look doubly fantastic.

I'm glad I went to sewing (I nearly piked out cos of illness), it always lightens my spirit as we get down to the serious duty of chit chat. It was an interesting blend of conversation with such things as people being inadvertently locked in the toilet to keeping travel diaries to the US veto on vegemite. And, I must tell you, they were on the champagne AGAIN!