My phone has been pinging quite a bit lately, notifying me that people have been saving my pins. Basically it was the cross-stitch equivalent of having knitting or crochet projects of varying difficulty levels. I bet you’re wondering why I left Betty mostly done instead of finishing the rest of her border? Took me a moment to remember too lol but it’s because I left myself things to work on that didn’t require concentration, so when I had more time I would work on HQ and follow my charts, and when I had the kids with me or was watching something that required more focus I could work on Betty’s border that didn’t require much thought or any chart reference. Considering I started these in 2017 and I’m typing this post in 2021, I’m glad I had that foresight!!Īfter finishing most of Betty I moved on to chart HQ next. Plus I didn’t know how long they would take to complete into full color and wanted to be able to hang them on the wall in the meantime. I didn’t want to have to refer to the charts throughout the entire stitching process so decided to start with the black outlines first, so I could then later fill them in, coloring-book-style. I’ve adored her for decades, and she’s featured in assorted places around my house, including in two different spots on this one shelving unit: As soon as I had the freedom to look beyond Riverdale I knew Harley Quinn HAD to be one of them. Initially I drafted up Betty, Archie and Veronica, and planned out a triptych of the three of them, but the more I thought about it the more I realized it was Betty specifically that I like, and that I didn’t care if I saw Archie and Veronica daily, so I scrapped them and looked around for more inspo. (He was even an Archie comics character for Hallowe’en last year, and I’ll be sharing that project here in October.) So clearly, Betty Cooper would be one of my cartoon trio. In addition to the coloring book from my last post, I’ve drawn Betty on the blog here before, and Henri had drawn Archie a few years back. There are Archie comics in nearly every room in my house, thanks to my kids enjoying them as much as I do. When looking for inspiration for what to stitch on them I really didn’t need to look very far. Every shelf and table has some item that references my varied interests, and I’ve even used some previous projects as home décor – see the Minecraft heads from my tutorials peeping from above the kids’ desk, along with an as-yet-unshown secret project hidden among the books – so I was really excited to fill a blank wall space in my dining room with a handmade project.įirst I purchased three of the largest plastic canvas sheets I could find.
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