one BILLION eerie portraits

Original - my pattern

I had the unedited pattern sitting in stitch fiddle for forever but I’m glad I finally finished this!!! I took some more liberties than usual with recoloring spaces (hsy on the right’s hair) but I think it looks good.

Not all wip pics are included but I got significantly better at taking them every day! Fun fact: the final day I was working on it, I did rows 128-138 in the afternoon with the goal of hitting 150 in the evening. I then finished it. Such is the power of putting on a good movie and zoning the fuck out during the boring top rows.

The back! Preblocked so it’s wonky but I did a decent job with not going overboard on bobbins… kinda… weaving in ends is a problem for later me

Original - pattern

Weird coincidence - Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan by Ilya Repin

No real connection, just interesting

It’s reversible! Ends aren’t woven in but the back is essentially the same as the front.

For this project, I actually collaborated with d0gtoothjones to edit the pattern. When I input any given image into the program I use (stitch fiddle), it can take me anywhere between 30 mins and 6 hours to edit the pattern.

(Earlier draft of pattern for comparison)

Tried to take more update pics as I went for this project but I can’t include all of them

Waterboard the baby

I added more emphasis to the light coming from the eye, but other than that it was just my usual edits

Some wip pics (actually took a decent number this time). Despite hating it towards the end, this only took 24 days to finish.

I could not find any applicable or decent tutorials on framing crochet tapestry soooooo I had to figure it out as I went. If I do this again I’ll probably make a full guide/tutorial on it but for now I just have some wip pics.

Essentially I staple gunned the projects to some plywood and built the frames around it. The most annoying part was assembling the frames but I think that’s just because it’s frames.