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Thinking About The Finished Cross Stitching

This shouldn’t require a lot of thinking since I’ve only finished one thing but yesterday I was thinking about what I’ll do with the finished pieces.

When I first started buying charts, they were all either samplers or reproduction samplers:

Or charts that were muted colors of things I liked or had sayings I like:

But, lately, I’ve added some things that are brighter colors:

There are others but these are some I’d love to get done sooner rather than later. So that got me to thinking about how/where I’m going to display them. The living area in this house is really open with a lot of windows so I don’t have much space on the walls for hanging things. The wall below is obviously between the kitchen and living room. This is where I’d like to put the chair rail or molding so I could stand framed pieces up without actually hanging them on the wall. That way I could easily change them out or holidays or just to display others for a while. Of course, I’d need several finished before putting up a chair rail. For the most part, this is where I’d like to display samplers.

This is the opening that leads to a hallway where there are bedrooms. The family room has 12′ or 13′ ceilings. I guess I could put the chair railing all the way to the top — no, that’s a joke. I think that wouldn’t look so good.

Assuming I’ll get a lot of stitching done, I’d also like to have the chair railing there in that hall so whatever is displayed there would show from the family room. I’m thinking I’d put some of the brighter pieces there. I also have several charts that have cardinals so they could go there also.

This space is to the right of the opening that leads to the bedroom area. I have several redwork charts. Most of them are small so I’d maybe hang some of those in this area.

There are two walls in the dining room but I already had ideas for those walls. One is a painting of an old street in Lake Charles and I really want that displayed. I also have four framed prints that a friend brought me from Paris many years ago. He has long passed on and I love having those prints that remind me of him.

I have no idea what I’ll end up doing but I would like to have an idea of what I’m going to do with things before I get them stitched and find there’s no good place for them. I suppose before I spend any large amount of time worrying about where to put things, I should get a few more things stitched, right?

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  1. Hi
    You made me think, about all the samplers and redwork which I actually did in green and my favourite sayings. You see I actually gave all of them away so I had none to display. That was until I lost my parents and my sister handed me the golden wedding sampler I had made for them. That brought back so many memories, I designed it from scratch on graph paper!! That took an age to get right. I recorded it took 189 hours to stitch. My Mum loved it and was proud to show it off. It now hangs on my wall and makes me smile thinking about them. Now I intend to make a piece for Me. It’s harder to start for me than stitching for others. Wish me luck.

  2. I recently saw a flosstube post last week, I can’t remember who, Nicola Parkman maybe? Any way she had all of her samplers on a wall together. They were all red stitched samplers and designs with white frames, they really looked stunning on the same wall, being framed similarly. I’d like to fill a wall with my work too, someday, sort of like a museum or gallery. Gotta keep stitching.

  3. (I am SURE you know about the 3M products) but, the picture hanger thingies that are kinda like Velcro are fabulous for hanging things you might want to change without wall damage.

  4. You confused me there for a bit. You said chair rail but I think you mean a picture rail which is mounted much higher that a chair rail, which in my neck of the woods is at about 3 to 4 feet off the floor. Picture rail are usually 12 to 20 inches down from a ceiling. And you hang the picture with hooks and wire at whatever height you want. Many modern ones are lower with the picture sitting on them and leaning. As long as you don’t live in an earthquake zone those can work.
    I just saw a display of red work done by Susan (yardgrk60) on IG. She had a wall of red work in white frames. Really pretty and made me want to start doing samplers with red only.

    • The wood I want to use . . the guy who’s going to pt it up calls it “chair rail” and actually we’re going to put the first one about 4′ off the floor and then put one that’s a bit shorter about 2′ higher and then another yet shorter one about 2′ higher than that.

  5. Yes, years ago I had made osme things and didn’t really know what to do with them, so I decided before I started anything else I would know where I was going to use it or who I was going to gift it to.

  7. I also saw Susan Ache’s (yardgrl60) wall of redwork samplers on Instagram and fell in love with it. It made me want to start stitching!

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