Charted and stitched by Gytha North
Copyright Sue Mason and Gytha North 2000
Artwork: Sue Mason
Copyright Sue Mason 2000
The original artwork is by Sue Mason, a talented but starving
artist. Gytha North adapted, charted and stitched the design as a gift for Sue.
Gytha met Sue through science fiction fandom. Sue lives in Altrincham, England and is
currently teaching crafts and selling her art as pyrographed and designs on wood at
Woodlore Pyrography.
Sue did a couple of pictures for Gytha to turn into
needlepoint cushions about 7 or so years ago, what with one thing and another it
never got done. Then Gytha moved to Scotland and was unemployed with plenty
of time but no money. Gytha wanted to do something special for Sue, and then
Gytha found the pictures. It is Gytha's first attempt at a cross stitch design
and the finished product looks quite different from the original artwork, partially due to
limiting the colours used and also to avoid the design looking "cartoony".
It is stitched over 2 on 32 count linen with DMC threads. Design size is approx. 4" x 5". If Gytha were doing it again she would go for a darker pallet of colours and add some metallics or blending filament, he wouldn't be "Misty" then though.