Some red wool that’s been in my stash for at least a dozen years finally gets its chance to shine! It’s the perfect weight for crocheting a trim for my heart wall hanging. Here it is, mostly done. It will go around the outside of the piece.
Two posts back, I said that the wall hanging looks different in the photo than it does in real life. Woolwinder asked, “How does it look different?” First, the piece looks crisper in the photo. In real life, you see the fuzzy yarn and the texture of the stitches and the sewing. The camera flattens everything out. Also the flash seems to brighten the white, which gives the whole thing more contrast.
The other thing is that I had been working on the piece on a smaller level: cutting the patches, piecing them, sewing each patch. So my eye was seeing things up very close. The photo shows the whole piece, and you can’t really even see the separate patches. It’s a perspective shift, which catches me off guard.