Progress. Or, Barack Obama the Cross Stitch.

I couldn't resist this ridiculous undertaking which was certainly my biggest cross stitch project ever. Pattern thanks to subversive cross stitch for giving away this free Obama pattern with orders. I started stitching tiny x's on January 20th, inauguration day, and finished it several weeks later.





I messed up the pattern and forgot to put the Obama "O" on the lapel. I am comforted to see that sublime stitching made the same mistake in their sample. I think it looks better as the "O" of Hope.

I love the incidental art that occurs on the back of a cross stitch--so many nicely organized straight little lines.