Photo-a-Day - June: Day 14: Time. Once Upon A

Photo-a-Day - June: Day 14: Time - Once Upon A...

Or, in French, the language of the original story, Il était une fois...  I found this canvas in a needlepoint shop, now gone, in the town of Napa.  As well as being an anglophile, I'm a bit of a francophile, having so loved my time in Paris.  I knew immediately I had to stitch this stocking, but it wasn't as easy as it seemed.

The bedpost, base, windows. stairs and horses trappings were all poorly painted, out of proportion and symmetry so much time was spent correcting them.  I wanted the bed curtains and bedding to appear as if they were old velvet.  I don't know how many combinations of reds I tried before I found the seven (7) shades that worked.  The window and spiders web are done in metallic threads, as are the embellishments on the trappings.
 
Completed in 2000, the stocking took me over a year to stitch, but I loved it.  Then the question of where to hang it.  It's not really a Christmas stocking.  Instead, the stocking lives year round on the door to my bedroom in hopes (not really) that someday my prince will come.