Timetable for Completing a Needlepoint Tapestry

Video Transcript

"I am Francie DeMun and I am a tapestry artist here on behalf of Expert Village. As far as a time table for creating my pieces, they are time intensive. The work itself is time intensive but also even beyond that I don’t set a limit so that there is a natural evolution. Each piece takes 4 to 6 months to make. This is not working every minute but it is working pretty steadily but again a lot of that is putting in and taking out. This is like when I use the tiny stitches. Like again I will use in an example, the owl. That when you are doing the tiny stitches, it takes a very long time and you have to also allow for your body to work with us and not rush. One’s eyesight and the position. I sit in a way that I am kind of curled over to see and then in the end you know my arms, my neck, my hands and my eyes all get stiff. You have to keep yourself in balance while you are doing this. You know be good to yourself. If you get intensely involved, take breaks, do yoga in-between, take long walks, whatever and also just to kind of free up. You can kind of get contracted in your own creativity. You have to give yourself a break, breath, and shakeout and go back to it. "