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today is friday

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I had a dream once that there was a Robespierre emoji and it looked like this:

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My last original post sent twice so I would like to formally apologize to whoever reblogged the second one bc it is now deleted

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girls only want one thing

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in my country, we pledge allegiance to the saintspierre flag 🫡

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Redrew Georges Couthon with flowers yipeeeee (the whole thing holds a special place in my heart and i have no idea why lol). I also got my bachelors degree yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

i like to think i improved at least color wise lol

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This portrait of Saint-just is SO underrated, it's like my favourite portrait of him. He's so cute with his thin eyebrows and gigantic cravat.

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Another side project complete! This time in the form of the silhouette of Maximilien Robespierre. I'm pretty proud of this one, it was a real experiment for me and took me out of my comfort zone in a few different ways.

I've always really loved the aesthetic of silhouette portraits but it's definitely a style that lends itself more to the smooth lines of more "traditional" embroidery rather than cross stitch. I had abandoned ideas like this several times before this one. The turning point in making this pattern work was being able to get much more detail when working with higher count fabrics. Usually I default to 14 count, occasionally branching out to 16 or 18 when necessary. For this I stitched one over one on 28 count fabric. It was pretty horrendous to begin with and I couldn't work on it for very long before having to take a break but I did eventually get used to it. It is also an evenweave fabric as opposed to my preferred aida fabrics - this also meant I had to change my stitching method slightly to accommodate this. It's a pretty small piece, only 4" by 5", but I started it about three months ago I think? And though I did not work on it regularly, it was by no means a quick or easy project. Even just the way it's made with only one thread colour at times was Not Fun.

The actual silhouette part I made by just tracing a side profile engraving of him although turning it into a pattern did take forever to get right. More interesting to me was adding the initial. I was originally going to just stitch on his initials in whatever font looked best and then one day while looking at the signatures on a committee document, I came up with the bright idea of replicating his own handwriting. It was a real labour of love trying to get it as accurate as I could but I'm fairly happy with how it turned out. So yes, the R is based on Robespierre's signature.

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Bc me personally,

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they match each other’s freak to a degree that is dangerous to the public