Time for a sort of local cross stitch. I forget where I came across these city patterns, but they have one for the closest large city to where I live. I purchased this way back in 2018 and had not taken time to start it yet, so here we go! Eventually it will look like this:
Since this design is so colourful, and Burlington is on the waterfront, I chose a fairly plain blue/green fabric, again from Chromatic Alchemy.
I didn't get a huge start, but it's definitely started!
Burlington by Awesome Pattern Studio
stitched 2 over 2 on 28ct Eden by Chromatic Alchemy
with DMC threads as charted
If anyone is familiar with Burlington, technically the whale tails are in Williston, and they were originally moved from near Randolph (1+hr south), but you definitely see them on the way to Burlington on the northbound main highway. They even have lights on them now, which is kind of fun. When my mom first saw them, she thought they were like modern art cats, which I can kind of see now. I think I had been told they were whale tails, so that's all I could see before she said that.
Also, there was this whole big deal that the artist didn't want them near the "big city", but they were purchased by someone who moved them, so the artist made new ones in Randolph.
Here's what they actually look like:
Reverence by Jim Sardonis (1989)
and the new ones in Randolph:
Whale Dance by Jim Sardonis (2019)
They're made of granite, about 36 tons, and if you're curious why whales in the middle of landlocked Vermont, over 10,000 years ago this area of Vermont was under water. In 1849 the bones of a beluga whale were found in a swampy area a little south of Burlington. Since then, they've found 20 or so ancient beluga fossils.
The artist's intention seems to be to show the fragility of nature. They're very beautiful.
If you ever come to Vermont, try and see at least one set of them!
Hope your stitching day has gone well,
Happy Stitching!
Tiffstitch
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