The World

And of course, the last piece of the birthday present was the world.  Discworld, that is.  Again, PlanetJune came to the rescue in helping me make that a reality.  I made the underworld first in all blue, reveled in the fact it was actually flat, photographed it, stuck it in Photoshop, laid a map of Discworld over it, marked stitches as different colors, printed it out and went to work on the top world.

I didn't realize until it was too late that I was pulling the yarn on the underside too tight, but it helped make the mountain 3D in the end.  I didn't cut the yarn between colors because that just seemed like too much work, just let go of the one I didn't need anymore and pulled up the one I did.

As to be expected, the pattern and what I was working on quickly departed from each other.  I don't know how, I don't know why, but I had to start changing colors on the fly and it worked out.  It's not 100 percent accurate, but who cares?  It turned out more perfect than I could have hoped, and it fit right on the backs of the elephants on the back of the great A'tuin.

There was so much back and forth making this, and for a while, I really worried that it wasn't going to turn out.  And then it all came together and it did.