if you want to feel like you have been granted eternal life, make this. i felt like it was never going to end. no, i didn't enjoy it. and yes, i might have learned from the two times i started it and ripped it all out. but i really wanted to finish.
let's take a closer look. as reported earlier, you do not see the secret image of the shroud of turin from the side, but instead from the chin -- which means you have to be far away, and under Him. (this is the reason, in part, i put the little i-cord loops at the top, thinking it might be hung on the wall, fairly high up, to better advantage.)
hmmm. i'm sorry to report that i was having an easier time seeing the image in my previous green-and-pink lopi incarnations of this piece. but heavens, at least now this is in cotton and can be used for something. perhaps it can line a basket of baked goods. the laying on of breadsticks.
i am not good at making nice neat backs when carrying a lot of floats, and this looked really wretched. so i put a backing on it, with a cute towel i found at williams-sonoma. in a hip and updated take on the "fisher of men" concept, we have here a "bouquet" of shrimp, with female names.
ben, being adorable and jewish, exclaimed when he saw the finished piece: "now you'll definitely get into heaven!" well, he is the guy who asked (seriously) "why the virgin mary couldn't fly"...
it's finished. next!