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AUSTIN, Texas, Feb 9, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A Texas woman has spent 10 years recreating Michelangelo's painting of the ceiling of Rome's Sistine Chapel in full-color cross-stitching.
Joanna Lopianowski-Roberts, 41, scaled back her work to 80 by 40 inches, but says that still took her 700 hours of designing, and 2,872 hours to make the piece, which includes 628,296 stitches in 1,809 different color combinations.
She has applied to the Guinness Book of Records to have it recognized as the world's largest completed cross-stitch.
On Friday, the piece will debut at the 17th Needle Arts Exhibit in Austin, Texas, near her home in Junction. That will coincide with the debut of a book she wrote showing stitchers how they can do it on the self-publishing lulu.com Web site.
"I enjoyed the whole thing so much, I would happily stitch it again," Roberts said.
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