HAED QS

Last year I started a Quick Stitch from Heaven and Earth Designs called Unicorn Valley. It's only tiny for a HAED 100x113 stitches. I think I've been working on it for about 6 weeks now and this is my progress.

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Oh dear, it appears that I have forgotten about my blog for quite a while now! In that time I have been busy. Got a new job serving coffee in some little kiosk in town. Spent lots of time following Love Amongst Ruin. Went up to Manchester to had out flyers during their Feeder support slot last week and off down to Portsmouth to do the same again tomorrow.

During the long time since my last update I have started several new projects, re-started several older projects and created a whole new rotation to stitch them in.

I have also made quite a bit of progress on my other projects. I have completed Burning Beauty, horrid back stitch and all.

I have also made a lot of progress on Cancer Chesterton - I have completed pages 1 and 2 and made a good start on page 3.

Have also made some progress on Vlad and most of my other HAED projects. Will post more pictures of them as I work on them.

What Have I Been Doing?

I can't believe the last time I updated here was in April! I don't even seem to have done that much stitching in the past couple of months looking at the last few pictures I posted. It's a little bit depressing really ( I blame the True Blood books, spent far too long reading them)

This is my latest update on Vampire Cat Vlad. I've almost finished the second page now. The blues and purples have been fun to stitch as they are nice big blocks of colour. The greys and blacks have been slower as there is more confetti, although not nearly as much as on Chesterton.

Really looking forward to finishing page 2 as it will only be my second page finish on a HAED chart. It's also one of my stitching goals for this year so will give my a nice sense of accomplishment.

Chesterton Again

After a couple of weeks break I'm back stitching Chesterton again.

This is about 3300 stitches and around 60 different colours out of 90 in total. So far I'm about 1.5% of the way through the chart in about 3 weeks - that's 0.5% per week so I'd better start stitching faster if I ever want to see it done!

I'm still waiting for some more floss to arrive so I can start kitting up for the 3 new starts I have planned for this month. I have a funny feeling I won't be seeing that floss now and I'll have to go out and buy a load more from somewhere. Don't think I will risk getting cheap floss from Japan again as it's been over a month since I ordered.

Burning Black

This week I have mostly been stitching black - along with some dark browns. This is a DMC kit I started a couple of weeks ago and I've done 2 weeks work on him now. The kit is called Burning Beauty and has lots of light effects, satin and metallic threads. It should look really nice when done but think the special threads will prove difficult to work with.



I bought even more stash this week. Got 2 HAED charts from a closing down sale for £4.00 each and a load of 28 count fabric from ebay for £15. now that I have some more fabric I can start to think about starting the chart I won in the HAED bingo. I'm waiting for some more floss to arrive than I'll be kitting up my next 3 new starts.

Back to Vlad

Managed to out in some work on Vlad again this week for the HAED BB UFO/SWIP SAL. Think I only managed to put a few hundred stitches in but at least I have put some work in on him, don't think I've touched him at all this year. He should look like this when (or if) completed.

Managed to grab some bargain Q Snap type frame off ebay the other day, now I'm just hunting for a good table stand to rest them on as they are a bit big for me just to hold in my hand. Once I track a nice stand down I think I'll have to stop with the X-stitch buying for a while :p

I'm hoping the new frames will let me stitch a little faster though, as it seems to take me forever to get even a little bit done :s