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I totally blame Chele for this one. She posted on one of the HAED Facebook groups that she was going to try doing a design in tent stitch, 2 over 1 on 28-count lugana.
I love my Heaven and Earth Designs projects, but they are so big and I stitch so little, that the idea of a stitching method that might be faster and easier was very tempting. I didn’t want to mess with either of my big projects (Defender of the Kingdom and Dawn Star), so I decided to give it a go on my Quick Stitch of Garnet by Meredith Dillman. I’ve done very little on that, much as I love it, and I knew I wasn’t going to be going back to it any time soon.
I didn’t have any 28-ct evenweave, so first I tried a few tent stitches on my 25-ct project and I agreed with Chele that the coverage wasn’t good enough. So I went and bought a piece of 28-ct.
And, oh boy, this really is a whole lot easier, and I can do it much more quickly too. I’ve totally abandoned the original project and I’m zooming along (health permitting as always) with the new version. I’m even wondering if I should restart both my big projects this way. I’ve done quite a lot of them on both, but I have way more to do than I’ve completed. In the long run, it might be more beneficial to restart. But then again… I’m not going to make any decisions about that until QS Garnet is finished.
QS Garnet, Original Art by Meredith Dillman
This is how far I got the first time. This was a grand total of about 6 days stitching.
2nd March 2012: My first day of stitching
3rd March 2012: After 2 days of stitching
5th March 2012: After 3 days of stitching
7th March 2012: After 4 days of stitching
8th March 2012: After 5 days of stitching (sorry the picture isn't very good)
Defender of the Kingdom
Artist: Thomas Canty
Designer: ©Heaven and Earth Design
Fabric: 25-count Mocha Lugana
Design Size: 300 x 477
Started: 28th September, 2005
This is another case where my love of book covers combines with my passion for cross stitch. This is a Thomas Canty painting which was the cover for Patricia Kennealy-Morrison’s The Silver Branch, which is part of a favourite trilogy of books. When Michele charted this one, I bought it on the spot and it is the HAED pattern I chose to start stitching. It’s going to be slow progress, but I’m loving how it has turned out so far.
Just a quick starter post here.
I’m planning to put any stitching progress I make up here. Sadly, I don’t stitch much anymore – the combination of my CFS and parenting leaves me unable to do very much at all. Still, every so often I manage to get a few stitches in.
If you want to see pictures of what I’ve done prior to this, I suggest you try out my Flickr Albums, where I’ve posted my earlier progress.
