I started this project right after I finished Celtic Spring - on one hand it's a relief to be stitching on aida again and not linen, buuuut on the other hand it's 18 count black aida. Ow, my poor eyes!
I also can't seem to find thread that I can use for guide-lines. I used them on my last kit, Fall Fairy, and they were a godsend, but using normal sewing thread was a big mistake! One that I only discovered when the time came to take the guidelines out and I realised that I had pierced the thread whilst doing my stitches and it was a massive pain in the arse to remove! So I've been trying to find Gutermann sulky metallic nylon thread, which is made of a single strand of nylon and can't be pierced. This quest would be easier if I still lived in Scotland with easy access to a Hobbycraft store and not western Sweden *sigh* I'm soldiering on without it right now, and I haven't miscounted. Yet, eheh.
The kit's OK so far. It has a much better thread sorter than the one that came with Fall Fairy - it has holes and the floss is looped through, not stuck to the sorter by the ends and needed to be pulled off, with the colours that needed LOADS of strands coming with separate hanks. So, whew!
I'm cheating a little though - I scanned the pattern and stuck the pictures in a pdf so I can use the highlight tool to pick out all the symbols I'm currently working on, makes life much easier! I wish such patterns were available digitally and there was a program that could do the job, but oh well!
This is a couple of weeks' work - I'm a World of Warcraft player, so I have raiding taking up my stitching time
I'm so glad there isn't too much white in this pattern though, it's done with 3 threads rather than 2, which means not only can I not use a single strand folded in two, the ends go very fluffy towards the end, urgh.Onward to his nice red hat and robes!
