Queen of Hearts HAED - she's finished!!! - PHOTOS ADDED!

[Sarah Gixxer]

Haha, fancy having all those dreams about Queenie!

I must confess I have dreamed about stitching. I can't remember the exact dreams but there have been times when I have woken up in the morning absolutely desperate to start doing some stitching because I was dreaming I'd done some!

[burgundyice]

Back from my week off - although we were out & about quite a bit for the first half and then I was under the weather the last couple of days, I still managed a couple of pages Here's the next update pic...



Although it's a whole page on from the last one, the scale of it's so big now that it probably doesn't look much different..!

Louise

[Sarah Gixxer]

Lovely to see another update, Louise, she's looking amazing and not far to go now!

Sorry to hear you've been a bit under the weather though.

[Mabel Figworthy]

Does look different, too -- of course we can tell! And she's looking soo beautiful!

[agi]

She is lovely! Great progress.
I hope you feel better now.

[Vani]

She is turning out beautifully. Great work.

[kazzi29]

wow 2 whole pages in a week thats something to be proud of well done!

[meerkat]

She is beautiful,and lovely stitching. I love watching HAED's appearing.

[vanessanjf]

That is so beautiful. I love it Well done! cant wait to see it finished

[kerbear879]

I love how you say it all nonchalantly "oh I managed a few pages" You are amazing at your speediness..I love it!! And I love your Queenie!

[alinna]

Looks beautiful! Tempted to pick up this HAED now...

[Lizzy]

She is beautiful!!!

[Busy_B]

[charmagne_capalad]

Lovely!

[Cecilia]

Great progress

[nicgoss]

Wow! You are SOOOO nearly there now! Feel excited for you!

[JessicaLeigh]

Absolutely wonderful progress! She's coming along beautifully!!

[burgundyice]

Well, you get another picture in return for the lovely comments and encouragement!!



Halloween was quite eventful for my stitching for a couple of reasons..... I stayed up reeeaally late on Friday night as I'd just completed another row of pages, meaning that the next row was the final row of full pages! There's also another row of partial pages under that, but once I looked at them again they looked much less than I'd been thinking (they're about 20% of a full page) so I decided I'm working on the two together, the full page and the part page beneath it, making it in effect only one row left to do, and I stayed up late to reach the very bottom of the design!!!!
So I can see just how big she'll really be now, and can trim off the bottom edge of the fabric (is it called a selve edge or something like that?) which will then need overstitching to match the rest of the design. No, I haven't thought about framing, would be doing it myself, not sure whether to try a canvas-type thing (I don't really want it covered by glass as I can't help but think it makes the stitching harder to see and it must lose some of its texture...? hmmmm.

The other creepy Halloween thing that happened was my Daylight bulb went (I'd had it since New Year, so it's lasted a fair while) - well, it kind of fizzled and crackled and then went!! So I'm going to try a regular bulb just to see if the fitting still works before getting a new Daylight bulb, otherwise might have to look for a new lamp......

Louise

[Mabel Figworthy]

You've made really incredible progress, she is so very nearly complete now !

[Nachstenliebe]

Holy cow. You're really at the finish line! It's amazing!!!!
Faith