Sarah's HMS Victory - FINISHED!!

[Dazbo666]

Looking really great - (I don't envy anyone having to work with squashed stitches)
Keep up the good work

[Vani]

It looks great Sarah! I agree, the detailing is wonderful!

[burgundyice]

Don't envy you doing the squashed stitches but it's looking really effective along the front of the ship!

Louise

[JessicaLeigh]

Looks great! I haven't actually attempted a project with squashed stitches, but I think it would be fun. At least for a bit.

[Sarah Gixxer]

I'm not minding doing the squashed stitches actually, they make it a bit different from the usual. They're mostly just in the hull of the ship.

It's the fractional stitches in the sea I'm not liking, I've never been very good at getting them perfect, even with the help of evenweave's useful extra hole in the middle.

[mauveme]

Lovely work, Detailing is great. (what are squashed stitches--I think I have an idea but!!)

[Lessa54]

This is looking lovely

[Mabel Figworthy]

Linda, squashed stitches are not square but rectangular, and take up the space of half a cross stitch -- so you can have to vertical ones or two horizontal ones making up a whole square.

like this:

[Lizzieh]

Sarah, don't you find it hard or confusing doing two projects in tent stitch and one in full cross stitch at the same time. I know the only times I have done little projects that have had tent stitch in my brain keeps making me complete the stitches and I find I end up having to unpick the top stitch!

Love the victory.

Liz

[burgundyice]

Sarah, don't you find it hard or confusing doing two projects in tent stitch and one in full cross stitch at the same time. I know the only times I have done little projects that have had tent stitch in my brain keeps making me complete the stitches and I find I end up having to unpick the top stitch!

I never thought about this! It must be confusing??!!

Louise

[coffee_freak]

[Lizzy]

I love the detail in this

[Lessa54]

Linda, squashed stitches are not square but rectangular, and take up the space of half a cross stitch -- so you can have to vertical ones or two horizontal ones making up a whole square.

like this:

Mabel, thanks for the explanation, I was feeling too - I've seen these before but by a different name, so all confusion now solved

[Nachstenliebe]

Mabel teaches me like 5 new things every day haha.
Faith

[Sarah Gixxer]

Thanks for the diagram, Mabel, I might have been able to explain the squashed stitches after a fashion, but it's much easier to actually see them.

As for my different projects - 2 HAEDs in tent stitch and then HMS Victory and Trojan in full crosses - I haven't really had any trouble going from one to the other. Each time I swop to a different one I seem to focus on that one and forget the others. The only thing I do find odd is when I've gone from stitching over 1 on 25 count to suddenly working on 14 count as the latter seems enormous. Then I go back to the 25 count and feel like I need binoculars!

[Busy_B]

[Sarah Gixxer]

Update time! This is the first page of the cross stitch completed. There's loads of backstitch and long stitch to do, but I'm leaving that until last.

[Mabel Figworthy]

It's gorgeous -- I keep being astonished by the attention to detail!

[charmagne_capalad]

Lots of progress here since I last had a look! Very lovely!

[Rose]

That is wonderful!!!!!