Well, here are the first pictures for my HAED. This chart calls for 90 colours, so there is a god awful amount of colour switching happening here. I wanted to do tent stitches, but that looks hideous on 20 count fabric, so I ended up doing 1x1 cross stitches, which gives a very pleasing coverage.
This is the picture of the HAED design, taken from the website.
In this picture, you can see my my floss, sorted and cut into 18" lengths. I need multiple skeins of black and peach floss, which is why you see those two laid in uncut bundles. I used orange cotton sewing thread to grid my fabric. The edges of the canvas are finished with FrayChek, but because I was feeling paranoid, I went ahead and hemmed the edges.
In this picture you can see my overall progress. I like to work in colour blocks, and then fill in the confetti by anchoring onto existing stitches. I tried the parking method, but it drove me nuts and was promptly abandoned. (In the bottom right of the photo, you can see my big toe.
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In this picture, you can see a close up of my most worked area. It is the tree trunk and bushes in the top corner of the HAED.
In this picture, you will see that I have started to work on Oliana's face. Right now she looks like a toddler with liquorish on her few existing teeth. Hopefully she'll look better once I've filled in the confetti stitches.
In this picture, you can see a close up of the trees on the top left corner. Again, I have a lot of work to do on this part.
Lastly, in this picture you will see that I have started working on the otter. Right now it just looks like a brown blob.
Well, there you have it! My progress thus far on my first HAED! I'm off to do some more stitching...
I love Hannah Lynn's art and have Butterfly Keeper on my wish list 
