'The Dancing Class' SQ - kimkat_tkl FINISHED!

[kimkat_tkl]

Ever get a song stuck in your head - recently mine's been "Another One Bites The Dust" by Queen which is really appropriate as I finished another page!

68,607 stitches complete (56.45%) and only 9673 stitches until I complete this row of pages!

[Squirrel]

Wow Tracy that is awesome. You sure have come a long way with it and you are over the halfway point too.

Great progress and well done

Sally

[coffee_freak]

[Rose]

Oh my that is terrific!!!!!

[cgirlish]

great update... over half done

[tiffstitch]

Looks great!!! Such beautiful stitching!

[gyork]

too beautiful for words

[agi]

This is really amazing!

[ali-cat]

Oh, wow!! Absolutely beautiful!!

[Mabel Figworthy]

The dancers look gorgeous, great progress!

[Juel]

Wow, looks gorgeous!

[kimkat_tkl]

So no new piccies this post but I just had to share:

I find in a design there are obvious milestones - the end of pages, rows finished, 25% complete etc and then there are just some numbers that scream milestone like less than 100,000 stitches left (even if you've only done 21,540 stitches). Well last night I past one of the latter types of milestones - I put in my 71,541st stitch meaning that I now have less than 50,000 stitches to do . It also means that I have less than a complete page (7315 stitches) until I complete the 2nd row of pages.

[XstitchLB]

wow! beautiful work, great progress, can't wait to see the next update!

[Squirrel]

Great going Tracy, as you say its a special milestone. I admire the way you keep going with it.

Sally

[purvislets]

Congrats on hitting that milestone!

May I ask a dumb question? How does everyone keep such precise count of their stitches? Maybe it's because I stitch all over the place instead of section by section, but I can never even accurately guess!

[rcperryls]

I have just gone through this from beginning to end. What beautiful work you have done. And I'm glad to hear you are back dancing again also. I will also ask the question of "how do you keep the count of the stitches. I stitch sort of section by section, but sometimes I guess i move around a bit. I never even thought of counting stitches. I don't know if I would have the courage to start something if I knew I was dealing with 100,000.

Your work is so well done. You should be very proud of your progress so far.

Carole

[kimkat_tkl]

A lot of people guessimate their stitches on a page basis: say 77 stitches wide x 95 stitches high = 7315 stitches, 5 pages then gives 36 575 stitches complete.

Other completely insane people (me! ) use a spreadsheet that I update each day (see thumbnail) where in the top table I'll type the number of stitches I've done in each 10x10 square (eg =3+9+4*10+9 in one square will give me 61 out of 100 stitches complete) and the spreadsheet pretty much does the rest.

[Ketta]

It's looking really wonderful! I love how it looks like the painting itself. A few feet away and most people won't be able to tell the difference. I really love projects that capture that look so well.

[LadyS]

Great job! It's a stunning design. =)

[Mabel Figworthy]

Congrats on the milestone!