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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!

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

Oh my that is terrific!!!!!

great update... over half done

Looks great!!! Such beautiful stitching!

too beautiful for words

This is really amazing!

Oh, wow!! Absolutely beautiful!!

The dancers look gorgeous, great progress!

Wow, looks gorgeous!

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.

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

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

Sally

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!

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

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.

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.

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

Congrats on the milestone!