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I think it is looking very good. As I said before, I admire your stitching on the black fabric. Glad that you are getting used to it. I don't see anything that looks rough and I'm sure no one but you can. And now that you have been properly introduced to Mr. , I hope he stays away.

Carole

It's looking very impressive! Wonderful work!
Faith

It's looking great to me. You're working on black fabric. A challenge at the best of times.
You deserve a lot of !!!

Looking good!! I can start to see the howling wolf

Thanks for all the lovely comments.....I look around this forum and it makes me feel sad because everyone is so fast.
This project has a special meaning for me and I want to get it done so I can move on and stop thinking about the recipient of the gift
I make mistakes....lol, find the large amount of colour changes a challenge as well as the black aida.....any tips anyone?

I wouldn't worry about stitching quickly. When there are lots of color changes it just slows you down. Some of mine go fast because there are large blocks of color and sometimes it takes forever. If you are having to rethread every time you change a color that may be slowing you down. I keep each of my colors threaded so that does make it faster if there is a lot of confetti. For big projects (like HAEDs or Teresa Wentzler for eg) it does mean a lot of needles and you need something to keep them straight. I use the plastic bobbin storage boxes but there are needleholder cards needleholder cards like this one. You may already have a system that works for you. I think you are doing a great job.

Carole

Thanks Carole, I keep my needles threaded on the bobbins to save time already!

Thanks anyway though, I'll get there!

lucyanna118 wrote:If I'm honest it's not the best work I've ever done........the centre looks as rough as old boots.....though I'm hoping it won't be as noticeable as time goes on and it grows......it's very hard getting used to stitching on black and I wasn't prepared for how much of a challenge it would be......I would like to start again now I've gotten more used to it.....but NO WAY! lol.

Thanks for enlightening me, Mr. Froggy normally visits after the rose wine has taken over the stitching......ROFL!

Artists/stitchers are their own worst critics. I think it looks terrific!

So here is my update.....I'm really getting into it now and quite pleased with it so far, plan to have it ready by august....it's took me almost a month to do the 1st page.....theres 9 pages, and they are not all full pages, plus I'm now used to stitching on black, which helps! So I think I'm pretty much on track! I want the 1st page completed by the end of the day!

P.s Mr. has stayed away this week! A sign of better times!!!!!

Glad to hear the frog took a hiatus! It's looking wonderful!!!!
Faith

Looking good. I'm please that you are getting along much better with stitiching on the black fabric. Hopefully Mr will stay away.

This is looking really good. I'm glad that you have gotten used to working on the black fabric. That ought to speed up your stitching too, now that you have a deadline. And I'm glad to hear that Mr. has gone on vacation. No need to be entertaining him at all!

Carole

This an awesome picture. I love the affect on black and your doing really well!

beautiful update! You've made wonderful progress on this!

Hooray for no frog and glad to hear you're back on your schedule. to be done well before August!

Great work

Here's the first page completed! I planned to finish it Sunday night.....but it didn't happen, then I was out Monday night. So got this done last night and about to start the next page....... Really loving it now....it may be to hard to give away