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vanessanjf wrote:Yes it is a Maxine Gadd design. I do use pre-threaded needles. It would be a nightmare if not! Glad you all like it

I wondered where ive seen it before.

Nice start.

I have finished the first page! 15 more to go!

Looks great..good for you for sticking through all those color changes!!

ooooooooooo so pretty already can see the design developing.

Already a page is completed. Amazing work!!
Faith

I love how it's coming along...love those little flowers! You're doing great!

Excellent progress already.

Gosh, you're so fast! Great progress

The flowers are so detailed!

Nice work

Beautiful!! How are you finding the pattern? - with my Mystic Stitch I found it quite hard to look through all the letters & numbers, compared to symbols like with HAEDs....

Louise

Oh that's looking great laready, well done!

Lovely progress, well done for getting through all those colour changes. The little flowers look very detailed.

burgundyice wrote:Beautiful!! How are you finding the pattern? - with my Mystic Stitch I found it quite hard to look through all the letters & numbers, compared to symbols like with HAEDs....

Louise

Yes the pattern is a bit complicated with all the different numbers and letters for the colour changes. I have never done a HAED to know if they are easier to follow. I will be asking santa for some for xmas though

Wow what a great start a whole page completed.

vanessanjf wrote:

burgundyice wrote:Beautiful!! How are you finding the pattern? - with my Mystic Stitch I found it quite hard to look through all the letters & numbers, compared to symbols like with HAEDs....

Louise

Yes the pattern is a bit complicated with all the different numbers and letters for the colour changes. I have never done a HAED to know if they are easier to follow. I will be asking santa for some for xmas though

HAEDs use symbols rather than letters - so a black circle, black square, cross, arrow etc. Plus they often use smaller, lighter symbols for lighter colours and dark solid symbols for dark colours.... I definitely prefer their symbols to Mystic Stitch letters!

Louise

Thanks for all your encouragement. I have nearly finished page 2. Will have another photo soon. I will be glad when all the flowers in her hair are complete as there are so many colour changes. It really slows you down. I guess the HAED must be like that?

Thats such a wonderful design and a great start!

Yes HAED´s are like that, it slows you down, but it looks so lovely in the end, it´s really worth it!