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Great work and you can see all of the white if you know what to look for.

It's absolutely gorgeus!

It is a funny thing, how we do the same design in completely different way. You stick with the pages when I'm spreading it along with the colours

This is lovely, and lovely work

That's a lot of progress, well done!

Good progress and it looks great

Thanks for all the kind comments - I really appreciate you taking the time to reply.

I have made a start on page 2 which asides some hair in the top corner is mainly a huge page of white with an eye in the middle. Would love to do a bit more but its a nice day so better go outside for a while with DD and dog.
K x

Nina wrote:It's absolutely gorgeus!

It is a funny thing, how we do the same design in completely different way. You stick with the pages when I'm spreading it along with the colours

Hi Nina ~
I agree, its nice to see them done differently and going in different directions mean we both get a sneaky preview of the stitched look as opposed to the actual picture.

As this is the first cross stitch I have done in years and by far the largest thing I have ever done I think I am best sticking to one page at a time. I have made a few counting errors even doing that, so I dread to think if I carried one colour along a couple of pages and then discovered it was wrong I would be devastated!

K x

lots of wonderful progress!!!

great progress

Lovely project and great progress

its coming along beautifully, well done

Great progress already.

HELP!!!
Need a bit of advice and I am sure you lovely people are the ones to help.
On Page 2 as previously described is the eye ~ I stitched the white all round and when I went to do the eyebrow discovered I am infact a row lower than I should be There are two solutions I either unpick all the work I have done - which is about 1000 stitches or place the eye one row lower. There are a few rows of slightly off white under the eye before going on to the white of the face so I thought I could sacrifice one row to allow me to place the eye without unpicking.
As the eye is isolated on her face it wont affect the rest of the picture but will it be noticeable and am I suggesting sacrilege of my precious piece?

Please help?

K x

I have to say, my English isn't that great that I fully understood. So I'm just checking, are you going to skip one row under her eye? Or which is the exact row?

It's rather up to you. It's certainly not sacrilege but if it's going to bug you every time you look at it though, maybe you should frog. Given the time you are going to spend on this project you need to be happy with it. You wouldn't want to feel unhappy or annoyed with it at the end purely because of this. If it's not going to bug you though, then you could always adjust the pattern and keep going.

One further thought, do you have to frog the whole 1,000 stitches? Often it's possible just to cut in the affected area and fasten off the ends, leaving you with a much smaller area to restitch. Might be a quicker solution.

If the choice was between frogging 1000 stitches or placing the eye one row lower, I know what I'd do -- lower the eye! As it is such a big design, one row is such a tiny fraction of its total height that surely it won't be noticeable?

if it were me i would unpick/frog it id rather undo 1000 stitches than do all that work and find it looks slightly off even if your the only one that knows its wrong it could bug you good luck whatever you decide its a stunning design and you have done really well so far

I have left the stitch wrong an then later found that in making the change I had to come back and frog alot more because even one off here moves it even further off later on down the line. But it really is up to you.

It's a personal thing.
I've done both ways in the past. I've gone back and redone it all correctly and I've also altered to fit the mistake.
I think (and this is only me personally) in the case of something this big, I'd redo it, incase it does as Rose says and causes more problems later, plus you'll always know it's there and with it being just the one eye in this, it's quite a central focus on this particular design. But that's only my opinion.

Whatever you decide, I'm sure it'll work out great.