Tab's HAED - "Yellow Haired Witch"

[TabLVT]

My very first HAED! "Yellow Haired Witch" is a quick stitch design, but I chose it because it reminds me of me.

I spent all evening last night preparing my threads onto the bobbins, and cutting and gridding my fabric. I gridded the whole thing so I can determine where in the center of the fabric to start.

The finished piece will be 175w x 243h (stitches), or 7"w x 9 5/8"h. My fabric is 25ct evenweave, cut into a 15"w x 18"h piece. Gridded with an embroidery pen (washes out with water).

Here are a couple photos of my gridded fabric. I put a quarter on it for scale.





Now I just have to anchor it to the scroll frame and I'll be ready to rock!

[coffee_freak]

can't wait to see!! i have to get my castle and sampler done before I start mine too! I'll stitch through you

[ally]

wow
alot of work and u`ve not started it yet .
and heres me wanting to do a HAED.
erm erm

[Slinky]

Aha!! Another HAED!! *Rubs hands together with glee*

Great choice of design, I shall enjoy watching this develop.

[Rose]

Wonderful and so much work just gridding the fabric. The picture is great I love her hugging the kitties.

[TabLVT]

Holy tiny stitches, Batman!

I just put about an hour into it and WOW... I think I'm going to be blind by the end of this thing, LOL

[kimkat_tkl]

Spend another couple of hours on it and 14ct will look massive! I've found that my eyes have adjusted to 25ct so it doesn't look tiny anymore.

[~threadbear~]

I went from a project on either 32 or 30ct (can't remember now) to 14 again and Kimkats right, the stitches seemed massive!
You'll soon get used to the size of this.

[charmagne_capalad]

Beautiful design! Looking forward to seeing your first update once you start xstitching!

[Pengwenn]

Have you decided if you're doing full crosses or tent stitches? When I look at the picture blown up I can see the holes, but I don't think I could see them otherwise. I have all the supplies for my HAED but I think I got 20ct fabric which is the smallest I can get while still seeing the holes. I promised myself that I wouldn't start my HAED until I was at least 50% done with my balloons. I'm only about 15-18% now.

[K1nS]

wow! I am really looking forward to watching this one grow

[Jenny-M]

Such a fantastic design I it!! Im also doing a quick Stitch but Im not getting it done very quickly Cant wait to see your progress!!

[TabLVT]

Have you decided if you're doing full crosses or tent stitches?

hmmm To be honest, I don't even know what tent stitches are! So it'll all be full crosses, I guess...

I like having the gridding - it makes the stitching progress seem faster. Plus its easy to keep on track. I'll take a pic sometime this weekend when I have a little more done

[MeganAmyH]

D'oh! Remind me and I'll bring stuff to show you tent stitch, as well as a couple of nifty tricks I should have mentioned before *blush*

[TabLVT]

ok, here it is at 5 hrs 30 mins.





I feel like the blocks make the stitching go faster - or at least it seems that way. It's a lot of fun so far, and my eyes are finally getting used to the miniscule stitches...

Although, I must say.... I HATE working with metallics! ugh what a pain in the...

[charmagne_capalad]

Lovely progress!

[Busy_B]

Great start!

[Jenny-M]

looking great How many strands of the metalic are you using? I only use one strand-gives good coverage but is abit easier to use....might help!!

[burgundyice]

Coming along nicely, what neat stitches and gridding too!
I love to see other people's HAEDs coming along, I think everyone should do one

Louise

[TabLVT]

I did another 3 hrs last night, so I'll have to take another photo soon!

How many strands of the metalic are you using? I only use one strand-gives good coverage but is abit easier to use....might help!!

Well, the pattern said to use 2 strands, but I couldn't figure out how to separate them - it was becoming a royal pain in the neck, so I just decided to use the whole thing, lol.