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I'm just about to start stitching on my first HAED. It's a quickstitch so I'm not expecting it to take too long.


It's 89 colours, a LOT of pink (strange choice of design for someone who isn't to crazy about pink, but what the hey).
I'm stitching it on 25 count white lugana, and have so far decided I LOVE evenweave!
I'm going to do the background in tent stitches, 2 over one, and the rest will be full crosses, 1 over 1.

Should have a picture update by the end of the week

very pretty!! It will be great to watch this come to life!!

What a great idea! I can't wait to see what she'll look like with the tented background!

That's a gorgeous piece. Can't wait to see the end result!

Beautiful design.

Really beautiful design!

very pretty cant wait to see how this one turns out

I always think "quick stitch" is a deceptive term when applied to a HAED...

It'll be interesting to see the combination of tent stitch and full cross stitch, it should add extra texture to it and contrast between background and figure. One tiny worry though, will it be possible to tell exactly which stitch is background and which is figure? With the shading and umpteen colours HAEDs often use it may not always be plain to see.

A beautiful design. I can't wait to see your progress

Very pretty design! Can't wait to see it develop.

What a very pretty and soulful design
Faith

i love this choice of design i keep thinking of getting this myself lol but i have way too many already keep up the great work cant wait to see progress picture

I've coloured the whole thing in and it's quite easy to see where the face and hair starts so hopefully shouldn't be a problem

I'll look forward to seeing this lovely design in stitches

Looking forward to seeing your progress on this one, it is so pretty

Pretty design. Look forward to seeing this one develop.

What a pretty design

I had hoped that I'd have more to show you in my first picture, but fate (and stupidity) decided other wise. I've just finished frogging a whole section because I got two symbols mixed up and so used the wrong colour, stupid stupid stupid!

You can sort of see in the pic where it's been frogged as once I frogged I could not be bothered to remove the fibers , will have to wait till tomorrow.

So enough about my uselessness, here is my first pic.


Also wanted to say, I LOVE LOVE LOVE working on evenweave!

Sorry about the frogging but you have made great progress and it looks lovely

Sorry you had to unpick a whole section, but it's looking very nice!