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Finished (finally) the first row. With this speed I will finish this piece in only few years...lol

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Althought I didn't stitch much at all lately, I grabbed my HAED last week and put some stitches in.

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Page 4 finished!!!! Which resulted in a major happy dance...lol

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Finally I found the time to work on Manhattan Wonderland again. And as always enjoying it.

Page 4 half done and I will keep this one my main focus for the rest of the week. Hopefully I'll can finish that page off.

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Finished page 3!!! And at this stage I simply refuse to look how much more pages to go. I don't look any further then pages 4 and 5...lol.

Everybody's work is so lovely. I admire all of them. Although I have at the moment not the time time for commenting. Life is pretty busy here with a sick family member and some other stuff.

Wishing everybody a great week

Gabi

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My update on Manhattan Wonderland. :)

I admired everyone's WIP and all look simply fantastic.

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Another update on Manhattan Wonderland. :)

And I'm admiring also all these most beautiful WIP's. They are all gorgeous and inspiring.

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Finished this week page 2 :))))))

Back in Manhattan!!!

After a long vacation I'm back in Manhattan. And love it!

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Due to family circumstances there wasn't much time lately to stitch on my HAED. I took it only once with me. Still loving stitching this chart and hopefully I will soon have more time to put more stitches in it.

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My weekly update :)



And I have a weird problem. No matter from what angle I look at it. I do see a line between page one and two. Asked my husband, and he does see that too. I never had that before. Does anyone know how to get rid of that line?

I don't really want to work over 2 pages :(

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My weekly update :)


Next to stitching I frogged all the Kreinik and replaced it with simple and plain white DMC B5200. And finally I could lean back and be happy with how the sky looks. That glitter just didn't seem to fit. For the snow I bought shiny Satin S5200. It will take ages anyway until I come to the snow...and who knows what opinion I will have by then about how to stitch the snow...lol.

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This week's update on Manhattan Wonderland. I didn't get really much done - this Thursday was rather busy here.

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Finally....page one finished. I started Thursday and didn't stop until I had that page done.
What concerns the Kreinik - I'm still not complete sure what to do. To be honest, as much as I do love glitter normally, it seems somehow out of place in the sky. I doubt it that the artist herself has glitter on the original painting. It just doesn't feel and looks right to me. I think I'll replace the Kreinik in the sky with white.
And not sure yet what I do with the glitter in the snow. I might leave that. It takes ages anyway until I'm in the position to make a decision about that. Who knows what opinion I'll have by the time I reach the pages where that comes up.

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My weekly update for Manhattan Wonderland. Got a bit more done on the first house. And I'm not too happy about the Kreinik Breid. I used Rainbow Gallerie Petite anyway, but that's pretty much the same stuff. I'm stitching with one thread over one. After reading on the HAED Yuku board that most only do a half stitch with the braid, I followed that advice. It looks weird to me. It's not only transparant...which would be ok, it's also less thick then the rest of the stitching. And I don't think I'm a fan of that combination. In the next page I'll make a full cross stitch. And no...I won't frog the braid. That could only go wrong. Besides, sky is not that regular...lol. IF it's visible that I used 2 different ways of applying the braid in the sky then I'll keep my face straight and insist it was charted that way!!!

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My weekly update of Manhattan Wonderland. The plan is to finish page one this month. :)

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This weeks picture of Manhattan Wonderland. Not really much progress because I only worked one evening on it.

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My weekly update on Manhattan Wonderland. This week I stitched 2 evenings on it.

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My 3rd evening of stitching on this piece. This is the first time I really do a SAL, because normally I don't like the idea of changing my stitching frame for just an evening. But for this SAL I do it - and enjoy it. Started looking forward during the week to the upcoming Thursday...lol. Anyway, here is my latest picture:

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My second update on Manhattan Wonderland. I didn't get much done, because I only stitch on it on Thursdays until "Coming to Water" is finished, which is a non HAED chart which I want to finish. Manhattan will then move up and take it's place and I will work more on it then once a week.

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