Our Friends' HAED SAL: Santa's List

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Still Here

I had a long dry spell where I did not stitch much, but I am happily back with the needle again. Here are updates for two of my HAED WIPs.

First is Fairy Village by Lisa Victoria:

The next is Santa's List by Ruth Sanderson:

I have immensely enjoyed looking at everyone's progress pictures. They are all very inspiring. I hope everyone has a great stitching week.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Thanks Cindy and Wendy for setting up this blog site. It looks fantastic! My name is Laura and I have been cross stitching for about 25 years and I have been married for 21 years. I have two children, ages 15 and 12, and two big dogs :-) I love many of the HAED designs and have about 3 of them started. I stitch these designs using the Parking Method. The one I am working on right now is Santa's List by Ruth Sanderson. I have finished the first page and this is 7,840 stitches out of 115,600, so I have completed 6.8% of it. Here is my latest picture:

Tutorials

How to Carry Threads
This is really easy...it takes a while to get used to though....and your back will look terrible...this you will have to live with...One thing...You will be working your 10 x 10 grids in colums...it makes it easier...
1. Start with a 10 x 10 grid..
2. Find your first symbol...and stitch all of that symbol in your 10 x 10 grid....When finished...
3. Find the same symbol on the 10 x 10 grid below it...take your needle and bring your thread up like you are going to make the first 1/2 of the X ...but don't do it...just unthread your needle and lay the thread down..
4. Go back to the first grid you were working on...and stitch the next symbol the same way....when finished bring your thread down....
5. continue each symbol until your first 10 x 10 grid is finished....
6. start the next 10 x 10 grid ....you should have thread there already for you to pick up and stitch...
Posted by Vickie 3/7/2009

Tent Stitching (Wikipedia)
Tent stitch variants
There are three types of tent stitch, all producing the same appearance on the front of the canvas but each worked in a slightly different way and having particular characteristics, uses, benefits and drawbacks. These variants of tent stitch are known as basketweave, continental and half cross tent stitches:
Basketweave tent stitch - The basketweave form of tent stitch is worked in diagonal rows up and down the canvas. The yarn on the back of the canvas has a typical basketweave appearance, with alternating horizontal and vertical stitches. Basketweave is the best stitch to use for covering large areas of canvas as it does not distort the canvas as the other two forms of tent stitch do.
Continental tent stitch - Continental stitch is worked horizontally or vertically across the canvas. On the back of the work, the stitches appear diagonally across two threads. This method uses more yarn than half cross stitch tent stitch but is more hardwearing.
Half cross tent stitch - Half cross stitch is worked horizontally or vertically across the canvas. On the back of the work, the stitch appears vertical or horizontal, not diagonal, and crosses only one thread. This method uses less yarn than other stitches but is not very durable as coverage on the back of the canvas is a little thin.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Still Here

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Laura's Introduction