Our Friends' HAED SAL: My First Post

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

My First Post

Well this is my first post on this blog, thanks to Cindy and Wendy for setting it up. Isn't it great to see so many wonderful designs?

I have currently four HAED wips, two which I have worked on recently, and two, not so recently but I refuse to call them UFO's as I fully intend to finish them one day.

The two that I am working on at the moment are Faery Tales and Land of Enchantment. I don't
have any wip pictures of Land of Enchantment, but I can share a couple of Faery Tales.

I am enjoying working on this so much that nothing else is getting much attention. When I ordered this I got the large size graph, and it has 60 pages. So far I have completed 9.

The two designs that haven't been stitched on for some time are:

Bubbles, and

Gypsy Rose.

Seeing their finished pictures makes me want to get them out to stitch on them, not entirely a bad thing!!!

Anyway, must go and read some blogs, I do read this one when ever it comes up on my bloglines, which is often with how many posts get put on it, and I just love seeing all the wonderful progress that everyone is making, keep it up ladies, we will all have finishes one day.

14 comments:

Sue in N. Va said...: Welcome! Fairy Tales is one of my favorite of his charts. There's so much to see as you've already found out! You've got so much done! Lovely!!; April 21, 2009 at 5:39 AM
Wendy said...: Wow, this is a wonderful progress on your HAED! I have seen it already on your blog too;)

I'm also working on Land of Enchantment. It is such a wonderful design too work on.

It is indeed nice to eachother progresses, it makes you want to stitch more , don't you think ?; April 21, 2009 at 5:56 AM
Caroline said...: Wonderful designs - Welcome to the group!; April 21, 2009 at 7:28 AM
CathE said...: Fairy Tales is looking fantastic. There is so much detail, no wonder you can't put it down.; April 21, 2009 at 8:18 AM
Carolyn NC said...: They look great! Love the Fairy Tales - such a cool design.; April 21, 2009 at 8:33 AM
Gabi said...: Your WIP's are looking gorgeous. Will be fun to watch them grow; April 21, 2009 at 8:52 AM
Cindy F. said...: Absolutely beautiful stitching on your wip!! It's incredible:) We're so happy you've joined our group and shared you're beautiful work with us! Love your design choices!!; April 21, 2009 at 9:23 AM
jessneal said...: your progress looks wonderful on fairy tails. And I now want to dtitch Gypsy Rose.; April 21, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Jan said...: Love the Faery Tales. I'm looking forward to seeing your progress on all your WIPs.; April 21, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Annie Bee said...: What a great job of stitching you are doing and I agree that seeing all these beautiful pictures makes me not only want to stitch on mine but START a NEW one.; April 21, 2009 at 6:03 PM
Sabine S. said...: Fairy Tales is amazing!I love all the little scenes.
Sabine; April 22, 2009 at 9:10 AM
Maxine said...: Fantastic work on Faery Tales, I'm looking forward to seeing wip's of your other HAED's and will be pleased to see where you are on Bubbles as I'm also stitching this one :); April 22, 2009 at 1:45 PM
http://ingridsknitting.blogspot.be/ said...: welcome to the group and you have very beautiful designs chosen, I love fairy tales and others are also nice!; April 23, 2009 at 8:46 AM
Anne said...: I love the land of enchantment. Being originally from New Mexico helps with that too. You are certainly ambitious to start more than one of these at a time.; April 23, 2009 at 3:35 PM

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.