Our Friends' HAED SAL: Wendy's progress 04/23/09

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Wendy's progress 04/23/09

Hi my dear friends,

I just enjoyed watching all of your wonderful progresses. This is such a wonderful community here and I enjoy all of your wonderful friendship. Keep up the good work. I have been stitching all week on my HAED, I mostly stitch every evening. I did forget all about my other WIP's last week. Today is a rainy day here, so I'm planning to enjoy a relaxing day and do a lot of stitching on my HAED.

So here is my progress.

Before

After

Wishing you all a wonderful Sunday and a lovely week.

Hugs,
Wendy

13 comments:

Gabi said...: Beautiful progress Wendy. It's so lovely to see your Land of Enchantment growing.; April 26, 2009 at 1:42 AM
http://ingridsknitting.blogspot.be/ said...: Wendy WOW what a great progress ,and you Land of Enchantment is already beautiful and this design has been one of my favorites .... sigh ... there are so many I love it. I am so curious to see your Land of Enchantment to grow! Have a nice weekend to!; April 26, 2009 at 3:29 AM
Mich said...: I can see that you only stitched on this one this week, what a progress !!!

One should almost be glad when it rains because then there is much time to do creative stuff ;-)); April 26, 2009 at 4:47 AM
Jan said...: Rainy days are the best for stitching. Completely guilt-free! Love the Land of Enchantment.; April 26, 2009 at 6:20 AM
Vickie said...: Fabulous progress...the colors are amazing.; April 26, 2009 at 6:42 AM
Yvonne said...: A huge progress. The colours look wonderful and your stitching is really neat.; April 26, 2009 at 7:05 AM
Cindy F. said...: Your needles are smoking hot!
Beautiful progress Wendy!; April 26, 2009 at 7:17 AM
Yoyo said...: Great progress Wendy. Love those rainy days for stitching.; April 26, 2009 at 10:42 AM
Marie said...: Hello Wendy !
What a beautiful progress ! You worked hard ! Now you will hear the sound of the horn calling you... it's so lovely ! It really really takes shape, and I'm glad to see the land of enchantment coming to life.

Have a nice week !!; April 26, 2009 at 11:03 PM
Annie Bee said...: Rainy days are the best excuse for stitching you are really making great progress on this.; April 27, 2009 at 2:44 AM
Aussie Stitcher said...: It is looking wonderful, well done.; April 27, 2009 at 4:14 AM
Sabine S. said...: I finally made it over to HAED to look up your design. Oh I can't wait for you to get out of the dark colors and into the rest of the "stories"! Great progress!
Sabine; April 28, 2009 at 9:50 AM
Carolyn NC said...: Great progress!; April 29, 2009 at 6:55 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.