Well, I've had 2 days to play with the HAEDs on different fabric...
While I love doing tent stitch with 2 strands on 25 ct (boy is that fast!) it gave me a headache and I had to quit! Yesterday when i tried again there was frogging to do so that was discouraging. However, I dont have a light nor a magnifyer so I'm sure that's a huge factor & it's top of my list to get one now lol. So I havent given up on the 25ct just yet, but Echos of Autumn is gonna haveta be on standby.
The 18ct Davosa is wonderful to work with, using 2 strands and doing full crosses. Gypsy Firefly Mini is on this and so far working on tree and sky, but I'm loving how this one is easy to manage.
I also got some 20ct Valerie fabric for Fairy Ball, and in the end decided to use tent stitch in 3 strands. This is probably gonna eat up alot of floss lol, but I love how fast tenting works up. I dont plan on doing all the background to the right of the fairy anyway.
For gridding I used a soluble quilting pen and just dotted the intersections so i could get stitching. And Echos was already started when I gridded hence the frogging discovery. So in light of that I'll be gridding HAEDs from now on lol....
Pics to follow soon as I have any progress to show
Friday, December 9, 2011
An update
Posted by Kate at 7:28 AM
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2 comments:
Looking forward to seeing the pics and how you get on.
I never do gridding except HAED, but with them it is an absolute must. Even with gridding I tend to make mistakes, but fortunately I recognise them quickly. Since I am in my first HAED, I wrote 2 posts about my experiences, you can check my blog for them!
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