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
Looking forward to seeing the pics and how you get on.
ReplyDeleteI 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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