Froggy Frog World 3 rows

Yeah!! Three (thirty) rows done. 9000 stitches! The last little bit was a hard slog but it ended up being worth it, finished it this morning. I'm now happily working on my angel, about 250 stitches tonight. I'm hoping to get all the work on the left wing for this 10x10 row done tonight, about 100 stitches more, and the hopefully tomorrow I'll get to work on (and finish) her face. It will be good to actually see her whole face... my mum's comment tonight was "ooh, doesn't look like cats ears anymore." I think that's a good thing?
Sorry the photo's a little dull, I tried a different technique and i'm not sure if it was worth it or not.


Stats:
Started: 20 October 2006
Total Stitches: 141,300
Stitches Done:

• 23/10/06 - 1600
• 10/11/06 - 3008
• 17/11/06 - 4726
• 24/11/06 - 5613
• 1/12/06 - 7603
• 5/12/06 - 9000
  

Froggy Frog World Week 5

Well, I haven't actually done any stitching since wednesday because life got in the way. But here's the update anyway. The total of stitches this week is rather awesome - just a bit over 2000 stitches in five days!


Stats:
Started: 20 October 2006
Total Stitches: 141,300
Stitches Done:

• 23/10/06 - 1600
• 10/11/06 - 3008
• 17/11/06 - 4726
• 24/11/06 - 5613
• 1/12/06 - 7603
  

Froggy Frog World Week 3

Here it is again, posting late because for some reason I've had no motivation to stitch all weekend. Which I don't understand, but oh well. Sometimes it's just like that. I've started a bit more on the big purple flower, and the fronds left of the middle are starting to be a bit more defined which is nice. It still looks like a lot of nothing though, so I'm going to be glad when I get a bit more in! This lot of rows of ten has a few fronds of that purple flower in it, so at least it will add a bit more colour, but it's still just glitter thread for the majority. Not that there's really anything wrong with that - except the expense!


And here's a closeup of the only really interesting part so far, all these soft colours that make up those fronds that you can see coming out. It takes a lot longer to really see anything on this than on a QS, but for the effect it creates it's very, very worth it. Hopefully there will really be something to see next time I post a picture of it!

It's a Froggy Frog World - (c) Jody Bergsma & HAED
Stats:
Started: 20 October 2006
Total Stitches: 141,300
Stitches Done:

• 23/10/06 - 1600
• 10/11/06 - 3008
• 17/11/06 - 4726
  

Froggy Frog World - 10 rows

I just had to post a picture - It's now 10 rows across the entire piece, as well as a few extra 10x10 squares and assorted bits and pieces. The important thing is the 10 row bit, as I'm now determined to be a bit more logical about my 'plan of attack'.

This next row is the beginning of a huge flower that takes up most of two pages, so it should be fun to have a bit of variety. Lots of lovely purples, and glitter thread on the flower too! which seems a little odd, but I'm sure it will look gorgeous.

One final note - I think I need to take out shares in DMC's light effects...10 rows in and I've already used more than half a skein of it!

Froggy Frog World week 2

Here are the frogs - there's actually a bit more to the glitter on the right but there isn't much there and it got cut off in the photo. See all the glitter?? I'm actually vaguely enjoying the glitter on this, I think because it's in large slabs rather than annoying bits and pieces (a la Periwinkle)
I love these pictures because they make me stand back properly and look at the picture rather than the stitches - you can see the bits and pieces of the colour coming together.


And here's a closeup of that corner section that's 3 10x10 blocks deep

It's a Froggy Frog World - (c) Jody Bergsma & HAED
Stats:
Started: 20 October 2006
Total Stitches: 141,300
Stitches Done:

• 23/10/06 - 1600
• 10/11/06 - 3008
  

Why do I keep picking glittery charts?

5,300 stitches of 8000 (roughly) for this page in, but the rest is confetti, which is alright with a few nice block-ey bits as well to even it out - no such luck, or worse yet GLITTER! I think I need to take out shares in DMC's metallics or kreinik, given I keep buying (and starting) charts with masses of the stuff in them. Why oh why oh why...

In happier news I bought the few threads I was missing and filled in all those holes, so it's a much more polished and rich look and the leaves look beautiful. And I worked down that side that I'd been leaving for goodness knows what reason and gave her some cheek, more hair and a bit of an eye! And that eye just gives me hope.

I'll post a picture tomorrow, showing that I've got all of the fairy done for this page (yay!) and a little more for the next page, due to my obsession with not breaking rows of colour that continue over the page.

Weirdly enough I'm starting to miss my angel, and all the solid colour dmc and lack of expanses of glitter. And I've got another glittery project to get through before I get to her...maybe I should rethink my rotation. Just kidding, but I'll be glad to get through the big blocks of glitter on the frogs too. At least they have more colour than glitter.

Speaking of glitter and frogs, I'm thinking of "frogging" (ha, ha) the glitter on them...I don't like the tension that I got with it and I'm thinking I might use kreinik after all, it's less "white" than the dmc I'm using. The picture I took after the SAL is down the page...anyone that reads this (if there is anyone!) what do you think?

Periwinkle Wk 3 and Frogs after SAL

Here's the beautiful periwinkle fae, so very close to half a page done. I got distracted from posting up the update on Friday by a New Start SAL on the HAED BB and forgot entirely, so I'm posting it today, and will post my usual Friday update this week as well. My Frogs have 1600 stitches done now, two rows of 10x10 blocks on a page, and lots of sparkle thread, not bad for a weekend, and I'll post a picture of that here as well. It's a shame to have to put them away for a while, but the fairy will have a page done on her soon, and then I'll pick them up again. They look rather lovely - well the background stuff that I've done does anyway! It'll be another three pages after this one before I see frog, but I can wait. The colours are very soft, and I didn't like the look of the sparkle next to the soft colours at first, but it looks amazing from a distance and passable from close up (right under my nose, where I stitch!) now so that's okay. I'm looking forward to not having the huge expanses of glitter thread to stitch soon, it's just a bit much to do massive amounts.


Periwinkle Fae - (c) Nadia Tate & HAED
Stats:
Started: 29 September 2006
Total Stitches: 31,350
Stitches Done:

• 6/10/06 - 1503
• 13/10/06 - 2655
• 20/10/06 - 3688

It's a Froggy Frog World - (c) Jody Bergsma & HAED
Stats:
Started: 20 October 2006
Total Stitches: 141,300
Stitches Done:

• 23/10/06 - 1600