HAED Starry Starry Night - Page One

I've finally finished the first page of my first HAED. I confess it's been quite a challenge and I didn't think I'd make it. I now have 13 more pages of pure confetti hell! I feel very accomplished for having gotten this far, and it sure looks great!

HAED Starry Starry Night

I've been working on this every other week, and very slowly (VERY slowly) it's been taking shape. Here's my current progress.

Garden of Miracles

I got this leaflet by Sandi Gore Evans on a sale and thought it was so cute it was the perfect chance to re-learn how to work on evenweave. So I purchased some 28ct Jobelan and made a start on the first of  two lovely designs.

August 27th, 2011

HAED Starry Starry Night

This year I joined the forum "Crossstitchforum.com" and among getting a lot of encouragement to stashing up, working on rotation, meeting a lot of wonderful stitchers and drooling over other people's WIPs, I learned about the site Heaven and Earth Designs, which takes cross stitching to a whole new level.

Like many before and many after me, I've fallen for the idea of these massive charts, and started one myself. I picked Van Gogh's Starry Starry Night, knowing it will most likely take me years to finish.

I made a start on it and as of today, here's what I have done. I'm stitching it on 25ct Antique White Lugana, 2 x1 tent stitches, with DMC floss.

Taste of Mediterranean

When my mom was visiting me we went to Michael's together and she ended up giving me this Dimensions Kit as gift. I thought it was so lovely I ended up working on it immediately and got it done in no time (for my standards). I started this right after I finished the Geisha.

May 8th, 2011

May 11th, 2011

May 26th, 2011

May 29th, 2011

And the process of adding background and back stitch

June 26th, 2011

July 5th, 2011

I can't wait to get this one framed!

Misaki Geisha

This is the first of two Maia charts I inherited from a friend of my mom's, they were originally part of a kit but the materials had already been used. I had planned on doing them as a tapestry, using wool and going really big with it, but simplifying the pattern, but I scraped that idea. 

What I decided to do instead, was making it bigger and simpler while staying with the Anchor colors listed in the chart. So I went with white Aida 11 ct, and stitched it without the 1/4 stitches, and ignored most of the back stitching. I also added 30 stitches to the width of the project, to fit the frame size I wanted. 

Misaki is the first of the two Geishas, and I worked on her on and off from February 2010 to . Here's her progress over time.

April 16th, 2010

April 21st, 2010

July 20th, 2010

May 6th, 2011

Three Little Pigs

My marriage plans were a little weird, as I was going through an immigration process that would give me the proper visa to move from Brazil to Puerto Rico, to be able to get married to my Luis. In that process I had to spend a month in my brother's house, in preparation for the interview that would take place in Rio de Janeiro (at that point in time I was living in my parent's farm in the Amazon). During that month I decided to stitch this series of cute pigs. 

I did the trio with the fence in a matter of days, but the other two ended up being a project for after I got married. I finished the watermelon pigs last (about 2 years ago) and now they're all sharing wall space.