I've settled down to HAED-ing quite nicely over the past week or so. Midway through the 2nd week or so, I started to feel oh-so-bored of doing nothing but HAED all the time. I really needed something to take my mind off the fact that I was sewing and sewing, and still seeing no picture! On the other hand, I didn't want to do anything too big, otherwise Eel would get a major advantage over me.

Well, I picked a SanMan SAL to do. Every week, a new alphabet will be released, and the designs are really tiny, so it takes a few hours to do one. That's a good break for me, and I feel refreshed after doing one of those designs. So far, A - C have been released, and D should be out tomorrow. You can check out pictures of my progress thus far at my blog.

As for my HAED, I finished page 1 last weekend. I really had a sense of achievement after finishing the page, it looked so nice and squarey! OK, not really squarey...Before I began the HAED, I did some research to see how other people sewed their HAEDs. I found the strangest photos with threads dangling all over, and this technique was called parking the threads. I wondered why on earth people would do that, and resolved that mine would be nice and neat.

Well, just look at my picture!


See the threads at the top?!? I think I'm beginning to understand why people do it. The page / square is finished at that point, but the same colours are used in the line above. I don't want to keep starting and stopping, that'd be really time consuming, so I just left it there.

OK, to be honest, it is starting to kind of annoy me though. They just keep dangling all over the place! It used to be a lot worse, but I already finished off the remaining parts on the next page. So, you could say that I'm doing the page to the side AND to the top at the same time. I'm mainly concentrating on moving to the side, but I'll probably finish up the threads at the top by the time the next update comes.

Picture wise, it seems that I may be reaching a teeny part of the picture at the bottom of the page that I'm currently working on. Hooray, progress!