Well, the race has begun and I'm really starting to question, "Just what have we gotten ourselves into?" Though its only been 4 days, I still feel like I should've accomplished more. I knew I'd be slow, but due to the immense size of this, its going really slow! Firsly, the cloth is huge so moving my hand from front to back takes longer. I've started on the bottom left so its actually the easiest place for mamouvering my hand around. I can't imagine what it will be like when I'm stitching the top right sections.

Another mistake I made was to grid on the back. At the time, I was paranoid that if I was to grid on the front, it would be seen. But though 18ct cloth is not that fine, 2 strands still seem to be pretty good coverage so I should've just gridded on the front. I might take some time this weekend to do that, as trying to reference where I am from the back of the cloth is just screwing up my brain.

This morning, Sae and I compared notes while chatting on MSN at work. I told her that I had finished six 10x10 squares and three 5x10 squares, making my total stitches at 750. When I got home however, I looked over what I'd done and it was more. :D So far, I've done ten 10x10 squares and five 5x10 squares. So my actual total stitches is 1250. Here's what I've done. Can you see any pattern emerging yet?


Here's my page with the red marking what I've done. I also discovered that I don't actually have any highlighters at home. How sad. :(

So while I'm quite stoked that for the moment I'm ahead of Sae, the sight of the rest of the cloth is quite daunting:

How long will I maintain this tiny lead against Sae? Stay tuned for our next progress update!