Our original plan was to update the blog every two weeks, because otherwise, the progress would look so little that it wouldn't be that different. This week, we seem to have done a lot, probably because it's still early days yet, so we decided to an update again.

For me, it's moving along much more quickly than the first few days. However, my attention span has dropped severely over the last day or so. Perhaps it's because I seem to be stitching on nothing but background all the time! It looks like my first couple of pages are pure background, and I won't be reaching the picture for ages yet.


Here's what mine looks like so far. It's progressed a lot more than the first pic, but it still looks like a purple blob. One of the things that has been motivating me to work faster, is the fact that Eel's design is quite a bit smaller than mine. When we were calculating the stitch size, mine was 214,800 and hers was 206,000. That sounded pretty close, so we went ahead with those designs. But on further thought, that makes mine 8,800 stitches more than hers, and assuming it's 100 stitches per hour, that's 88 hours more I have to do!

As a progress comparison, I always like to show a picture of my chart design. Since my cloth count is so small, it never looks like I've done much, but look at the design, and it looks much better.


See, I've done almost 3/4 of the page! Then I remember...I have 49 pages in total. :(