Daylight stitching

I haven't been stitching on my HAED as much as I would like over the past week. I've actually been trying to finish off one of my charity quilt pieces, that I promised to Quilts4Kids. I managed to finish it on Friday night, so the bits of the weekend that I was at home were spent cross stitching.

I really like doing cross stitch in the natural light. Normally, the only times I have free are at night, after work. The shadows always make it a little bit difficult, but I've been managing pretty well. On Saturday morning, I think I was going really fast because of the sunlight coming in from behind me! It made me feel really happy to stitch in the sun. :D

Eel doesn't seem to be online, so I'd better record this before I forget. As of today, I've completed approximately 9,100 stitches. And I can see a picture forming!


Truthfully, I kind of wish that I was back to stitching the background! There are HEAPS of colour changes now, and a lot of them are just one / two stitches. I don't want to cheat and just use whatever colour is nearest, that's dangerous now that it's actually the picture. All the colour changes are really slowing me down now, but it is more interesting to see something other than a blob of purple.

In other HAED news, Eel and I have added a new clause to the competition. We felt that we should spice it up a bit, because at the rate we're going, we should have no problems at all finishing within the timeline. I suggested that we see who finishes first, and that person will get 60%, and the other one will get 40% of the money.

The catch is that my design is about 8,000 stitches more than hers, so it's not fair for me. Eel said that I have more experience, so I need to give her an advantage, so we've decided on the following. 'Completed' for her means completing the whole design, which is 206,000 and for me, it would be 210,400 stitches. So, I'm giving her a head start of 4,400 stitches, which is a whole lot!

As of the last update, I was ahead of her by 400 or so stitches, but she's going to be on leave for one whole week with nothing to do but play games and stitch! Plus I'm going to go on a couple of holidays soon, so I'd better hurry up and get stitching!

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Prize Money Contributions

EeL's Contributions: AUD$471.63 (USD 415.69)

sAe's Contributions: RM$1681.51 (USD 494.56) (updated Apr)

Total Contributions: USD$816.12

(As of October 2009)

Competition Rules

Competition Begins: 1st May 2008
Competition Ends: Chinese New Year 2013

Goal: Complete a HAED design by the time allotted.

Designs chosen are to be of approximately the same sizes. Contestants are free to change their design half way, however it must also be of the similar size to the original design chosen.

Each month, each contestant will deposit USD$20 into a separate bank account.

Every fortnight, each contestant has to update this blog with updated progress pictures.

Prize Money:

If only one contestant completes her design by the deadline, she gets the total amount of money saved by both contestants.

If neither designs are complete, the entire sum of money is to be donated to a charity that is agreed upon by both contestants.

If both complete it on time, the money is divided in the following manner:

60% of the total goes to the contestant who completes* her design first within the deadline.

40% of the total goes to the contestant who completes* her design last within the deadline.

* For EeL, completion means full completion. For Sae, completion for the 60% winner total is 210,400 stitches, with the remainder stitches to be completed by the deadline.