It's been an immensely tough week for my HAED. I thought that it was tough when I reached the wreath section of my design, and boy, was I wrong. I've now reached the hair and wings part of the fairy, and that's so much worse! The outline of the hair / wings are practically ALL confetti stitches.

I was attempting to finish my 4th page last week, and towards the weekend, I only had about 150 stitches to go. It took at least 5 - 6 hours to finish up those sections! Why, oh why, did I choose such a colourful design? I got so discouraged that I stopped HAEDing for awhile, and checked out Eel's design to see when her confetti stitches would start. All that did was to make me even more discouraged. She's got practically whole pages with just one colour! *sigh*

Since I had to move my cloth yet again for my 5th page, I spread it out yesterday night, ironed it and took a picture from afar. And, I think that my work has paid off somewhat. It looks really pretty, so much better than from up close.



And here's what it looks like from near, the picture's a bit crooked, but you get the idea...