So I'm onto my first full page now. And it is tough! I feel like I really haven't made much progress at all, and this page also has lots of single stitches in between small clumps. I've also slowed down a lot cos there's lots of cloth hanging below the area I'm stitching. Its not such a big problem as yet but I should probably start investigating methods of keeping all the extra cloth out of the way.

I tried to widen my gap with Sae on holiday last week, but at the same time I've been busy with various other hobbies and activities. Its tempting to spend hours and hours to ensure that I'm comfortably ahead of Sae, but I don't like the idea of putting of all the other things that I wanna get done til this competition is over. So I'm trying to juggle HAED, going to the gym, my side project, as well as trying to catch up with playing my new games. Not to mention house chores and trying to cook more. I'm blaming it on work, imagine all I could get accomplished if I didn't have to go to work. Time to win that lotto...oh maybe time to buy a lotto so I can actually win it...

Well back to HAED updates, here's my progress pics so far:

I've updated the prize money contribution totals as well. Due to the fluctuating exchange rates lately, we're well under the USD200 total that we're meant to be at this moment. I'll update the progress chart after this as well. So far, I'm at about 1.5k stitches ahead of Sae.

A friend of ours will be visiting me this weekend, so I should try to do heaps of HAED this next few days so I don't fall too far behind while hanging out with her.

If only my page was just the one colour!