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This is the start of "Love" by Dahlig, Finally! I am a little over 1,000 stitches (all black silk, love the coverage), a modest start but I was in Denver, CO all weekend visiting my best friend. I did sneak in a few stitches while we were catching up on Harry Potter before the last movie was released.



Page 3 of "Pretty" by Thomas is started! I worked on her a bit this weekend as well while I waited for my fabric to arrive. This is my second Hermit and Stitch Weekend and I am so excited to see everyone's progress on the Random Ramblings blog! The Maiden

Pretty

Page 2 is almost complete on my Heaven and Earth Design "Pretty" by Nene Thomas! The feathers of the mask and the hair are starting to emerge. The following posts are all "pre-hiatus." Hopefully I will be able to stitch again soon! The Maiden.

Pretty

I have completed 12,000 stitches of my Nene Thomas HAED "Pretty." I am so excited to see some of the feathers in her hair outlined and cannot wait to see this page completed. The Maiden

Pretty

I finished my first full page of the Heaven and Earth Design "Pretty" by Nene Thomas! Stitched on 25ct Lugana one strand DMC over one. There are 9 pages to the first row, I have completed page 8 and 9 (the last page being only 600 stitches), and even though it is all sky I was not as bored with the background as I thought I would be. The purples and pinks not evident in the design were a nice surprise (although a little unsettling at first, I kept thinking I was using the wrong color). The Maiden

HAED

Heaven and Earth Designs is having a sale! I could not resist buying my favorite pattern "Pretty" by Nene Thomas. This pattern has always been my number one choice (I know it's crazy, but I looked at 5,000!), but after receiving a 99 page pattern from the same artist I started looking for an alternate. To my immense surprise this pattern was only 45 pages (if you condense all the end and half pages it is roughly 36 pages). All 0f the alternates were around 30 pages, so what is another 6 pages? I made a deal with myself, I could buy the DMC and fabric if I stopped buying HEAD patterns. So I giddily went off to Michael's and after 20 minutes at the check out spent an astounding $50.00 on DMC! There are 88 colors and 10 skeins of black! Now all I need is 25ct fabric and the endurance for all that one over one! This is the project of a lifetime and hopefully I will finish it during this one! I would love to do a SAL, Mother are you interested? The Maiden