HAED Challenge 1 - Cat Tales

Heaven and Earth Designs, set their 1st challenge this year to stitch diagonal in blocks of 10 x 10, you can only have the corners touching, so I had a go, different, not sure I'd do it again as I'm a cross country stitcher, now I have to tidy it up...lol

Set of Ort Bags

A lovely member of Chatterbox Stitchers made me some Ort bags a few months ago and I asked could she make me some more as I love them and look what came in the post this morning!!

A complete set, all different sizes....yay....love them.

Labelled my bobbins with symbols

I saw this idea on Facebook the other day and thought this is a great idea, especially for HAED projects, and once you finally complete your project then you can re use them.

I was going to get rid of my bobbins and boxes and switched to bags but now I'm thinking I might have to go back to bobbins, if this works.

So I have labelled all my threads in Cat Tales so I will give it a go and see how I find looking for colours.

Here is my box.

Gemini - Nearly there

I'm so trying to get this page finished then I can open up the design onto longer side stretchers, it's getting there slowly, can't believe this project will be 3 years old this June.

Updates 10th January 2016

I'm trying a little rotation this week. Here are my updates. 

Latest Witching Hour update

I thought I would put a picture of my latest update and the one before together on one picture.  So here we go, I'm now on 276.5 hours in total for the full bottom section.  As soon as I've stitched these last 3 pages I will take a full picture progress photo.  I'm currently on 10.5 hour for this page, I wonder if I will do it under 23 hours for the last page.

Another page complete

Yay, I have finished another page of The Witching Hour, I've spent 243 hours stitching this now.

23 hours for this page.