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Wednesday, 26 February 2020

The Loneliness Of Autumn - 20 hours

Hi all!

The Loneliness Of Autumn is a SAL with Leonore, which we are both stitching extreme cross country one colour at a time.

I somehow managed to fit in the required ten hours during the month, so here's an update on what eventually be 5,718 stitches of black:



I'm not a page counter but, to put things in perspective for you, the design is 4 pages wide by 4 and a bit pages tall. I did start gridding the fabric but, as I'm not used to it, actually found the grid lines quite annoying so ripped them out! Instead, I've marked each page break with a little + for reference. You can see them if you look closely.

So far I have completed the black on 8 out of 16 pages, and am well into the ninth. This equates to about 3.75% of the whole project.

For those who wish to compare SALs, here's Leonore's post for February.

Next month... even more black!

Take care,
Rachel x

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11 comments:

  1. Linda26 February 2020 at 18:42

    Nice progress Rachel. I feel like I'm stitching extreme cross county on my stained glass pieces with the black. lol

    Linda

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  2. Jo who can't think of a clever nickname26 February 2020 at 19:43

    This is fabulous, you can see the picture appearing already!

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  3. Tiffstitch26 February 2020 at 21:07

    Nice progress, especially considering how your time has been affected. Hope things are getting better.

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  4. Cathy27 February 2020 at 00:44

    I can't imagine counting all those stitches, especially since they're all over the place. I have enough trouble keeping track of hours/minutes and I use a stopwatch for that. I hope your time away from home is lessening as time goes on!

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  5. Clare-Aimetu27 February 2020 at 07:51

    I admire your dedication, great progress

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  6. Ann C.27 February 2020 at 21:54

    You have made a lot of progress this month. It is starting to look like something.

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  7. Anonymous27 February 2020 at 22:08

    I've never gridded fabric either, but I could imagine it would be annoying! And all that black......you'll be looking forward to stitching with another color :) You've made great progress.

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  8. Leonore Winterer2 March 2020 at 13:29

    Looks great! I love how much if the trees is already visible.

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  9. Bethan2 March 2020 at 21:37

    I have always found gridding material odd - I tack the centre lines and that's it! Black seems to have been a really good choice to start with; I can really see the trees x

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  10. Katie4 March 2020 at 00:54

    Fantastic progress!

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  11. Faith...6 March 2020 at 02:27

    Oh no... not extreme cross country! I always worry to much about my counting to stitch like that. You have made great progress. Good luck with your stitching.

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