Sunday 31 May 2020

Dark Forces rising again

One fun project I pulled out this month was Dark Forces. To recall, this is a full coverage by Tilton Crafts, my first project of the size, and I started it back in 2015. I had worked on it almost exclusivly for about half a year, until the first row of pages was done, and barely touched it since, so it was high time it got some love again! I started of here - as you can see, I did about half a page in the last five years or so:






I had worked on this strictly in columns before, but now that I'm using Pattern Keeper, I decided to work page by page and colour by colour instead. During the course of ten hours, I got about 1.500 stitches in, and brought this page prety close to a finish:





I'm hoping to work on this about once a month now to hopefully finish two or three more pages by the end of the year. We'll see how that goes!

7 comments:

Pamela said...

This looks interesting. Blue is my favorite color.

diamondc said...

Leonore: Nice progress, sometimes I want to put a project aside for a while, then I go to beading, or stain glass projects, I just cannot bring myself to starting another cross stitch design, not sure why.
I am looking forward to seeing your progress, blue is my favorite color.

Catherine

Rachel said...

If it wasn't for Pattern Keeper would you have stitched on this again? 1500 stitches in 10 hours on a project that complicated is awesome progress! :)

Carol said...

What great progress on that stitch-dense piece, Leonore! Your young eyes can handle that--my ancient ones sure couldn't :) Hope June is a good month for you!

Magical Mystery said...

Goodness I remember you getting this - I'd forgotten all about it! I look forward to your progress.

diamondc said...

Leonore: What great progress, oh my so many stitch's.

Catherine

Jo who can't think of a clever nickname said...

Beautiful colours in this one. The Pattern Keeper seems like a great app. Everyone is raving about it!