I’ve been stitching away and made some great progress. This time around I worked on filling the space between the leaf and the flower bud. I put in 664 stitches and am at 29.3% complete!
Here’s where I was before:
and here’s where I am at now:
I think for the next round I will start working downward and continue the background fill in, which is less color changes, and should get me closer to the 30% completion.
We post an update on our own project every three weeks and encourage each other to make more progress and stay motivated. I’m looking forward to seeing how the rest of the SAL group has progressed with their projects this time around. Read along with me by clicking the blog links below:
Avis, Claire, Gun, Constanze, Kathy, Margaret, Heidi, Jackie, Sunny, Megan, Deborah, Sharon, Daisy, AJ, Cathie, Linda, Helen, Connie, Cindy, and Mary Margaret
Petals and Pins 
30% will feel like a good milestone. It’s nice to see the blank spaces filling up and if there are less colour changes in the background it’ll be a bit quicker to stitch.
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I think so too, Avis 😊
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You really made some great progress. This is really an intricate X stitch project. I’ve had problems with my close matched color threads. I can’t imagine what it’s taken to work this one.
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It’s definitely hard to tell some colors apart, I use shapes of completed stitching to help guide me sometimes 😊
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I don’t have a way to determine how many stitches I complete each time. It is nice to know. I like how this piece is progressing. Filling in the background makes the picture pop and makes it feel like you’ve accomplished so much more. I really like how that background is looking.
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Thanks Cathie! I usually don’t count my stitches, but the scarlet quince app where I track my progress, counts it for me! It’s nice to track how much I’ve accomplished 😊
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I can tell the 30% mark is going to motivate you a lot this next round! Huge progress on that background!
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Thanks Kathy, it definitely will!
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Great progress!
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Thank you!
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you were very industrious!
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Thanks Claire! I had a show that kept my attention on the couch so that made stitching easier 😉
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That is a lot of background work! I don’t doubt you’ll be glad for less color changes. Great progress!
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Thank you so much! Yes, I’ll definitely enjoy the mindless fill in for a change. There might still be 4 different light shades there, but it beats 15 or more color changes around the leaf. 😆
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Awesome percentage. Your getting there!
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Yay! So close ☺️
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It’s so hard to tell just how many shades of grey there are so it looks easy, which I am sure most of us know from experience is not the case. You are doing so well on this one.
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Thanks so much! I’ll have to count color changes next time because even I’m curious 😉
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You’ve done so much progress this round, 30% is just around the corner. Congratulations on this intricate, beautiful piece!
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Thank you so much!
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Wow that’s a massive update! I think it’s great how you’re tracking it because with a pattern like this it’s harder to realise how much you’ve done but it’s no small progress!
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Definitely agree! Thank you!
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