WIP: HAED Gemini ACEO (Butcher)

[nightwhisper]

I've been working on this Heaven and Earth Designs project on and off for a really long time. Today I finally finished Page 2.



Here's the original picture:



And here's what it looks like with two pages complete:



This is stitched 2 over 1 on 18 ct white aida.

Thanks for looking!

Comments

[ex_pippin880]

Oh wow, that's so detailed! Her hair looks AMAZING.

[nightwhisper]

Heaven and Earth Designs has some amazingly complex and detailed patterns, and it's all really lovely fantasy art. I'm just a very slow stitcher (too many hobbies) so I've never actually completed one. :)

I'm glad you like it!

[ex_pippin880]

I've only ever done simple video game/sprite stuff, so detailed stuff with lots of colours always amazes me. Good luck with the rest of it! :D

[nightwhisper]

Ah, very nice! I have done some video game stuff, myself. Definitely fun to do. ^_^

Thanks for the luckwish!

[scifisentai]

That looks amazing. *_* I'm always tempted by H&E designs but I'm a procrastinator (and the usual 25ct fabric is intimidating) so I know I'd never finish. Good luck with it, it's going to look brilliant when it's finished. :)

[nightwhisper]

I don't use 25 count fabric. I like to loop start my threads, so I don't stitch on anything higher than 18 because otherwise the two strands start to get really crowded. Trust me, I'm a procrastinator too... I've been working on this on and off for several years, and doing other stitches (and other hobbies) in between. :) This is one of their "Quick Stitches", and it has 31,350 stitches in it. o.O

Thank you! I hope I can have the persistence to finish it in a reasonable amount of time, haha.

[scifisentai]

That's a 'quick stitch'? *grins* I'd be in trouble then. And yeah, I can imagine it would get crowded at the back with the ct fabric that high. I don't always loop start but either way it would probably get pretty awkward to work with.

[celli]

Awesome!!

[ysobel]

Oh, that is utterly gorgeous.

(Dammit, I wish I could still do cross-stitch like that -- the scorpio one from that line is perfect for me omg)

[nightwhisper]

Thanks! :D

[nightwhisper]

Thank you! I'm glad you like it! ^_^

I work these on 18 ct aida, there's no way I would do them on the tiny count fabric they call for. Maybe you could give it a try! :)

[nightwhisper]

Haha, yeah this is considered a Quick Stitch. Some of their full-size patterns have hundreds of thousands of stitches in them. :)

I like to loop start because it locks down so nicely and then there aren't two sets of tails in the back (beginning and end). It definitely can get pretty complicated in the back. It's almost like a tapestry, really. o.o