Bibliodame update #1

This week it was time for Bibliodame to be worked on. As I might have mentioned it is stitched on 28ct Lugana evenweave, 2 over 1 tent stitches. I never thought that I would do a project with tent stitches instead of full crosses, but I warmed up to the idea after watching some photos and videos of finished projects that other stitchers have done with tent stitches. And you really can’t tell the difference. And it really takes less than half the time.

And as I think I mentioned, I changed the #4 Kreinik to DMC White/Blanc. Other than that I am doing it as it is charted, and I really enjoy working on it. I do one colour at a time for each page and I think I managed to get six or possibly seven colours finished this week on page 2. Yesterday I finished the last colour for the week (647 I think it was) and by then I was a bit sick of working on it, so now it is nice to go on to do something entirely else (at least it feels like something entirely else to work in big blocks of colour on 18ct Aida for the Hogwarts logo).

I don’t think I have much more to say about this project for now, so here’s the before and after photos:

I have also done something I was not supposed to. I had promised not to buy any more charts until I had finished at least one more of my current projects. But for a long time I have been in love with the map of Middle Earth (HAED), and I have absolutely loved to follow the progress for those who work on this chart on Instagram or YouTube. I knew that I would hate myself if I didn’t buy it and HAED stopped selling it, so I bought it yesterday. I will not start working on it now, though. Might not even start this year, but I think I will sleep better knowing that I can stitch on it if I wish to.

I was thinking about posting a photo of how far I had gotten on the Hogwarts logo before I started on it today, but I will post that photo with the after-photo at the end of the week (or beginning of next week). I’ll cosy up in the sofa to work some on it now, not much progress yet!