Hi Stunners!
I hope you are all well. I decided I will post a weekly update of my progress on Drinks on the Beach. If you read my previous post, I have to finish 6 full pages to qualify for the 11 other charts in the SAL. According to StitchPal I started with having to complete 540 stitches per day. However, I had some really good days where I busted out well over 600 stitches, and then some days where I barely got any in. So my daily average requirement fluctuated accordingly. I am currently sitting at 549 per day. So here is what it looked like on 1st October:
And here is where it's at on 12th October. I managed 4,293 stitches.
The edge of blue sky on the fifth row is the page break and the bottom is where the gap is on the red straw. So I will have the first page completed by my next update. When I got a little blue sick and as a reward, I worked on some of the brighter colours.
If I was a good girl and completed my targeted stitches in a day, I picked up Joker. I finished the diagonal and made a start on the next one last night. I have decided to stick with this one for a bit longer. The diagonals are set at 10 stitches wide. After I finish this one I would like to try another diagonal on him but this time with a 20 stitches wide one. The reason behind it is that I don't stick strictly within the diagonal. As long as there is a stitch above, I keep going. And I found I was doing this a lot so I thought maybe a 20 x diagonal would be a better fit for this design. I'm absolutely loving working on him. I love how the steampunk pipe things in the background stitched up. It looks really effective in real life.
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I will post another update next week. I will take pictures in the daylight next time as the colours look a bit washed out when taken at night under my daytime lamp. But trust me they are both very vibrant.
I hope you all had a great week, stitching or otherwise.
Take care and may life be magical for you!
Alicia
