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Your longest piece

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I've been working on a Disney alphabet since May 2015. It has tons of color changes. Each letter takes about a month to complete. It's taking so long that I've had to work on other pieces because the color change makes me crazy I have 6 letters to go so I'm hoping it will be completed by the end of the year. What was/is the longest length of time to complete a piece?

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It's hard to compare when you have a piece in a rotation unless you deduct the time spent on the other projects. The longest I've spent on a project was about 18 months as I recall, working on it exclusively. It was 344 x 250 stitches and only 78 colors, all but about a dozen were blends, and had color changes of as few as 10 in the 10x10 block and as many as 43.

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Holy moly that is some piece. I just got a Cinderella piece that is like that one. Everything is covered in stitches. It's kind of intimidating though.

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I have two pretty big ones that I've finished & took a while. There was my first cross stitch project ever, a kit, and it took from 12 Jan to midnight 31 Dec 2011. Relatively few colours at 29, but slightly under 60,000 stitches at 14ct:
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Then there is the slightly shorter 28ct 'Honeymoon Portrait' of my wife that took me 9 months to do. Only 44060 stitches, but there were a maximum of 43 colours in a 10x10 square, averaging 9. No blends in this one as I'd not developed my charting program to that point at the time. There are 118 colours.
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My current two (Gryff & Luz) both use blended threads and after starting them last year I hope to get them finished in 2020 or maybe 2021. The chart images for those two are:
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Both images are around the 100,000 stitch mark, but with 156 and 133 thread colours blending to form 114 and 116 blends respectively they are a bit slower to do than un-blended images. Gryff peaks at 35 colours in a 10x10 square, and Luz at only 30.

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Richard, your projects never cease to amaze me and I take my hat off to you (yes, I do have hats and even wear them occasionally). I love seeing them, I admire them like crazy, and I am soooo glad I'm not stitching them myself :lol:
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I agree with Mabel's every word about your works, Richard. They are incredible. I always look forward to seeing your updates.

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Thank you both, but all pales into insignificance when you look at Vanessa's 'Adoration of the Kings'. That one piece is as much as most of us can do in a lifetime.

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Mine was only 6 months, Pleasant Row Cottages, the longest for me by not by others standards. It amazes just how large some members stitch.

I have plans to do a larger one, 24x17 inches in the future. Will not start that until next year & it will probably take me 9 months plus. I have a few other things to do first.
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Wow. What incredible pieces, Richard. How many hours a day do you stitch? I think I average 14 hours a week. I will go a couple of days of not stitching then NASCAR comes on and I sit there stitching for the entire race :)

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I suppose an hour or so a night generally, but unfortunately in the last couple of months, things have been difficult and the last time I actually stitched was June 16th. I am going to tomorrow's 'Knit & Natter' at our local library, and with luck I'll get a hundred or so stitches done then. With things as they are, I suspect the knit & natter will be my best chance to keep things moving along, however slowly.

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