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Interesting to see the way you grid. I just do the grids horizontally, but count the length of the stitches, so they are 5 holes long above & below the fabric. Then I space the lines 10 apart. That way the grids match up with stitches 1-5 on every group of 10 stitches.

I wonder if it's quicker to do the way you do. Will have to look into it.

I do use red fishing line so that I don't have to remove the gridding as I get to it. The fishing line pulls out easily even when buried in lots of stitches.

Regards,

Richard.

I never thought of red fishing line Richard. I sometimes count the holes above & below fabric when gridding but most times it is haphazard. When I see some people have done very neat gridding I feel I ought to be like that but it never lasts long before I revert back to not counting length of gridding stitches. I do lines 10 spaces apart as you do. Never having done a project this large before I have done all horizontal lines but still have a few vertical lines to add on. As mentioned before I may put a few in each time I go from one project to the other but may leave it until I get nearer each edge as there aren't many more to do.

few more colours coming now



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Beautiful stitching

Love how it's coming along!

lovely shading!

this i beautiful- lovely stitching & beautiful colours. I must start mine altho grands want me to start their geisha first but I have been busy so not done much of anything x stitch wise lately. Done quite a lot of reading in between other things. Must get back to stitching soon tho as I missing now..

It is coming along beautifully, Daisy!

Lovely update!

Carole

Great to see other colours coming into it and beautifully and evenly stitched. Well Done.

Squirrel wrote:Great to see other colours coming into it and beautifully and evenly stitched. Well Done.

I agree!

That looks great! It is a lovely design you're working on.