It's Rachel Anderson's Queen of Hearts, just my second go at using evenweave and think I may never go back to aida!! It's 28ct brittney and after reading Sarah G's very informative info & diagrams on what looks best on it, I also decided to go with tent stitch over one with two strands.
The design is 535 stitches wide x 600 high - 81 pages -- although all the pages down the right hand side are just a single column of stitches and the bottom pages are just a few rows....
I started this on 4th December but as I've said, Santa didn't bring me a digital camera (yet) so have been waiting to get the films used up & developed.
I finished page 1 within the week! it used mainly black with a tiny bit of dark brown & purple (sorry for the quality, these photos get better as they go on)...
I was amazed at how quickly it came on with it being tent stitch and mainly just one colour (how excited was I when I got to one or two purple & brown stitches here & there!)
I worked mainly in columns of 10 stitches wide, the most disciplined way I've ever stitched on anything, as I was so nervous about going wrong on it!
As you can see also "hemmed" (don't know the name of the stitch) all the way around first of all as it would have been so upsetting if the whole thing had started to come undone! ...but don't ask my why I used dark brown.... I'm not sure how/if I'm going to frame it once it's done, maybe I'll start a new trend!
Oh also at this stage learnt that a size 28 needle really is best, as any bigger ones which I started off with were actually pushing the stitches out of their way, creating tiny little white spaces, hmm!
I'll also treat you to a pic of page 2 as you can see a few more of the flower details & shading of the reddish background coming in (I was now juggling the grand total of 5 (yes five) different colours.... wondering what's all this complaining about HAED confetti stitches?!?! had I picked an unusually easy one? With me it was more like 'keep going, only 6 more rows of black to do then I get to put one or two burgundy stitches in'!!
I stared for ages at it once the difference between the more purple & then the more reddish shading appeared, I was entranced, it was so subtle, like magic! I think I may be well & truly converted to HAED designs now especially since I have such a fear of backstitching & fractionals!
Anyway I hope you're all staring entranced at the magical shading now as well
Louise
; when I saw the picture I assumed it was stitched on a hand-dyed wine-red fabric! Just contemplating stitching all that background makes me scuttle back cowardly to my little mini projects 
Great start 
