Page 2 Row 3 FINISHED!

I just finished stitching my 3rd row on page 2!  That means I did a row in less than a day!  I do want to say to not expect an update on my Saturday or Sunday (I'm in the US) because I will be staying the nite at my aunt's house with my 4 boys and won't be taking my stitching.  I plan to enjoy that time with my boys!  So the next post from me should be on Monday or Tuesday I'd guess.  Here's the pics!

Second Post in one day!

We are having a blizzard here so I spent all day stitching.  I just finished up Row 2 on Page 2.  Here's the update pics!

Page 2 Started...

Man, doing just the background on this project goes so much faster than doing the actual design with all of the confetti.  I just got Page 2, Row 1 done!  It's going much faster than the last few rows on the last page, I'm deal with mostly one color of thread with a few accents added in!  Here's the pics!

Excited!

I am so excited to announce that I just finished PAGE 1 of Sapphire!  I can't believe I've done a whole page already.  That's over 7,800 stitches!  There are 42 pages (not all full pages, some are partial pages) in this chart and I'm done with one of them!  I need a shower first but then I will start on page 2.  Here's the pics!

Page 1 Row 9 is DONE!!

I am so happy to tell you that I have no JUST completed row 9 on page 1.  Here are the pics!

Pleased to announce!...

that Stacked Cups is DONE!  I just finished cup the last backstitch a few mins ago and took pics.  I'm so excited to have finished this project!  I want to thank Sherry for pushing me to get it done!  I'm glad it is tho and this will give me more time to focus on Sapphire.  I do plan on working on Sapphire yet today just have to do a few things around the house first, like wrap Christmas presents for the boys.  I appreciate all of the support and/or comments I've gotten to get this far on BOTH of my projects and for you guys to see the completed project pictures!  Here they are...

Page 1, Row 6 Done!!

Finally finished up the next row!  Got Page 1, Row 6 completed just now.  Here are the pics for that!

I also unstitched the mistake area on 'Stacked Cups'.  I plan to pick that up next and get a lil done on it!

Finally Page 1, Row 5 is DONE!

Except for 1 stitch that I can't seem to find the color for, Page 1, Row 5 is done.  Took me awhile to get this row done as I wasn't feeling good there for awhile and just plain didn't feel like stitching.  A few days ago I forced myself to just pick it up and do 15 mins and finally just now got my row finished.  I seem to be missing the color 939 in my project bag so will be going to the store hopefully sometime this week to grab that color.  I must have skipped it on the color number page when purchasing the threads to begin with.  I'm sure my Ben Franklins will have it.  Anyway here are the update pictures!

Oh I almost forgot.  I was searching around for the color 939 and FOUND stacked cups project.  I can now work on that in my spare time.  Right SPARE time.  But I have located it and cannot wait to finish it.  I will try to figure out where I missed up on that one and I'm sure I'll have some frogging (unstitching) to do!  Here are the pics of Sapphire!

Page 1 Row 3 Done

Sorry it's taken me so long for an update this time!  I did really good on Row 3 till Tuesday (10/23/12) but then my health took a turn for the worse.  I had 4 spells where I almost fainted on 10/23 into 10/24. I got right into the doctors office and have just been drained of my energy!  The doc office did blood work and that came back normal so next is an MRI of my brain.  I have to get an issue with my insurance taken care of on Monday then the doc office will schedule the MRI.  I finally felt well enough tonight to stitch some thus finishing Row 3.  I hope my health continues to stay like this so I can continue stitching!  I finally got it done tho.  Here are the update pictures!

Page 1 Row 1 done

The first 800 stitches have been completed in this project!  I now have the first row on page 1 done.  There weren't as many color changes or confetti as I expected so that's nice, but with the big blocks of the same color I noticed I got bored easily.  That could be because the colors are so dark there's not much of a difference in them.  I have also noticed that it is stitching up darker than what it looks in the project sample picture but that is okay, it will look fantastic when done.  Also in column 4 I seem to have gridded only 9 spaces instead of 10 so if it looks like I'm off on my gridding I am.  I just pretended I didn't notice my mistake and am just sorta ignoring the gridding till I can fix my problem.  Here are the update pictures I just took!

Start Pictures!

Well I have officially started my first non-freebie HAED (Heaven and Earth Design).  I have completed the first 100 stitches and thought I would mark the occasion with some pictures of the first 100 stitches. The colors are all very similar so I hope the camera picked them up well enough!  The first square (10x10 square) was mostly one color with a few other colors added in.  Here they are!!

Supplies

Well, I did it!  I went out and bought all of the threads, fabric and a few other things so I can get started with Sapphire.  Spent a bit more than I planned on but that's okay!  I ended up going with 18 count Aida fabric as that was the only piece they had that was big enough for this project.  It's huge!  I can't wait to get started!!

Progress Pics of Stacked Cups

Here are the pictures I have taken on my progress of the project Stacked Cups.  If I remember right there is something in the red and black checkered squares on the bottom cup that isn't matching up which caused it to become a UFO (Unfinished Object).  So I will need to do a bit of unstitching before I can work on this one.  First I have to FIND the project..