Sprite Stitch Board!

Looks amazing!

This is looking wonderful!!! Great job!

This is crazy awesome!

After much thought and deliberation, I have decided to start my Epic Pokemon Gen I over. I started it when I was a noob (my stitches don't run the same way, it's knotted on the back, dumb things like that...), so it is messy and incredibly novice-looking, and that's not how I want a project of this magnitude to look. I am very much looking forward to starting it again, though

mystikdreamer wrote:Looking amazing! Did you block out the major colors of the Pokemon first? I'm curious about how people are proceeding with this. Personally I'm completing them one at a time, but it seems to be taking much longer than it should > <

Actually, throughout the stitching of this, I've gone through many strategies
- I started out in the corner on the right bottom. Going by the pages, one by one...
- After about 15 pages I combined a whole row, trying to finish that before xxxx (where xxxx would be the end of the holiday, the month, the year... whatever)...
- That didn't work so I went back to the pages... But this time, I made my own pages with grids of 50x50 (and 56 on the sides) stitches. This way I could finish a page faster and I figured that would keep me motivated more... And it did..... for about 4 pages
- Then I did a little till the end of the row again.
- I was now about halfway, and decided I would first finish all of the black! And because I was about to go on holiday again, I printed out a pattern with only black and 5 other colors (a yellow, a green, a red and a blue and white!). That way I would only have to take a few colors, and 6 big sheets of pattern (printed on A3 paper-size).
- After those colors I really liked working by color, so did that a few colors more! But than I got blocked by the colors and made a few to many mistakes because I couldn't related the positions of the new stitching against the ones allready done... this was not going to work anymore.
- Back to pages of 50x50, but now from the top right corner. And when almost finished I took the pages next to it along with it. But again, unsatisfying
- Now I'm working by color but with my laptop in front of me, KG-chart on it, working my way through the last parts... this is working, but requires me to have my laptop with me when I stitch.

I'm not saying I won't think of something else again, before finishing it (was thinking of going back to pages again last night in bed haha), but I will finish it!

I finally caved after all these years and I going to make it! My supplies have been shipped and now I just have to be patient and wait for them

Ally wrote:After much thought and deliberation, I have decided to start my Epic Pokemon Gen I over. I started it when I was a noob (my stitches don't run the same way, it's knotted on the back, dumb things like that...), so it is messy and incredibly novice-looking, and that's not how I want a project of this magnitude to look. I am very much looking forward to starting it again, though

Yay, now I'm not the only one starting this project. That gives a little more motivation (I hope I don't get competitive..)

After a long break I finished page 7/30! Slowly, but steadily

This project is just amazing! Really, there are no other words.

And thank you for telling us the different methods you've used to get through it. In the past, I've always just went one colour at a time, until finished. Mixing it up (especially on a project this size) sounds like it would break it up a bit.