Re: Epic Pokemon pattern WIP!!
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 10:11 am
I debated going color by color, but like you said, I predicted that I would ultimately have problems with positoning the stitches. That's why I'm going Pokemon by Pokemon, row by row. I figure this way, it breaks it up into 151 mini 'projects' so I feel a little bit better everytime I complete one xD Although it does seem to use a bit more thread, and I do block out anytime theres colors I'm using in the next Pokemon. It's definitely a slow progress, but it's interesting to see how everyone is tackling this monster of a project!Lijnloos wrote:Actually, throughout the stitching of this, I've gone through many strategiesmystikdreamer 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 > <
- 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!
