Pokémon April Update 3

Stitching whilst tired is never a good idea. Not long after starting stitching on Tuesday, after a couple of small blocks of colours I realised that I had missed a row of the design out of the background colour. At first I thought it's no big deal i can just add it in as it was only two stitches. It was only when I carried on stitching in black that I realised that I would have to unpick everything from above my mistake, as it was now too far down on the design.

I've also realised that because i started from the bottom of the whole design rather than the top, that each page of design has about 500 more stitches than the ones I have already done. In hind sight I would definitely recommend starting from page 1 of the design rather than doing what I have done.

After I sorted out my mistake I finished all of the black stitches on the page, so you can kind of see some of the Pokémon already.

As there is a lot of black stitches all over this page of the design it makes it easier for me to complete all of one colour at a time rather than having to stop and start as I move up the design.

I had the day off today, and I've had quite a productive day. I've painted my bathroom, cut the lawn and even sorted out some shoes(not thrown any out much to my fella's disappointment :D). After all of that I decided I wanted to have a lazy rest of the day so I did some stitching whilst watching criminal minds again. I've been writing bits of my blog through out the week so I could just add a few more pictures and write a bit more then get back to the stitching. :D

Pokémon Page 5 of 30 Complete

Woohoo! I've actually stuck a time scale I set myself and even beat it. I had planned to finish off page 5 of the design by the end of the week and I've managed to finished it on the Monday. Might have something to do with the fact that I had a couple of hours to kill last night whilst waiting for the new season of Game of Thrones to start. 

What I think has helped a lot with this page is that there was only two Pokémon to stitch, so there was a lot less colours that I had to stitch and all were in big chunks of the same colour. There was a couple of occasions when I missed one or two stitches when they weren't close to the big chunks so I was constantly having to find out that colour again and fill it in. There was even one occasion where i missed a couple of stitches practically next to most of the colour.

I definitely think I'm on a roll with my stitching at the moment and hopefully I can carry this on. I've completed 16,384 stitches so far and hope to add a lot more to that soon =]

Pokémon April Update 1

Over the past week or so the amount of stitching I've done on my Pokémon kit is brilliant for me, making the most of my time off once I felt better and completing my mini kit. I've completed the 4th page of the design, most of what was left was little fiddly bits of a couple of stitches for lots of different colours.

Over the past couple of days I've been working on the 5th page of the design working from the bottom up, one colour at a time. I've probably completed about 5 or 6 of the colours on the page. Which is about half of Blastoise, a water type Pokémon. He's the evolved form of Wartortle, and the final evolution of Squirtle. He's number 9 in the original Pokédex.

You can see in the photos as Blastoise starts taking shape, filling up and taking up most of this page. I think I've completed about half of the 5th page, which hasn't taken very long to do. 

Once I've finished this post I'm going back to my stitching. I'm hoping to have finished this page in a week or so, providing I don't get very distracted by something, which will most likely be the TV and the Game of Thrones (I'm a bit hooked at the moment).