I wanted to try out my new program on something a little smaller than Elegance, but something that still had a bunch of colours.So I decided on the Dimensions Christmas Village Ornaments kit that I picked up from the thrift store a while ago.
So glad I did, I've already found a couple ways to improve the algorithm.
I'm really liking how the stitches are looking though. I'm getting exactly the look I'd hoped I would when I decided to try this technique. I'll have to be sure to get a picture of the back too; there's a bunch of confetti because of all the greens in the tree, but so far it's looking very neat on the back which is an added bonus.
Page 2 complete!
That took a lot longer than it should have, but in my defense I finished the Danish analysis program this morning! I'm going to try using it for page 3 of this piece.
I did some of the backstitching on the this page - the branch and flowers on the right. I felt like doing some backstitching, and that element was completely contained on this page and I wouldn't have to move the scroll bar halfway through.
Got a lot of progress compared to the previous picture... I tried to get this page done this weekend, but alas it was not to be. It doesn't help that I've been getting basically nothing done during the week since I've been sick and basically crashing every night right after dinner.
This page should be done next weekend though - pretty sure there's less than 1 full day's worth of work left.
I'm considering taking some time to write an update to my current pattern analysis program to include a UI and add options for output using the Danish stitching method. On heavy-confetti pieces, my current shortest-path analysis works just fine for cross-country, but for pieces with large areas of colour, Danish is preferable and I have some ideas for how I want to perform the analysis.
Oddly enough, I'm thinking that I may make a text-based output for the Danish analysis. I want to basically have an easy way of doing full-width Danish parking, and I think text would be easiest.
Well, got a good chunk of pink out of the way, and then some more shading on the gold sections. There's going to be some background in this section, so the next step is a bunch of the branches in behind her. They're half stitches, so they should be relatively quick!
Made this as a thank-you for someone. It's still wet in the picture, and the thread ends are SUPER visible because the aida gets slightly see-through when it's wet. It will be hooped and hopefully dropped off sometime this week.
