Update #1: 2025 HAED SAL Innocent Dreams by L&L Designs
Hello my stitching friends! I thought I would post an update on my progress for my 2025 Heaven and Earth Designs Stitch a Long project, Innocent Dreams by L&L Designs. I started this at the beginning of the year and although I made great progress at the start of the year life smacked me in the face and I couldn't work on it again until recently. I now have time to work on it after looking at it longingly for the past few months and I am super excited about it! My original post is linked below.
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I am not sure if you can even tell from my last progress photo posted to Instagram in February and below, but I added a bunch of one dark green color to fill in a bunch of gaps on the left bottom and top right.
Can you tell the difference? Even I am having a hard time but rest assured, I completed a couple hundred stitches at least and the left hand side is much farther down than before as all of the spaces were filled in and more was added. Hopefully next month I will have made more progress that the last 8 months total!
Another part of the project I am really behind on is bobinating my threads. I have really only used a few thread colors so far, mostly dark green shades, and I only have a handful of threads on bobbins in my designated thread box. For this project I decided to bobinate as I went as I wanted to get a quick start on it so my thread box still looks very bare.
I do have all of my threads though which is such a relief. I am super excited about all of the purple colors once they start needing to be used as purple is my favorite color! I will not start bobinating the remaining threads for a bit unless I need things to do during sports practices. For now I am working on one of my diamond paintings at sports practice because it is easier to transport than my stitching but I did finally break down and buy a pair of magnifying glasses for stitching on the go which I will review once I have used them a bit. If you are curious they are linked below in the links section.
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This is what my piece should look like when it is finished. I am also super excited to see what patterns will be part of the 2026 SAL but I do not know when they will be released yet. Hopefully I will finish my piece this year and qualify for the other patterns but at this rate I will have to work really hard every day to get it done. I just got my final installment for 2025 and can't wait to keep working on it!
My goal is to finish the first page in the next week and then add the full pattern to my pattern app (Markup R-XP) and see how many stitches I need to do to finish by the deadline of 12/15/2025. The first goal is to finish 6 pages and with the ultimate goal of finishing all 12 pages. Yikes!
Do you think I will finish on time?
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