Category: HAED

Cross Stitch, Finishes, HAED

HAED Mini Sunflowers

Anne S

I have a significant finish today – after 31,600 small cross stitches, it’s now in the ‘to be washed and framed’ pile. I started this during Covid lockdowns, then it was put on hold for a few years while my mojo had disappeared. Thanks to a bunch of stitching challenges this year it gave me the urge to focus on this project and get it finished. It will eventually get sent to a very very dear friend in New Zealand, someone that I’ve known my entire life and is part of my family by choice. My goal this year was to get this to 80% finished, so I’m thrilled to have exceeded that.

“Mini Sunflowers” by Heaven and Earth Designs / Marianne Broome
Stitched on 16ct antique white Aida with DMC floss as charted
Started 6 June 2020
Finished 5 February 2025

Cross Stitch, HAED, Works in Progress

HAED Mini Sunflowers

Anne S

My work team cancelled my farewell lunch yesterday for my last official working day (I’m leaving due to redundancy after 24+ years), so I was feeling pretty emotional. Stitching to the rescue – I spent the afternoon putting in 1,000 more stitches into HAED’s Mini Sunflowers instead of being taken out to lunch. Every one of those stitches helped to ease my mind – stitching is amazing in that way, and I feel really blessed having my crafts as an outlet for these times. I’ve managed significant progress these last few days!

Finishes, HAED, Uncategorized

My first ever HAED … finished!!

Anne S

The title says it all … I can’t believe it myself, but this year saw my first ever HAED finished – QS Iris by Josephine Wall!  This was also, coincidentally, the first HAED chart I ever bought, so it’s quite cool that it’s also the first one I managed to finish too 🙂

I’ve always detested over-one stitching, but for some reason I really enjoy doing it on HAEDs, and it no longer phases me … yay me!!  I must say I also adore doing the 2-over-1 tent stitch, it’s soooo much faster too, and with pretty decent coverage on the 28ct Lugana 🙂

QS Iris by HAED

“QS Iris” by HAED (artist Josephine Wall) 
Started 1 April 2016 – Finished 14 July 2016
Stitched on 28ct Lugana in 2-over-1 tent stitch
with recommended DMC threads

Oh my goodness I’m still so incredibly proud of this achievement months after my finished!  I actually made a short video of every colour getting stitched for a HAED Facebook Challenge, but I lost it when my hard drive of my PC crashed a couple of weeks ago now.  Sadly that probably means I’ve also lost all my latest HAED purchases too, as the back-up portable drive will also not load a couple of folders either … so much for having a back-up of important files made! 😦

Anyhoo, one day I’ll download the software again to re-make the video and I’ll also add the rest of the photos in the process – it’s so much fun to see the project take shape colour by colour (when I remembered to take the photo anyway).

HAED, Stash

No longer a HAED virgin

Anne S

As mentioned in my previous post, I finally succumbed to starting a small collection of HAED charts … I’ll be lucky if I complete even one in this lifetime, but I couldn’t resist the temptation and fell in love with each and every one of these … plus a few that are waiting in the sidelines in my wishlist basket!  I was clever, though, and bought mainly Quick Stitches and Minis … although I still think they’re pretty massive in their own right!