Diamond Painting..progress?

 pick, stick, pick, stick, try not to get hair or hand stuck and repeat over and over and...

this is where I am up to, the picture gives me the distance to better see the developing image as close to it remains a bit disappointing.

Once finished it is going to need a large room to be displayed with sufficient distance for suitable viewing.

Oh here is an update..I was not enjoying this, gave it to my BFF and CLICK HERE to see what happened to it next

From a distance

 this looks a little bit more as if there will be a viable picture at some point, close up the colours of the little tiles don't look as is they should work out at all.

I am a little concerned that the sticky will wear off before I get all the tiles stuck, I think that the one colour at the time method is not the best of ideas here for that reason. Ah well lesson learnt too late perhaps.

More tiles stuck..diamond painting

and I am keeping on with this, there is admittedly something very satisfying popping a tile into a section to make it complete and solid.

Trying to get all of each colour done can become a bit of an obsession, and just like cross stitch when you think you have all of a colour done and put away the thread (or in this case pour the tiles into the little bag and put them away) you spot that ninja stitch (somehow hiding in plane sight), the empty gap with the symbol for the colour just put away.

So this update more colours added, some ninjas tracked down and dispatched (but some will still linger)

Diamond Dragon ?

more stuck on but this was a session of rote not fun, of course that may be where my head was at whilst doing it rather than the project.

Or that odd thing that as you get some sections filled in rather than seeing how much is done what strikes you is how much is still left to go.

Oh and there is the symbol issue why do B next to 8  particularly when it is a coloured pattern and the shades are close to each other.

More little tiny faceted tiles

and discovering the annoyance of realising that a given tile is not as squarely in its place as I thought.  Mind the sticky stuff is still sticky  not set so they can be shoved and pushed about.

                                                                  So here is my progress

     I am still working on the principal of completing one colour at a time as it is easier to see that way.

Diamond painting a little bit more

work completed and a little bit more fun.

Finished the first shade, and the second shade (which was black) which was dotted in amongst the fist and so was very easy to see so more enjoyable to me.

I then moved onto another colour, based on the ease of seeing the symbol on the pattern, it kept my hands reasonably occupied whilst we watched the disappointing reboot Laura Croft picture on T.V.

So some lessons learned, rolling it up does not appear to have caused any problems and the plastic that covers the stick pattern is only stick resistant on one side, the other side..sticks! 

No thoughts as yet on what I will do with it when it is finished, well that's not quite true I did mention it to my BFF that perhaps I would give it to her as housewarming gift once she gets moved.

Diamond Painting ?

I was gifted with a diamond painting kit for Christmas, yes that was quite some time ago wasn't it.  I am not so sure that the title of this craft is exactly representative, its not made of diamonds (shame that) and nor is it exactly painting after all there is no paint.

It is more faceted mosaic, but that lack a certain saleable ring to it.

So the kit. 

 

came in this box.

with the rolled up pattern which is also the base onto which the faceted mini tiles stick. (those are the tiles in the bags at the bottom of the picture.)

Little trays, odd pink stuff and tools for corralling, picking up and placing the tiny tiles.

Instructions on the side of the box.  Well I took everything out, checked everything was there, read all the bits and looked at the pattern and put it all back in again.  This occurred more than once. I am not sure why I put off giving it a go. Maybe all those bags of tiles were intimidating.

Today I thought I would make a move and give it a go.

Started with the darkest colour and what looks to be the most used colour.  Made a bit of a false start trying to get the pink pick up stuff onto the tool, mainly because I had not spotted the protective plastic it was covered in.  Ah well.

The tray with grooves did help in getting the tiles the right way (faceted side up and flat side down) and there is a sort of rhythm to it, pinks stuff, pick and stick several tiles then pink stuff repeat.

 I got quite a bit done (the very black bits are done bits) you might be able to tell it is a dragon, my friend knows me well. I am not sure if I like it or not. (the process not the picture, I like the picture).

For the moment, I have at least made a start, but at the same time it has been rolled up again and with all its bits and bobs is back in the box. 

And I will see how long it waits to come out to play again

Sunday Stitching today

saw more white than blue completed however, it is of course the blue that stands out.

She is coming together.