I have a confession
When I emailed a certain pixie about the 5th Weekend SAL coming up I was actually referring to the end of July… June completely slipped my mind lol.
Even to the point that the post on the BB I just thought was being early to allow people to possibly participate this time.
Yes I am dull… and getting more so by the day it would seem.
By sunday night it finally clicked with a the thought “Hey fudgey is stitching on Aredhel.. that must make this weekend a 5th weekend too” Doh.
So I quickly grabbed out my trusty 310 and managed 600ish stitches. I promise that for the July 5th weekend I will put a little more colour into her Fudgey but this time I was going for maximum number of stitches in least amount of time 
I have reached a milestone of sorts though…
I have officially started into the black abyss that is page 7 with all the main areas of 310 being done on page 1. It will take me years to ever reach her beautiful face and hair at this rate.
it is the abyss thazt made me decide after doing pretty much what you have stitched that i was going to do a cropped version and cut off that row of pages on the left hand side..
yes i know i am a whimp…
i admire you for persisiting it will look wonderful..
I look at it in the way that at least the abyss will stitch up fast. I almost double my speed stitching the large blocks with about 200 stitches an hour. With the confetti areas I slow right down unless I am parking. It is all part of the reason I tend to stitch those chunks when I am low on time … I at least get to feel like I am making more progress. I am terribly jealous of your gorgeous girly though. I will have to make my way over in that direction at some point… but that will involve gridding hehe.