My First EGA class: From Fail to Fun

In my last post I mentioned my joining the EGA and my first class; a Blackwork Pumpkin. Today I am going to show you the results. Embroidery is a generic term for a great many styles/types of needle work - I love it all but I don't want to stitch it all. This class has clarified in my embroidery portfolio, I will never be accomplished at doing counted work. Math is not my best friend, I only like it in small necessary doses. Counted Work ( Blackwork being part of that) requires counting and compensation, recounting and more compensation and I am not even going to try to explain that here - I am just a total flop at it. I discovered with my pumpkin class once I got beyond the pumpkin out line I became totally lost in the counting and the compensation part. I really have a new appreciation for my fellow stitchers who excel at this. I love it, but not for me. This is the pattern I traced you can see the stitches - along with the tracing parts, there are details stitch instr