Shakespearean Fantasya Cross Stitch Pattern by Heaven And Earth Designs

I've been working on it for more than 3 years, just devoting a few hours a day. got to find more hours to complete it or it will be another 2 years...The full sheets take more than 90 hours. There are 60 pages total. Last 6 pages aren't full. Each page on the end of roll aren't full pages, either. I'm stitching mine on 20 count, wanted it a bit larger. I've found some extra hours. Just wanted to share the half way mark.

I have never had this problem before and just want to ask if anyone else has. I changed the fabric on this to 28 count lugana and am doing 1 over 1 so the project is not quite as big. I am finding that my dmc thread is fraying even using an 8 inch piece and threading all the time. Does anyone have any suggestions? It is going to look beautiful when finished and the smaller count only needs one thread but rethreading so much is killing me! LOL. Since it will be almost 400,000 stitches, that's a lot of threading! I am using a #28 needle also, maybe using a 26 would help? I don't want to try it since I would then have to pull such tiny threads and would hate to cut the fabric (we have all done that haven't we?) Thanks in advance!