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Here is July (Mabel please use for the Gallery if you wish - materials as before).

What a lovely design! Great start and looking forward to seeing more!

I think you are doing the right thing -- I suspect that moving them every day might do more harm than good. But I would take them off if I knew I wasn't going to be working on it for an extended period. Thanks, I agree. I think I will try moving the frame more often too as although I might stitch n...

Happy New Year everyone! I thought I'd post the current status of my WIPs to have a point of reference (for myself as much as anything else) for this year's stitching: Tree of Life - was hoping to finish this last year but I don't think I touched it once, so it's definitely my focus for the next few...

Absolutely amazing pieces with really interesting stories. I agree with everyone who has suggested consulting the V&A etc.

This week has been particularly bad for forecasting in Europe. On Monday the forecast for one Paris airport was clear skies whilst the other one, 20 miles away, was for snow. We landed at the first in dense fog. Yesterday the forecast for Madrid was scattered cloud, updated actual weather as we depa...

That's looking wonderful. It's amazing how "wrong" colours can blend into a picture.

What a fun design!

I suspect the marks will ease with a gentle wash and iron once the whole thing is finished. In the meantime, it might be an idea to take it off the q-snap if you know you'll not get back to it for a week? I think they will too; they have in the past on previous work. I do take off the Q-snaps if I'...

Thanks everyone. :D How beautiful, and all those blues are really relaxing and peaceful! Such lovely soft peaceful colours now 'showing up' and your stitching is lovely and even. A pretty update :applesauce: :applesauce: :applesauce: It does look very benign just now, but the right hand side of the ...

I really like that, great finish!

Lovely birds! Known as clockwork toys in my family as that's what they look like scurrying around the water's edge!

Hope you manage to get it finished in time.

I don't mind how many updates of this I see.

That's a lovely design and you're making great progress. Looking forward to seeing more!

Those are both beautiful. Looking forward to seeing what else pops up on this thread!

The stocking is beautiful and I really like the way you've finished it.

Starry Night is looking fantastic too.

Roland wrote:
You mean the TARDIS doesn't really work?

Wouldn't that be great...

Some progress on the Turquoise Sea. Please excuse the really bad Q-snap marks, I do use a piece of fabric to protect the stitching but this is so dense on the back that the clips are a bit tight. http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w484/rjd421/Turquoise%2016-12-16_zps4pt6btjw.jpg I hope everyone has...

Congratulations! Wonderful to see this finished.

Serinde wrote: I can help there, too.

That's most kind of you to offer, much appreciated but I ordered some just before I read this so I think I should be ok.

Lovely picture. Sorry about the :anotherfrog: visit. Regarding beads, I definitely agree about waiting to the end to decide. Looking at the kit picture I can understand your concern and Sally's French knot suggestion might be a good compromise. Or you could just add as many beads as you're happy wit...