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Ron that is great for you and your daughter.

I am thinking of persuading my brother to let me use proper needle for the second lesson with my niece. She did ask me, "aunty why can't I use the needle you use". She just notices everything!

I really enjoyed doing this, I passed my wisdom, had some fun and also spend some quality time with my niece

Nachstenliebe, I completely agree. If you 're making it a chore, it looses all the joy and fun

I thought we share our tips and become better stitchers. :wink: My tip is the following: Lately I get patterns by email and I open them from my itouch (you can use your iphone as well if you have one). It is very easy to enlarge it by touching the screen. Only problem is you can't really mark the ro...

Teaching lesson went well although her project looks very....abstract but she thinks that she created a work of art and told her mum to frame her first artwork :D She practiced the half stitch first and then did the whole stitch. She had a bit of difficulty in the beginning holding the plastic needl...

I keep delaying this task

We have added new cross stitch kits of fairies.
Have a look: Fairies cross stitch kits

maybe you didn't like the exhibition?

minij, thanks for the suggestion. I will have a look and will definitely get her a present after the lesson

I will give an update soon. However I won't be uploading any pics, my brother is very protective of his little one and doesn't allow pics of my niece to be published on internet.

Update on the teaching: I asked my niece if she wanted to learn how to cross stitch and her reply was: "Yes please, I thought this was something that the grown ups only do" Isn't she a cutie? :wink: So I bought the supplies and will be teaching her this weekend. My brother insisted we use ...

thanks for this, I was planning on stitching this from the magazine. You have done a detailed professional work and investigation

check out ebay, I am always visiting ebay for bargains

well done meerkat, wow you must be a regular over here

I must frame it nice and tight, I wouldn't want her to see the back
My backs are always messy

thanks everyone! I am glad you like it. I will present it to her in two weeks. Hope to make her a bit happy.

I have finished stitching one of my own designs, the baby angel. It took me a couple of months but I had to stop for some time as I was very busy at work and was working long hours. I am very happy with the result, hope you like it too. I will frame it and give to my friend who lost her baby unexpec...

wow! this is so beautiful!

This is a lovely design indeed!

love it, very creative and modern