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That is beautiful!!!!!

It's stunning the black is perfect, it can be a pain to work on, but worth everything in the end

Its beautiful, well done.

Amazing design. I've considered trying that one myself, but have more than enough to keep me going at the moment.

I'd love to see your progress, and the finished project!

Keep up the ggreat work!

Thank you for all your kind words and encouragement! knowing your all following my progress certainly helped me to not put it away in the cupboard for another year( I was tempted a few times )

And it paid off-here is my finished piece, yay!!

The pic wasn't taken in the best light, but I just couldn't wait till daylight to put it on here

That is absolutely stunning, I love it Well done, I would not have waited for daylight either

Oh wow, wonderful. Well done

Wow! - amazing job and an excellent result. You should be really proud of this Jenny, 'cause we're proud that you managed to complete it.
Your gentle giant lazin' on the rock with his eyes ever watchful over us all is stunning. As other have already said, the black setting makes it all the better, although I imagine it would be much harder to work with. I have the luxury of using any colour as my background during the wip, then I just change it at the end..... see virtual x-stitch has got a few advantages - lol

I shall be lookin' out for your next project wip and be right here to encourage ya.

Happy Stitichin'...

Oh Jenny,that is truely a stunning piece!
You should be so proud of yourself, it's a real achievement.

Well done!!!!

Thankyou everybody, im am feeling a teeny bit proud(ok alot proud ) I think i'll save some pennies to have it professionaly framed!

Im relieved its finished though, Think i'll have to do something bright and colourful next to recover

Its fantastic, well done. So u should be proud of it to, u have put alot of time and effort into doing this. I wouldnt have been able to wait either lol.

that is stunning! and seems challenging! way to go you!

Wow Jenny - that is amazing!!

Having worked on black aida, I can totally appreciate how challenging (and frustrating ) this can be!

You should be very proud - and you definitely need to get it framed and show us that too!

Well done mate

Thanks for all your kind comments!

I started micheal powells 'pots of flowers' yesterday evening. It just the thing I need, lots of bright blocks of colour!
Heres my progress:


I think the original is done using anchor, but im using dmc so the colours are not as soft as the original design!

That's going to be beautiful, The light aida will be a change to work on too

Oh that is very pretty - I like the colours

Nice and bright! Will look lovely and uplifting when it's finished.
I like the colours, they blend well.

Well done Jenny the tiger is absolutely gorgeous! Good idea to get it professionally framed when there's such a lot of effort gone into it -- and well worth it!

I like the new project you've started -- is he the designer with the wobbly lines? It's nice and bright; and probably a bit of a relief to leave the dark fabric behind you

I've often wondered whether there was a noticeable difference between DMC and Anchor -- so the Anchor colours are softer? Almost makes me sorry that when I first took up cross stitch it was with a DMC kit *wistful sigh*

Started another already and some very good progress. The colors are so nice and bright I like that. Quite a jump from black to white do you feel like it has suddenly become daylight.

Looks lovely Jenny