Well - I finished one yesterday & immediately got started on this new one! I have a new method of keeping flosses & marking charts I am trying out to see if I can learn to cope with (for me) the dreaded colour charts!
This is what I am doing -
and this is how far I have got with it -
Doesn't look like much but I've been surprised by how enjoyable I am finding the writing & also how LONG it takes!
Mum's birthday is next Monday - I showed it to her today though as if she didn't like it her alternative pressie was a couple of daylight bulbs! But she did like it! In fact - I might even have to do this one again - for myself - we'll see how it goes!!!
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Be who you areandsaywhatyou feel because thosewhominddon't matter andthosewho matter don't mind. Dr Seuss
I love the picture with this verse as well. It's really fitting.
You've made a lovely start with the wording and just think, you still have the gorgeous picture to get to as well!
There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with CHOCOLATE! Forget love! I'd rather fall in CHOCOLATE!
Current With Faith
Dogs
Snow Leopard (Haed)
Big Cats
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Joan Elliot Spring Fairy
Cupcakes
Snuggle Up 2012 HD's
Bohemia
Fairy Friend
I really like this one! I just finished a footprints pattern about a month ago. I think the only version of this pattern I've seen has been stamped (printed) cross stitch. I think doing the lettering is always interesting, but it can definitely be time consuming! Especially with this poem. It's looking great!
WIPs: There Be Dragons, Feed My Sheep, Canyon Flight HAED, Lotus Flowers HAED, Christmas Cove
Agi
"The world, as a colourful knot of threads, has turned into a memory, and now you cannot be sure whether it was real." (Géza Ottlik, Hungarian writer)
Update time - I finished the writing (bar french knots) on Wednesday ...
I then started on the left part of the sky which is all 1/2 stitch BUT I made a bit of a cock up - I did all the 1/2 stitches & thought something wasn't quite right so I checked the instructions & found that I should have been using 2 threads for all colours except one but I used 1 thread for all of them! So back I went & stitched everything but the palest blue again - I'm hoping it won't be obvious when I complete the right side of the sky that I made a mess of the left!!
Well here it is up to yesterday ...
I'm triple checking everything now so hope I don't mess up again on this one!! Still - it's a lesson learned!
Be who you areandsaywhatyou feel because thosewhominddon't matter andthosewho matter don't mind. Dr Seuss
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Joan Elliot Spring Fairy
Cupcakes
Snuggle Up 2012 HD's
Bohemia
Fairy Friend
There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with CHOCOLATE! 
,I must be holding my 
