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Absolutely amazing!!! Your skill and creativity are fantastic!!

Carole

Squirrel wrote: Mon Aug 17, 2020 3:03 am
Oh my goodness he is so fabulous and the colours are awesome. Can't wait to see the finished picture.

I agree!!! Wow!!!!!!

I'm getting Hope ready for publication and I'm working on my RSN Goldwork so what I really needed for the evenings was something relaxing and uncomplicated. Cue one of the Melbury Hill kits I got a while back. This is a stylised strawberry pattern I'm working upside down because I think it looks silly the other way up

I turned the page upside down and Yes it does!
Strawberries hang down from the plant so you have put the right perspective on this design.
Exactly what we have come to expect I might add.

Great beginning!!!

Carole

What a Cutie that is Mabel. Love it.

Well, phooey, I wrote a reply to this yesterday and I could have sworn I posted it but it is not here sorry Mabel.

Wow, how did I miss this lovely horse, he is looking fabulous already, there is such a fluid movement in the hind legs and tail.

Amazing Mabel, simply amazing.

The Strawberry is delightful, your stitches give it a lovely texture, as well as the couched threads looking like the seeds.

And yes, when I used to grow Strawberries they grew out of the stem and then their own weight pull them down towards the ground, so your orientation is spot on.

It's gorgeous.

That strawberry stitching is so pretty Mabel!

And oh my that horse, is fabulous and so creative. Can’t wait to see more

A bit more progress on the strawberry - it's been outlined and I've started on the padded satin stitch petals. The instructions don't say to do a split stitch outline first, but I find it makes for a nicer edge.

Ooh that Strawberry looks good enough to eat!

The satin stitch petals are looking lovely and have a lovely soft rounded look to them.

this design.

Melbury Hill has some lovely designs, and I'm enjoying stitching them, but the kits do have some drawbacks - the design lines are quite thick, so sometimes it's difficult to cover them up unless you add some stitches; and the instructions are fairly minimalist, so for a beginner they can be confusing. I worked on one of these kits with a student, and she said if she had tried the kit on her own, several times she wouldn't have known what to do or how to stitch an element.

Good idea to outline with split stitch
Also if as you said that the outline mark are a bit thick it does ensure a good coverage.
Love this BTW.

Oh so lovely and growing more lovely with each update.

Sounds like Chinese grammar to me, but looks great.

The little flowers are finished - here's a close-up of one of them. Tonight DH has the third of his 6 Zoom meetings this week so I shall get on with this!

Lovely!

Carole

Leaves! (Not quite complete yet, but getting there. Not today though - it's kangaroo time!)

Good enough to eat. Especially since you don't eat the leaves anyway.

Carole

Absolutely lovely!

The little flowers are gorgeous and the leaves are so beautiful.

Overall the piece is beautifully balanced.

WOW that is coming along so beautifully. Love all of it.