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flowerofscotland

blue_eyed_girl wrote: »

Lovely colours :T

I would take that as a compliment nmm . I have a ballerina cross stitch picture in my dining room and that has often been mistaken for a painting. :rotfl::rotfl:

Just catching up with Sewing Bee now.


b_e_g

nmm and beg Your work is painting with stitches

flowerofscotland

JCS1 wrote: »

Latest finish:



And the real life ones

Both are gorgeous

flowerofscotland

It is part of the Lizzie Kate way of designing to have the same letter in different ways. If you look at this cushion "attention" has 3 letters T stitched differently and the 2 n letters aren't the same. And there are plenty of other examples

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But I can see that might bother some people.

It suited me when I changed "children" to "grandchildren" as I had a choice of letters so could choose the ones that best fitted the space

flowerofscotland

I've got a small finish to show you - it will eventually be the middle of a cushion for a little dancer


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It will of course be ironed before then :rotfl:


I expect a lot of us can empathise with magscat I have had to deflect many comments over the years along the lines of "I'd love to be able to do that - would you be able to stitch one for me?" The ones that annoy me are the ones who claim not to have enough time to be able to stitch (I work full time and am the only carer for my disabled husband when I'm home so like most women I know I don't have much spare time but I choose to spend what limited time I have on stitching)

nmm

FOS, you said we're painting with stitches, your dancer looks like you sketched her its very pretty

I got my fabric from ATS yesterday it arrived next day, it was larger than expected so i measured it, I got 1m x 1.5m on both fabrics :j

mrs-moneypenny

Love the cushion and the ballerina FoS,

Sounds like a bargain on the fabric nmm.

Today I have stitched "not matter" and "what kind of house I lived in" LOL I need to find out off one of the kids how to photo from this.

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Hope everyone is well
Struggling with a rotten cold here at least it's half term so I haven't got to go to work.

At risk of sounding like Yoda, I've now stitched "what kind of car I drove" "it will" "how much"

Mrs_ceejay

Flowersofscotland
Gorgeous cushion,how very true,one minute they are babies the next
They are at school.
Can't make my mind up what to do next,knitting a waistcoat at the moment.which is turning out to be more tricky than I thought.
Mrs moneypenny
Hope you feel better soon,bad colds can make you feel really washed out.
Take care everyone.

Maisie_M

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

Have you noticed Masie all the letter Ks are slightly different I can't work out why as all the other letters are the same. I was doing the K in looked and got it wrong then realised i was looking at the k I'd already stitched in the same row but another word. Ther is another one in the top row and that's dufferent again! But looking at the finished photo they all seem the same on that. I've ended up doing mine so they are the same otherwise I think it will irritate me.
Today I've managed I Clothes looked, and because I was important.

Hope all are well

Oh I hadn't noticed but i have only done one K so far. I didn't do any this week as had too much work so ended up doing that at home too. Back on to it tonight hopefully mind you depends how tired I feel as I currently have an irratating habit of wasking at 3am for two hours and a shattered during the day!!

JCS love the lambs both real and stitched.

fos the ballerina really does look like it has been sketched, really lovely.

lottie3000

Well I haven't felt inspired to work on the bluebells for a while but gave it a good couple of hours yesterday, I find the filling in quite tedious as it's not getting any larger but comparing the last photo that I took to this one I am now pleased with the progress and hoping to have a little go tonight too.
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