I've been a silent reader (and admirer) for some time, but decided to show some of my projects here. Actually, I'm planning to post each month showing the progress on those projects. Maybe it would help to revive the community - I really miss all the beautiful things I used to see here.

Ready for framing:

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So pleased that I only missed my friend's son's birth by less than two months. LOL! Oh well, he's not old enough to need these yet anyway. :)

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This was my first pattern done entirely from my iPad, and I couldn’t be happier with the results! I flew through this pattern, so much less time spent staring at the pages of the pattern trying to decide which colour to work with and how best to tackle it. I was terrible for trying to figure out the most efficient way to do thing, loosing ( Read more... )

I have recently revolutionized my cross stitching! Several months ago I had been telling my brother that I wished there was “electronic” paper, a way I could scroll around my patterns rather than working with all those printed pages. I didn’t think anything existed for a tablet that would do what I wanted. I recently acquired a iPad and that got me ( Read more... )

I started a project back in 2015 and while it took almost two years to do i can justifed that by saying it was because I put the project aside for a year to do other things.

A week ago I finally finished my CrossStitch Kit "Yoruban Beauties" It is done on 14 count clear plastic canvas.

This is the project halfway done
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Or I guess this counts as two in one?

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As Promised! I have a picture of Max framed.

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I did in fact end up going back and unpicking that one bookmark.

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It's is done! I'm so happy with the end result and am dying to show it to my aunt! But for her I have to wait until it's framed, I took it to the framers yesterday but it'll still be a couple of weeks before I can show her. I've been trying to post this completed work since Wednesday but Livejournal hasn't been playing nice with me.

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