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Its great to follow your progress through the pictures you have posted, I'm looking forward to seeing it grow.
what a lovely picture - well done
Annie

What a lovely sampler, a family heirloom in the making, well done for sticking with it,
even if there are mistakes when its finished you will always feel pleasure when you look at it
Annie

Wow what a wonderful project, its so therapeutically enjoyable to get stuck into a new hobby.
I'm an all or nothing person, there is no middle ground and I have to have several hobbies going at the same time
I love your work and can't wait to see more pictures.
Annie

Dawn My heart goes out to you - I've been racking my brain to think of something amusing to tell you but there is only one thing that ever stays in my head, its not even really funny but for me its as good as it gets. WAY back in my childhood days the teacher asked us to memorise a poem that would b...

Thanks Wendy and Vannessa for your welcome I have seen very few hares, the two times that I remember were both memorable. The first encounter was at 3 O clock in the morning I saw a huge hare bouncing down the middle of the street that I lived on right in the middle of town, it was such a strange pl...

goodness me I'm amazed at all your replies, I'm truly not used to this, it makes me laugh - I'm on a few different forums and other things like Etsy teams etc and what normally happens when I introduce myself is almost nothing and complete indifference, if I get one response then I'm well pleased. t...

Thanks Lavenderbee for your welcome
I understand the wet and windy its been the same for us
we live at the head of a valley so all the weather blasts up the valley and hits us head on
the views are great though so I don't mind
Annie

wow thanks, I couldn't work it out, I was trying to post actual pictures rather than links to other websites. I'll get mind around it for next time thanks for the link. Thats some fine stitching, a beautiful piece of work, is the centre stitched or embellished,the whole thing looks like a family hei...

Hello Karen and Carole Thanks for replying (hopefully) this is a picture of my latest chart https://www.etsy.com/listing/240452798/the-hare-is-running-races-redwork-cross?ref=shop_home_active_5" target="_blank and this is a piece with a bit more colour https://www.pinterest.com/pin/5621759...

Greetings to you all from the windy hills of the Yorkshire moors I fell in love with cross stitch many years ago when my sister in law made me a cross stitch Christmas card, since then I've completed a few projects and although I have enjoyed stitching my main love is designing cross stitch charts (...