I am doing this for my boyfriends mother as a birthday present as she loves forever friends. I've been with Jayms for three years now and I love his mum, she's such a wonderful lady, and I hope that she likes this. She has a couple of bits of cross stitch in the house which other people have given to her, yet I'm still nervous about making a gift for someone outside of my family. Never done that before.
I want to do it on linen because it's such a soft design, the softness of the linen is perfect...oh who am I kidding? There's a sack load of fractional stitches and I can't face them without 32 count material
The design is solely for Anchor threads, which was a little disappointing as I only own three anchor threads. My local hobby craft mainly sells DMC so that's what I use, bigger selection. So the converting took a while, but you guys helped out big style. Thank you.
Well anyway, her birthday isn't until Early October (Jayms doesn't remember the exact date), so that gives me a nice amount of time to do it slowly, not rush. Well this is what the design will hopefully look like:
Progress pictures will be coming soon.
I'll find a use for them, eventually. I'm resisting putting them onto bobbins and in their own box... not sure why. 
There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with CHOCOLATE! 
great start!
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