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Re: TW The Storyteller - my current WIP

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A bit more done:

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The top yellow area of the dragon's 'frill' had to be frogged (Grrr! :evil: ) because I had stitched it one row too low, and it has to be correct because the wing that joins it (page 2) rises into the border. No way to work round it... :evil:
I've moved on to stitching the borders on this page, cos I won't want to do 'em after I've completed the pic - all ruddy quarter stitches! Well, not QUITE all - just seems like it! :lol:

And I STILL haven't got the hang of nice sharp images. :(
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:applesauce: :applesauce: It's coming along nicely!
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I will get that :ribbit: for you fljotsdale, pesky creature!
It's looking really good :dance:
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And I always loved frogs before I knew what they got up to! :lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVDUTAn6Ttg" target="_blank"

Watch Leonard and the young singer! ;)
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Lovely :wub:
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:applesauce: :applesauce:
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Beautiful work. This looks so wonderful. And backstitching is going to make it come to life. The boarder is very pretty even if it is fiddley :applesauce:
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Such a bad :frog:

You've made great progress on this though, in spite of his tricks.
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Lovely progress despite the not-so-good visit by mr. :ribbit: ....this project will really look great...will look forward to the backstitching when the mighty dragon comes to life! :dance: :applesauce: :dance:
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Great progress! Your job looks really cute! :wub: :applesauce:
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More:

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The image always looks better in photobucket than it does here. Not that I'm much good at photography, mind you!

It takes an amazingly long time to do such a small amount!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVDUTAn6Ttg" target="_blank"

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Beautiful ! :applesauce: :applesauce: I love it!
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Looks good! :applesauce:
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But it looks so amazingly good!!!

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Oh but look at how gorgeous it is. :applesauce:
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The knotwork in the border looks so intricate!
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It IS, Mable! It is! full of darned quarter stitches, too... :whine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVDUTAn6Ttg" target="_blank"

Watch Leonard and the young singer! ;)
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The colours are really nice.Your very brave 1)Its a tw 2)on linen?.Me, i,m not so brave :wink: :applesauce: :applesauce:
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Cockneystitcher wrote:The colours are really nice.Your very brave 1)Its a tw 2)on linen?.Me, i,m not so brave :wink: :applesauce: :applesauce:
Yeah, cashel linen. Very uneven thicknesses of thread in both warp and weft, some very thick, some painfully thin, and actual clumping here and there, which I try to tease out so the stitching doesn't look too uneven. And it wasn't bravery, it was ignorance! :lol: I'd never used cashel linen before and didn't know how uneven it was. :roll: But I've sorta got used to it. :wink: I don't think I'll use it again, though, unless I fnd a design I love that demands it.
I always do things like that - jump in with both feet and look afterwards! :lol: It usually works our pretty well in the end (but with quite a bit of cursing along the way!) :lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVDUTAn6Ttg" target="_blank"

Watch Leonard and the young singer! ;)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiP3PkLoMdI" target="_blank
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I can understand that Fljotdale. I have done the same thing. I bought the Margaret Sherry cats and just started stitching with out reading the pattern instructions well I did one cat and that will be the only one. I hate this pattern and it was nothing but a pain in the butt.

I will try not to do that again but I probably will. Well isn't that how you learn new things??????? :D
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