This was my final thread and fabric selection
The fabric is Jobelan 28ct in Bone, which is a pinky brown. The threads are a mix of Threadworkx, Gentle Art, Crescent Colours and DMC.
This is the first heart. I had a moment of panic when I saw the chart/instructions as I think they assume a greater degree of competence than Abi's charts do. If I hadn't already got a fair bit of one of Abi's designs under my belt, I think I'd have given up before starting. I was ok once I worked out what I was doing. Mostly
Berwick stitch. I found this to be slightly challenging, but more that it was fiddly than anything. It has a Partial Eyelet stitch above it.
Norwich stitch. In one of the delicious Threadworkx colours. There is a version of Ray stitch in PTB round it which sparkles beautifully and there is backstitch around it. That should have been in one of the overdyes but I used a DMC substitute instead.
Lazy Daisy stitch. It took me longest to get this one right and I had to redo the first one a couple of times before I realised what I was doing wrong. I love this in the pink Threadworkx. It had more variations on Ray stitch and Eyelet stitch around it.
The beads will be going on once it's all finished as I really don't think my R&R frame will like them
Thanks for looking, and sorry this is so photo heavy.
Looks wonderful, and I'm bookmarking this for the fantastic closeups of your stitches. I also got a bit nervous looking at the directions, since it is just the pictures and not all those explanations like Abi gives about horizontal and verticals etc etc (which took forever for me to figure out). Keep your pictures coming 
. that is the best way to see what it should look like.
,I must be holding my 
) and what beautiful stitches you've made!
