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Gah. Was ill all weekend so just didn't have the brain power to count. Managed to do a bit today but I'm now way behind as I'd planned to stitch all weekend and couldn't

Feeling better now and will be back at work tomorrow but so annoyed at colleague who gave me the cold!

So a day late, and not much progress sadly.

Its lovely Hope your better soon

Sorry to hear you've been poorly and didn't feel like stitching! Colds are the worst for it, aren't they? I find if you have your head bent over your project you either get stuffed up and can't breathe or the nose streams.

Your swans are coming along lovely though - nice to see the other birds appearing as well.

i was just browing the gallery and saw this so stalked you through your profile and found this matching topic. I love these swans, will have to keep an eye out on ebay for that magazine me thinks..

just catching up you have done loads!
and the ducks/swans/goose are very relaxing to look at

Great work

The swans are coming along so well since I last caught up with this thread! They're beautiful

And I like the Flower Fairy too, have a big weakness for them ...

Thanks!

I hated flower fairies for ages. I thought they were twee and just awful. Then I happened to see an exhibition of CMB's original artwork and was totally blown away. The one thing they aren't is twee.

Sadly these days the original books get bought up and then separated out into different pages as they can make more money selling lots of prints than they can an entire book.

Sorry to hear you were sick all weekend! I'm sure you'll get back on track in no time.

Oh poor you! Have some to make you feel better.

This is coming on great, it's so lovely!

Hope you'll soon feel better. The design is so peaceful, I love seeing it!

Yes. It's annoying when you plan to do stitching and then you get too ill to bother. That happens to me sometimes. It's a really lovely design with lots of beautiful colours.

It's great progress.

This is some seriously detailed work, it looks great. You are doing a great job with it. I love watching this one grow into something beautiful!

Righto, a good update this week. Seemed to get lots done (well it was mostly half cross) and (drumroll) I have finished the water in this half of the picture! No more 167, 168 and 169 for ages!

I am also now officially half way through!! Which is a trifle worrying as it's taken 5 months to get this far and I have 3 months to do the other half....

Anyway, picture time!



Just started the bushes in the top half.

The small swans aren't finished and aren't very clear yet, but they're slightly better in the close up:

Fabulous progress and I'm sure it'll be done to your time scale, don't worry.

oooooooooh it's beautiful!

yay for finishing the water !

wow you have done loads
dont stress over the deadline im sure it will all be fine just enjoy stitching it!

Great progress! It looks beautiful!