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You've worked really hard, some lovel finishes there!
That stash picture is yummy!

Fantastic finishes - they all look so good together!!

Sorry - but I drooled over your stash ..... hope it drys out soon!!

Time for an update on my two 'daytime' projects:

Chatelaine Swan Lake Mystery - I've already started to fall behind on this one as I've still to finish the gold frame (5 different gold/brown metallics still to come!), and part 2 came out yesterday. The spaces left in the blue area will be filled with beads but I'm leaving those until I've finished the stitching. I've found that I've had to do each colour in the gold section right round to keep consistent the all the 1/4 - 3/4 fractional stitches.

Closeup of the specialty stitches in the first part - tiny rice stitches, algerian eyes and dense rhodes stitches:


Curl Up with A Good Book QS SAL - I'm more hopeful with keeping up with this one as I have two months to do each page/part. Last month I got 48% of the first page done (pretty close to half a page) and I started to fill in some of the small gaps yesterday during lunch at work. However stupid me managed to leave all my threads at home today so unfortunately there won't be more progress today.

Tracy, they are both gorgeous and just love the Swan Lake Mystery with all its fabulous stitches.

Great work Tracy.

Sally

both are soooooooooo pretty--really love the Chatelaine Swan Lake Mystery Great stitching on both projects

Both are very pretty! The specialty stitches in the first one are beautiful!

Just caught up with this thread, I don't know how I managed to miss it before Your completed works are to die for and your choice of frames for them all is wonderful. I especially love the fractals, they are stunning, The Swan Lake design is gorgeous and the speciality stitches are worked so neatly, you are very talented

Wonderful work on both. I love the effect of the speciality stitches, it's going to be a gorgeous piece and the good book one is coming on great!

Your progress on both is great, and I love the fact that the two projects are so different but each in their way so beautiful!

Lovely work

Beautiful. Thanks for the showing the stitches close up... They're really cool!
Faith

Beautiful work

Both of these are looking good. I like the blues in the Swan Lake design!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More progress... (well at least on one of my daytime projects)



The new thinking on my daytime projects is this (note: likely to change a many more times between now and the end of these projects!): I'll completely stitch each new page of CUWAGB when it comes, then with the time left until the release of the next page I'll work on my Chatelaine.

I do really amazed with Chatelaine Swan Lake Mystery...
The detail is so beautiful...

Sounds like a good plan -- and congrats on your progress!

lovely work

Oh this is coming on wonderfully.