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I'd think it would be neat to do pictures you charted yourself - you're guaranteeing a one-of-a-kind piece that way!

Oh I love this - Treebeard is one of my favourite characters from the whole of the Lord of the Rings (the other being Aragorn yum!). I'm looking forward to seeing this progress. You have made a great start.

What a fantastic design and you've made a brilliant start on it.

Can't wait to see this one grow

here we go as of 3rd June (today now being 4th June to me)----oooops no that was a mistake.... just checked the date its is the 3rd of June! My brain is going to mush.



It's starting to develop well in spite of several stitches that could be wrong. eeek!!!

I discovered I have 2 symbols similar......
a full stop and a commar
Stupid PC stitch!!!!
I printed the pattern out on the black lazer printer.

I'll be going to the pattern I saved on the computer and going through the pattern and seeing what stitches are fullstops and highlighting them in colour on the printed grey scale chart.

Hopefully I haven't stuffed the whole thing up!!!

Oh no! I have to admit that some of the symbols on PC stitch arn't the best and I have made the same mistake in the past!

Its looking really good though - so interested to see how well it comes out from the picture. Looks very effective already - well done!

4th June already?! It's only the 2nd here! And it's looking great, i hope you get the symbols sorted out

Ok do not panic. I made a mistake on the date. I'm not seeing things right. Only squares with little symbols are clear to me now!

I have figured out the symbols.
All the full stop sypmbols are in a section I have NOT done so mistakes are minimal now.

*****Sighing with realief****

Yes it was a big colour difference....
fullstop was green
comma was gray

So problem has been solved. yayyyyy!!!!

Yeahhhhhh That is very good news!

Thats great news, u have made very good progress on this, well done.

Oh that's a relief for you!

You've made a great start on this, good progress!

That's really a relief! I can see soooo many shades of greens, grays and browns...looks too confusing! I have to applaud you for this very complicated project! Happy stitching!

Great news don't want Mr to come for a visit he is hard to get rid of.

This design is looking better all the time.

Re similar symbols. I am often to be found stitching one particular designer's stuff, and you get used to the way symbols are used. She's very good: a little dot is always white; a black square is black and so on, with basic colours. I then change to a design by another person and I'm all at sea!! That little dot becomes yellow or blue! I suspect it's who's at the back of it, trying to make me frog!

Great progress
I have a theory about the date thing, it is all part of a cunning plan to move ahead in time so that you can turn up early to raid Rose's stash

Glad you managed to sort out those annoyingly similar symbols in time! I find that my cross stitch program chooses the most idiotic symbols sometimes, but fortunately I can choose to change them before printing (I tend to print coloured charts anyway so that's how I get round it ).

What I find annoying about some charts you buy is that the symbols aren't chosen to represent dark & light -- if it's a good chart (by my definition, that is -- others may like them differently!) you can tell by the symbols which are going to be the darker parts and which the lighter, and ideally you should be able to 'see' the design quite clearly when you look at the chart from a little distance. What do you think?

ohh i had a time with symbols too..
i found a design and I wanted it flipped around..
a fairy..goes next to another fairy..i wanted them looking away from each other,
(ok it makes sense to me..the way it would look on the wall..lol)
so I scanned the pattern into my program and flipped it.
figured the sybmbols would be ok..
well I the only one that wasn't was a
/ and the \ got reversed..
good thing i realized it before i stitched the whole mess..lol

Glad you figured out the symbol thing early on and that it wasn't disastrous! Similar symbols drive me nuts next to each other. The one I'm on now has circles right next to circles in squares. You have to really pay attention, they are so similar!

Your progress is looking great!

Jilly wrote:Great progress
I have a theory about the date thing, it is all part of a cunning plan to move ahead in time so that you can turn up early to raid Rose's stash

yeap and already done that - aye Rose!

mandyrob wrote:The one I'm on now has circles right next to circles in squares. You have to really pay attention, they are so similar!

my kingfisher has some three-quarter stitches (so two small symbols in one square) where one is a black square and the other a black circle