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Very good start, Angel. Lovely colours

Good start Angel. This is a lovely design.

What a lovely design. It is something that I would like to stitch.

@Kazzi
When I was little, I mean like 4 or 5, my sister had an asthma attack. She was taken into hospital and had tubes stuffed down her nose and throat. I went to visit her once and I can remember how she was laid in the bed, white as the sheets, barely moving. In so much...what I thought was pain, could have been discomfort. And my mummy and daddy were all fussing over her. Like more than they ever had done when she was sick. I thought "I'm going to loose my baby sister! Please! Please, if there is a god, let her live. I'll do anything, just don't let her die" I prayed every night she was in hospital. I don't know who I was praying to, because I didn't believe in God, but I'd been going to Sunday school from 3 months old, so I had a concept about it all. My family didn't understand that I knew about death, of course I did, it was covered in Sunday school! So they never reassured me that she wasn't going to die. They knew she wasn't because it wasn't half as bad as my innocent mind thought. But it scared me half to death!

Still, I may not believe in the Christian god, but on the off chance that someone did step in and help her, I refuse to go back on that promise. She could do pretty much anything and I'd hate her for about a week. And then I'll just remember her in that hospital bed and instantly forgive her. My mum thinks it's stupid how much that affected me, but I can't hate her because I already took myself to the point where I was in danger of loosing her and it was just too much to bear. So I'll never give up on her.

Gosh, talk about therepy!

Thank you ^_^ I'm actually loving this design! It's such a pleasure to stitch!

Thats a lovely kit.. your doing really well with it I've not seen it before where did you get it??

I bought it off of ebay I believe.I've had it almost as long as I've been on here. But it's a Jannlyn kit so I'm sure that you can get it off sewand so...

ahh I might have to keep my eye open for that kit, when I'm on ebay.... might add it to the never ending 'want to stitch' list

It's called fairy friends.

The ebay seller I use is caryn_and_richards_cross_stitch 35523
100% posative feedback and highly recommended, if I got it off ebay, I got it from them.

I really like this chart you have chosen. It's such a lovely sentiment. I hope you enjoy stitching it.

ohh well done, it's coming fab!

Going to finish the dress today, then work on her skin. I'm wondering if I should complete her before moving on, or leave the wings till last as they're metallic threads.

She's growing fast! As for which bits to do when, I generally work metallics as if they were not, if that makes sense -- what I mean is I do them in whichever order I think will work best, whether they're in metallic or stranded cotton. The only thing I tend to leave till last are beads, but even there if it's just a few beads in an otherwise stitched bit (like the ones I used as accents on the holly berries) I'll do them as I go along.

Ahhhh Mabel, that made perfect sense. I usually do it the same way, just those instructions...perhaps I should just file them away and ignore them?

Personally I would love to see the wings.. so my vote would be to do them straight away!
Faith

The wings are tipped in the same colour as the fairies dress ^_^

Ok, I shall stitch them after her skin. Going to leave the couching and back stitch till later though.

Excellent progress already Angel.

Oh this is really fantastic and your working it up quite fast!!!!

Thank you ^_^