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Looks really good. Your progress is fantastic!!!!

Great progress on the Pirate Ship! Well done!!

The pirate ship is coming on great, keep up the good work

Good progress on the HAED and I love seeing the little details of the pirate ship appearing!


Louise

I bought Paul a few books for his birthday and he doesnt have a bookmark so I decided to make him one

i'm using a cute Penguin aplhabet from Cross Stitcher (which is copyright free, so if anyone wants it, lemme know) I'm doing the letters in a metallic blue, and he chose the green aida.

heres the P, took me about hour to hour and half to complete it. did this last night but i started it at stupid o'clock so only did one letter.

Cute!!

Awww

aww cute

thanks ladies

have nearly finished the A, need to wait for some light effects, then i can fill in the gaps and do the bs, have started the U now

am going for a finishe C_F did on her bookmarks, have found some acid free double sided tape on ebay

Aww, looks cute Lisa!

I got on a roll tonight, and really wanna start the L but i've gotta go to bed. going to my cousins in the morning, the only family of mine I speak to



as I said earlier, the A has no bs until i get the light effect i need for it

its looking great hun

That really looks great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Really lovley and cute!

That's going to be lovely -- aren't bookmarks a great idea? Quick and fun to do, and useful into the bargain!

so cute!!

yeah the bookmark is nearly finished!!!

I had a bit of a mare with the L, it decided to be on the right of the penguin, when all the other letters where on the left. So I frogged it and decided to move it to the other side of the penguin, easy enough I thought. I was planning on doing a mirror image thinking its the easiest option, but then the l was slanting the wrong way. It was slantling like this \ rather than /how it tends to go when you write on.

so my chart has ink, of various colours, highlighters on it to try and find a new L. none of which are working. So i was looking at the other letters and decided on the the straight of the K, as its the same for the B, D, H, J, P,etc.

then I was looking at the T and realised an L is a T with the little horizontal line (the letter are lower case, im just using upper case whilst talking about them in this post ive not gone mad well OK maybe a little ). So I eventually stitched a cross-less T for an L, and it's turned out quite well. Will post a pic tomorrow, hopefully it will be of the finished piece its nearly half 4am, and i have a busy day tomorrow (well today) of sorting benefits, banks etc out *yawn* its gonna be a long day!!!

I now have a new found respect for people altering patterns *cough* isobels name plate *cough* that one letter used wayyyyyyyyyyyy too much brain power lol

And a special thankyou to Busy_B for all her help, in the chat box. Thankyou hun have some and

Sounds like you had a lot of work to make it look just right. It sounds good though so I will look forward to your pictures. Have a nice sleep!!!!

I'm sure it'll be worth the efforts Lisa, it's such a nice piece.
I'm looking forward to seeing the new picture asap!

You're more than welcome for the help! Thanks for the and ! You're the one who came up with the other letter idea. I was just there for support. Can't wait to see the updated pic!