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It's done! We went to see my parents yesterday and my Mum always gives us loads of stuff to bring home, so it was easy to conceal it in a bag of magazines and other bits and pieces she had for me as the frame for this is not huge - I think it's about 10 x 15 inches or something like that. I'm well pleased - the framer picked out the colours from the stitched border for the frame and I said not to bother with a mount as my own border was enough.

I had to take the photo in my yard as I couldn't get a good one without the flash spoiling it.

Oh, it looks great, Sarah!

Looks great and the frame really sets it off. Your OH will be really pleased with this, you just have to try and keep it secret now!

That looks great Framed Sarah, it really suits it. Well done.

Wow that looks fantastic, he will love it

Fabulous Sarah. Itr has really come to life now it is framed.
OH is going to love it.

Beautiful finish Sarah! The frame looks great, really sets the design off. Well done

Hes going to love it! Great work Sarah its brill

wow I love it!

Looks great, and the colour of the frame is spot on. Really like this

Excellent Sarah. Great stitching. And didn't your framer do well!

Looks good framed Sarah.

It looks fabulous Sarah

Gorgeous, and you're right it doesn't need a mount, it's complete and perfect with its own border!

Sarah Gixxer wrote:my Mum always gives us loads of stuff to bring home

My mum is exactly the same - I'm pleased it all went to plan, and he looks great!!

Louise

Thank you, everyone.

Well, I managed to smuggle him into the closet at home where I keep all the Christmas decorations and the hoover and stuff like that, until OH left this morning and he wasn't discovered. I'll get him wrapped up and hide him again until Christmas.

Louise, our goodies this weekend included a box full of ginger cake my Mum had baked, a Wan Chai kit for making chicken kung pao, some magazines, some cucumbers (Mum grows them), a bag of apples (off their apple tree) and a box of fresh figs. Yummy!

Plus I got a huge surprise - it's my birthday in 2 weeks and I know parents have framed my Magpie cross stitch for me, but Dad said that is actually a present from Mum and would I like him to buy me a washing machine since my old one is kaput? You'll understand this is fairly astonishing when I add that Dad has always been a bit of a tight-wad and usually gets you a CD or something of equal value for a gift, both birthday and Christmas.

In addition, Dad has given OH a laptop! Dad bought this 18 months ago and it went wrong, he paid a complete "muppet" who supposedly knows about computers to try and fix it and said "muppet" made things worse. Dad was about to chuck laptop in the skip and has bought a new computer, but then thought OH might like said laptop for "spares" or something as OH is also a bit of a computer whiz. OH has looked at laptop and discovered all it needs is a recovery disk and it will be as good as new! Dad still says he can keep it though. Blimey!!!!!! Dad has vowed to call OH for future computer problems, instead of throwing money at "muppet". OH promises to fix computer in exchange for a box of my Mum's ginger cake!

Dragon looks great Sarah.
I too can usually smuggle stuff in from visits to mums , but sometimes he looks

That is a great finish and a perfect frame to compliment the stitching!!!!!