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I love the contrasts in your mother and child designs

Here's one with rather less contrast, but I like the almost "watery" quality of it -- it's stitched on 20ct white aida using Caron Impressions (038 Morning Mist) and DMC blending filament (4300 pearl):



And here are the four together, to give some idea of their relative sizes (sorry the pic isn't very clear) -- from left to right they're done on 18ct, 20ct, 22ct and 24ct:



I was rather surprised at how little difference there was between the 22 and the 24ct!

They are all beautiful

Beautiful stitching Mabel

These are gorgeous!!!!
Faith

They're beautiful. My favourite is probably the one on the red background for the contrast, but it's closely followed by the cream background as I love the variegation in that thread.

Your mother and child designs are gorgeous, my favorite is the one on the congress cloth, so striking.

Can't wait to see more of your bookmarks, great start to them.

And I really love your folk sampler, lovely finish.

Thanks for the picture of them together--they look so very pretty!! I really do love that design--can I be bold and ask where you got it from and if it is still available?

They are all lovely Mabel, I would have a hard time choosing which I like best so I'm going to stay at loving them all!

Simply beautiful Mabel

Karen, it's based on a freebie that Charmagne found for us, I think the link is in her thread, but I did make changes to it, so when you download it you'll have to play around with it to see what your version is going to be like!

They look great Mabel

They are all wonderful and each one has something special to make you say oh I love that.

Mabel Figworthy wrote:Karen, it's based on a freebie that Charmagne found for us, I think the link is in her thread, but I did make changes to it, so when you download it you'll have to play around with it to see what your version is going to be like!

Thanks for the info Mabel---I'm on dial up so loading pages is very slow--haven't located the thread yet that it was in but hopefully will find it soon

Wow! Thanks for showing them all together. They are all so beautiful. They each have their own special qualities too because of the different effects of each one.

Thanks to Mabel and Charmagne I now have this chart too---will be stitching it up soon--and likely trying variations of my own

Lovely stitching. The Mother and child is a really beautiful design.

It was lovely to see DH's parents over the weekend -- not quite so leisurely as I'd expected, as MIL was rather glad to share the cooking as we had guests on the Saturday, but very relaxing. I managed some stitching too and finished another Madonna; they are so nice and unchallenging to stitch and i find it a little difficult to concentrate at the moment.

Anyway, here it is, on my last bit of 22ct aida, using Dinky Dyes silk and Madeira blending filament:

very nice! I'm definitely going to have to do up a couple of these soon!! Nice stitching Mabel!

The Madonnas are all lovely - what a great range of colours. I love the varigated threads.