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Re: 3madspaniels 2011 stitching - Mighty Samurai 27/3
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:57 pm
by milkmaid
they are all lovely
love the dog one

Re: 3madspaniels 2011 stitching - Mighty Samurai 27/3
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:22 am
by XandraS
Love the LK finish, and a great start to samurai
Re: 3madspaniels 2011 stitching - Mighty Samurai 27/3
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:02 am
by ~threadbear~
Love the Lizzie Kate one, it's turned out great!
I had to laugh about the crosses poking out of the backstitch. I'm exactly the same. I have to change it and do fractionals to make it look right.
I even had to do fractionals on a card because I hate seeing it look like that.
Great start on the samurai, lovely rich colours.

Re: 3madspaniels 2011 stitching - Mighty Samurai 27/3
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:25 am
by ali-cat
Re: 3madspaniels 2011 stitching - Mighty Samurai 27/3
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:00 pm
by gyork
[quote="3madspaniels"]I've started my long awaited Samurai! This is the progress for the first week. Every stitch of red is a blend, so took a bit of getting used to! I'm really pleased with the shading so far, but might move over to the fan soon to get away from the red for a while! Had a visit from

last night, I was one row out with my counting

Luckily I spotted it quite quickly and only had to frog one colour.quote]
This is looking great, the reds are fantastic. I had the same with the fan on my geishas, had enough of that for a while, so started on the lower half, hopefully no more

visits.
Re: 3madspaniels 2011 stitching - Mighty Samurai 27/3
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:17 pm
by K1nS
Re: 3madspaniels 2011 stitching - Mighty Samurai 27/3
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:33 pm
by coffee_freak
Re: 3madspaniels 2011 stitching - Mighty Samurai 27/3
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 1:17 pm
by vanessanjf
Great start

Re: 3madspaniels 2011 stitching - Mighty Samurai 27/3
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:33 pm
by 3madspaniels
I've finished all the red shades below his belt. The unstitched bits are going to be metallic blends, but I want to finish the bottom of his robe before I do them. The design uses Lazy Daisy stitches in metallic to look like embroidered dragonflies, you might just be able to see the shape from the blank stitches.
The green bit is the start of the handle of one of his swords, and the black is the start of the shading on his sleeves!
Really enjoying this one now!

Re: 3madspaniels 2011 stitching - Mighty Samurai 4/4
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:40 pm
by gyork
paula he is amazing, the reds look fantastic

Re: 3madspaniels 2011 stitching - Mighty Samurai 4/4
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:56 pm
by tiffstitch
Wow, you're quick!! He looks fantastic!

Re: 3madspaniels 2011 stitching - Mighty Samurai 4/4
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:08 am
by Rose
Wow that was fast!!!!!!

Re: 3madspaniels 2011 stitching - Mighty Samurai 4/4
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:13 pm
by vanessanjf
Re: 3madspaniels 2011 stitching - Mighty Samurai 4/4
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:24 pm
by Lili
beautiful!

Re: 3madspaniels 2011 stitching - Mighty Samurai 4/4
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:55 pm
by Cockneystitcher
Like this design.Nice start.
Re: 3madspaniels 2011 stitching - Mighty Samurai 4/4
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:41 am
by meerkat
Re: 3madspaniels 2011 stitching - Mighty Samurai 4/4
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 7:01 pm
by dollystitcher
Re: 3madspaniels 2011 stitching - Mighty Samurai 4/4
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 8:21 pm
by Angel
Love your progress. A friend of mine stitched this a while back, it' such a gorgeous design.
Re: 3madspaniels 2011 stitching - Mighty Samurai 4/4
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 7:35 pm
by 3madspaniels
Thank you for all your lovely comments!
I managed to get quite a bit done this week. I'm loving stitching this one and have decided to get the companion piece "Jewels of the Orient".
Had another

visit this week. The hilt of the sword called for "gold" so I merrily picked up the gold metallic! Wow, blingy! Then I looked at the photo and realised it was wrong, should have been stranded cotton in "gold" colour! The instructions for this one are so complicated! 25 different colour and strand combinations just for backstitch and the other detail stitches!
Anyway, here he is!

Re: 3madspaniels 2011 stitching - Mighty Samurai 14/4
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 8:12 pm
by Stitch
This is another one of the Dimensions Japanese designs I have to have. (Actually, I kind of want all of their Japanese designs.) It's fun watching it grow until I get the chance to work on it myself.
