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Very very pretty update!! This is coming along fantastically!!

What a lovely design

It is so pretty. You have made a lot of progress on it. Almost done. I am looking forward to seeing your plan for it is.

Carole

Me too, you're whetting our appetites with your vague "plans"! Looks fantastic too!

Good update and such gorgeous rich colours in this one. Looking forward to your "plans for this one".

Sally

Very pretty!!!!!!

It worked
I bought this DMC storage box in May last year from Shelley at Sewing Cafe when she had an offer on for us stitchers here. I made a new cord for the wooden heart closure after Mabel had mentioned French Knitting.I dug out my french dolly,used a spare skein of DMC variegated floss which as it happens matches perfectly with the design I eventually chose..how lucky is that, as I made the cord in Autumn 2011!
I padded the design to make it stand out a bit and got rid of the perspex lid which was scratched.
I am a very happy stitcher

I wondered what you had in mind for this design! It looks beautiful Lesley !

Thank you Amanda

that is just a fantastic finish Lesley!! beautiful!!!!!

Looks great!!

One question, what's french knitting?

That looks gorgeous
Hope the eyes are behaving themselves. I've got floaters too. Occasionally they seem to join up and I end up swatting imaginary insects flying past

Fantastic!!!!

That is a lovely way to finish that piece. So pretty.

Carole

Wow, Lesley, it looks so beautiful! It all matches perfectly!

That looks beautiful!! Great job!

Thank you,everyone for your lovely comments.

destructiveernie wrote:One question, what's french knitting?

This is french knitting Emma http://www.readicut.co.uk/French-Knitti ... -PRC13308/ it is easier to illustrate than explain it's rather addictive once you start and it grows and grows. It would make a great trim to finish off stitching projects instead of using ribbon or ric-rac

mags wrote: I've got floaters too. Occasionally they seem to join up and I end up swatting imaginary insects flying past

I know exactly what you mean mags.

Oh My. When I was in 3rd grade, we had to keep these in our desks and if you finished your work early then you had to work on these. Then when they got long enough you ended them somehow and sewed them together to make place mats and things like that. The girls didn't used to mind, but the boys hated it. My teacher also used it as a form of punishment if the class didn't obey and would keep us in at recess making us sit quietly and knit. The shame of it is, that all she did was connect this craft with punishment for generations of 3rd graders. She was a strange lady anyway. I never heard it called French knitting before. It really is a easy, useful craft with lots of other ways to use it.

Carole

Totally awesome finish with the box, just beautiful!!

Beautiful finish with the box!! I wondered if that's what you were planning, it just seemed "box-sized".

@Carole: How horrible! Not that you had to craft, that your teacher associated it with punishment.