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Lisa, you've done loads on this! You really are whizzing along. well done!

It is wonderful. So full of action. Sorry aboutt your wrist take care of it.

You're making great progress, Lisa, there's loads done since I last looked!

Sorry to hear about your wrist, I hope it soon feels better.

Sorry to hear about the wrist -- but golly you've made quick progress on this!

hope your wrist feels better!
great progess

I'm late to this thread - your pirate ship is fantastic!! The Cut Thru's are bittersweet projects I found (did the Gypsy Wagon recently). The colours and detailing are a joy to work with, and the design lends itself so easily to doing a little bit here, alittle bit there - there is so much variety. But I found the backstitching a pain in the bum frankly.

How are you getting along with the dual chart thing? I abandoned the cross stitch-only chart and worked only from the backstitching chart. And I struggled too with the lack of overlap between pages.

Best of luck, it's a great design.

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thanks everyone!!

im liking the dual chart, i colour in the background and then refer to the backstich one and highlight the lines ive done. some of the symbols though dissapear under the back stitch lines so I found it a lot easier to use both charts.

the back stich was great, all lined up with the holes until i got to the pirates face/beard, i had to make all new holes. I may get a sharper needle for backstitch, what number shall i get??

never leave a 2yr old alone in the room with your and a wax crayon



it looks a lot worse in real life!!

oh shite! will it be covered over by sewing?

im hoping the sail will cover the majority!!! and if doesnt, and it wont wash out, I will tell Shaun his sister wanted to contribute, she looked sooo proud of herself though!

Ah how cute!! Ah sure she wouldnt understand at all prob thought she was doing great!! The backstitch looks great...

It's starting to look great! Bummer about the extra design added to it!!

YIKES!! Well at least you know what you are going to do if it can't be covered up! Hopefully it will all come out okay in the end.

Oh no Lisa that's a nightmare Has it touched any of the stitching or is it all on the fabric?

yep theres some on the sail, but shes smudged it so it looks like a light shade of pink in the sail!

OMG

You're being very good about it. I'd've died!!

her little face was like "look what I drew mommy!" she looked sooo proud of it!!! I couldn't stay mad at her!!!

all the back stitch is finished

I'm sorry to hear about your little artist. I know I always worry when I leave my in the room with my 3 yo daughter. She usually takes the thread out of the needles on my pako organizer and then has fun with the scissors--usually with the threads and my pattern. I hope it washes out for you!

Well you are much calmer then I would have been and my little one would have been very aware of the fact that she had done a very bad thing. I hope you can cover it all up and bless your patients.

they had both been "helping" me all day and at this point I was like "oh I give up" did them some milk and placed them both in bed!!