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wow fantastic

Beautiful!!! You stitch so quickly.

This really is a gorgeous design

Great progress!!

This is beautiful, great stitching

What a beautiful design wonderful stitching and a really neat back. Where did you get the design? I really love dragons and would love to get that design.

Just caught up with this, which is fabulous. Can I ask what working frame or stand system you use?

That is just stunning !

WOW!!!

Beautiful stitching!

Niki x

valb58 wrote:Where did you get the design? I really love dragons and would love to get that design.

The design is by Patricia Allison. It is not out for sale yet--this is the model for the cover of the pattern. Once I finish the model and send it back to her, it takes a couple of months for her to do the outlining & beading and publish it. I can always give you a heads up when it is out since she sends me a copy of the pattern with my name on it.

Serinde wrote:Just caught up with this, which is fabulous. Can I ask what working frame or stand system you use?

Serinde, it's a very simple scroll frame that I bought at Joann's. It originally came with split rods, but DH cut several sizes of dowels for it that I have glued velcro to to attach the fabric. When I bought the frame, I also bought the lap stand attachments for it. They are simply an upside down T that slips onto the scroll. It could be better, but DH made some improvements when he made new stretcher bars & lap stand legs. I'll try to take a picture later. I was going to look through the pictures on my laptop, but unfortunately they're not on this computer since it's new (lother laptop crashed Friday).

Busy_B wrote:

valb58 wrote:Where did you get the design? I really love dragons and would love to get that design.

The design is by Patricia Allison. It is not out for sale yet--this is the model for the cover of the pattern. Once I finish the model and send it back to her, it takes a couple of months for her to do the outlining & beading and publish it. I can always give you a heads up when it is out since she sends me a copy of the pattern with my name on it.

This is simply beautiful! I love it! The sparkly border sets him off beautifully, too. Gimme a heads-up as well, please, Busy_B? I'm a dragon-lover!

Busy_B wrote:

Cecilia wrote: the back is so tidy.

I keep forgetting that the back is visible on the scroll when i take pictures. At least this is a good part of the back. The border area gets a little crowded with all of the color changes.

The back of my 'fljotsdale' dragon is dreadful - there is such a LOT of confetti and small groups of 2 or 3 stitches that the back is just a tangled mess. Your's is so neat!

wow how did you become a model stitcher??

Wow, this looks amazing!!!!!!!!

maemae0410 wrote:wow how did you become a model stitcher??

I just happened to see a request on the forum for a model stitcher and contacted her about it. She wasn't sure if she really wanted a model stitcher since she has always done all of her own work. It's nice since it is at my own speed--she isn't concerned with deadlines like other model stitchers work on.

That would be wonderful, thank you.

Beautiful!

Oh wow this one will certainly be on my wish list when it goes on sale. You are making a fantastic job of it , it's really beautiful

Thanks everyone! I'm glad that every one likes it! When I finish the project and send it off, I will let you know. Patricia usually lets me know when she's done with it and sends a copy of the pattern, so once I know it's available for sale, I'll let everyone know.

This model and the one before aren't things that I would normally stitch, so it's nice to do something different. Of course, DS keeps asking when I'm going to start on his dragon kit (Dimension Gold). I'll start it eventually......