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It's so beautiful and so is your stitiching.

Its lovely and so delicate looking

wow! lovely design, and beautiful work.

This is stunning and you are stitching it so quickly

This is really beautiful, I love the Sweetheart Tree designs but have never stitched any

This is looking so beautiful

Well, I have finished all the stitching! Tonight I am going to iron and then start adding the beads and embellishments! Yay bling!! Since my last update, I have added diamond-eye stitches, the bargello or flame stitches, and the 4-trip half diamond eye stitch, in addition to more cross-stitch, back-stitch, oblique herringbone, scotch stitch and couching over cable.

Here's how the whole thing looks:


And here's a shot of just the bottom (the part I just finished):

It's really impressive, I hope you'll have fun adding the beads!

This is so breathtakingly beautiful!! What a lovely piece of artistry!! Love the fabric and the stitching!!

LOVE it!!!!
I have enjoy the old look of it!!

Thanks everyone I really love the way this is turning out! I'm supposed to be rotating back to my castle project but I'm having so much fun with this one I can't stop stitching it!!!!

oooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that is sooooooo pretty!!!!!

soo pretty

Lovely, with all the different stitches on it!

Oh this is so beautiful, and looks stunning on the fabric!

What a beautiful project, and so wonderfully executed -- it's going to look incredible with the embellishments added!

Can I ask, what is "4-trip half diamond eye stitch"?

Mabel Figworthy wrote:Can I ask, what is "4-trip half diamond eye stitch"?

This is what it looks like:


It's the top-half of a Diamond Eye stitch, and I think it's called a 4-trip because it's using 4 shades of thread, so you thread the needle 4 times.

I love it!

....Did you know how to do the fancy stitches before hand ,or was it something you learnt along the way?.

Cockneystitcher wrote: ....Did you know how to do the fancy stitches before hand ,or was it something you learnt along the way?.

No, I've never done these before, I have just been learning as I go along. I definitely would recommend the Sweetheart Tree charts if you want to learn new stitches, they are very thorough in their explanations and they have very clear diagrams of the stitches. I was pretty intimidated by this project at first because of all the different kinds of stitches, but I have to say it has not been difficult at all, it's just following the chart & instructions.