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Its brilliant Lisa

Love it great stitching

Glad to see this one back! Great progress!

Lisa I really admire your patience in stitching this fabulous yet complicated design!

Lisa your making great progress

Lisa I love the ship it must be great to stitch Alex is 14 now but would have loved this when he was younger

This looks like great fun and so much detail

great work so colourful

Great work!!!

thanks everyone. Shaun keeps coming up to me when he sees me working on it and asks me to take it out the hoop so he can look at it, and spends 15mins just pointing going "arr" and telling me about all the pirates, fish, birds and cat and mouse

so beautiful work.

Great work Lisa. Such a quirky design. I like it.

Very nice design. It looks like one that has taken a while. I admire your patience

Lisa, your Shaun reminds me of my Alex when he was about 3. I was doing a large cross stitch of loads of animals and he would squeeze himself into the corner behind my sewing chair. He would stand for hours with his thumb in his mouth in fascination as the animals appeared.
He would hate me for telling you this as he is now a strapping 14 year old who towers over me!!
He is still a big softy though!

aww bless him, he did climb onto the sofa next to me the other day and watched, then got bored and played with his cars..

Maggie is getting a bot jealous and keeps asking for a fairy i have the disney princesses, which is in the process of being kitted up, for her

Your kids sound so sweet Lisa! When mine where little, they were so used to seeing me stitching all the time. When my son was around 6 he wanted to do it too, so I gave him a square of fabric and some thread, and he drew a design of his dad, and stitched along the lines of his drawing. I'll have to put up a picture of it sometime. I'll look forward to seeing the disney princessess you're going to do for your daughter!

oh please do!!! it sounds great!!

i have a tinkerbell thats half way through so i will finish that off when i finish the pirates so she doesnt feel too left out

just the backstitching left on this page the end is in sight!!

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It looks so great! Is there a whole lot of backstitching to do?