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Take things easy Kitkat and im sending u healing thoughts.

Oh yes, please do let us see the progress.
Hope the stitching will help you to relax back and that you will soon be feeling alot better.

Hope you'll feel better soon....and enjoy your relaxing moments with xstitching in hand! ..will eagerly wait for more progress....take lots of care!

Update time!


I think that I am going to have to alter the pattern though - the tail of the budgie on the right is bugging me. Although I am yet to finish it there is a section on the right which I have finished that just doesn't look right - like it has a bit missing.

My problem is that I feel fine as if I could go to the gym / dance class but I have to wait 2 weeks to 'heal' from having day surgery. At least I was still allowed to do my 10km fun run on Sunday even if I had to walk the whole way.

Oh great progress!
I've had to do that before to patterns. It'll drive you mad if you don't change it.

Anyhow, it's looking great.

Such lovely bright colours, beautiful! I agree with Threabear, if it's bugging you it's much better to change it or you'll never be able to look at the finished piece without those dreadful niggling feelings. Good luck with the designing!

Oh yes I know it well those little quirks in the pattern that just drive you crazy. It took me a few years to have the confidence to change anything but know if it bugs I change. No one else can notice the difference but you see it and it just annoys the heck out of you. So I say change so you can enjoy the result amd the colors are so nice and bright . Lovely.

Wow u have got alot done and have made great progress, well done. I wouold also change the bit that is bugging u.

As to me sayin it reminded me of my nana, u doing these budgies and i was right she had some when i was little.

I don't know if I'd have the confidence to change a pattern other than a color choice, but if it bothers you go for it. Otherwise you'll always look at it and wonder . . . unless you give it away.

You've got a LOT done! Lovely!

Well I have made a start on the January snowman (25ct evenweave over 1! ):

I have wanted to start these for a little while and at the moment I seem to have unintentionally put my budgies on hold

I know that it is only fair that we share around Mr. but can you send him my way when I am working on the 14ct and not the 25 ct? I was sooooooo tempted just to discard the whole project when I realised that I had to remove all the grey across the bottom and all the blue up most of the right side because I had put it one stitch to far to the left and it was going to be too hard to fudge it.

Then I thought about how much time I had already spent gridding up the fabric and how I really really wanted to finish it so it took me 1.5hrs to carefully snip, pull and twease the thread out and then another hour to restitch and you can see the results above.

...I'm so sorry to hear about what Mr. did to you...

...and I want to congratulate you for your progress even with Mr. 's visit. Hope he won't visit you again...

That's a nice start, congratulation for being brave and do evenwave - especially 1X1!

Sory to hear about that nasty !

Regarding altering the budgies I would say go for it otherwise you will never be satisfied with the result.

I have just completed an evenweave picture of herbs and spices and when the chart was laid out my OH noticed that the spice jars had different size labels and the jars were all different and said that it did not look right. I did not like two long chillies (I think they were chillies). So I altered the jars and left out the chillies and I must admit that the end result is now very pleasing.

Rosemary

Yikes 25ct evenweave over 1

Despite a visit from Mr. you’ve made great progress.

Well done

looks lovely!
hope leaves you alone!

Looking good, sorry to hear MR has been visiting u, but u anit alone within 2 nites he visited me 4 times i wasnt a happy bunny at all either.

I really hope he leaves u alone now and lets u get on with it. U have made good progress even though the visited, well done.

This is really going to be fun to watch * crazy lady laugh* .....ha....ha......ha....huh.....huh....ha....love snowman...ha....ha....ha

I will protect you from bad nothing must interfer with snowmen!!!!!


I have a long needle to poke those evil frogs.

I did a few more hours on my first last night and with Rose standing over me keeping away I should have him done soon, so I will leave posting a piccie until then.