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This is wonderful, and I can see battlements!

pamelam wrote: My mom's grandparents were from Scotland and England so I love to see things from there.

Any idea where they came from?

This is excellant so much work and to finally see a bit more then just the sky!!!!!!

Serinde, no I have no clue where they came from Years ago when I was a young teenager my mom's brother traced the family tree, but I only had a mild interest in it then. I don't even know where the paperwork is from my uncle's search. All I know is the last name of Scottish relatives is Coombs and the English is Foster. I will definitely find out some day as I am very interested now.

Thanks for all the encouragement, everyone! I am super-excited to see the castle developing! Although, there are a LOT of confetti stitches in that area. It does make a nice break from all the blues and whites, though!

I was excited to see it appear as well!
Honestly, it's really coming on great, well done.

This is really beautiful! I love the colours of the sky

I've just caught up with this thread. Wooohoo! The castle has appeared! You're reaaly progressing well with this. This is going to be stunning when it's finished.

I can see the buildings appearing!! looking fab!

wow you have done alot since we last saw, great work

Amazing picture I like nature and houses pictures

OK, it has been a really long time since I have updated this one.......I have been working on it over the last few months, but haven't had a lot of time to get online. I am finished almost the entire top row - there are just about 15 confetti stitches I'm missing. That is about 8 pages. I was getting worried while stitching this because there are SO MANY confetti stitches, when you look at it closely it doesn't seem to look the way I think it is supposed to. But when looking at it through the camera lens, I realized it is coming out just fine, I must be just too close!!

I have also discovered that I do not think I like working on projects this big. I keep having to switch and do smaller projects to keep my motivation going. I will definitely finish this, since it is a gift for my mom, but I think in the future I will stick to smaller projects. Anyway, here is the whole thing:



And here is more of a close-up on my recent work:

Beautiful!!

This looks fabulous!!! You're right though, sometimes when you're stitching you tend to wonder about what weird colours you're using, and about random scattered bits of confetti - you have to take a step back and look at it afresh and then it really pops!

Louise

I think it looks fantastic.
Keep going, it will be so worth it at the end.

It can be difficult to keep your motivation going with such a large project (unless you're a dedicated HAEDer), but it's certainly worth it, what you've done so far looks gorgeous!

Oh wow a great update. You have done so much!!!!!!

Beautiful!!!

That's really nice - lloks like it's taken from a work or art rather than a photo.

Beautiful picture of a magical place. I love castles and quite envy you your project You're doing really well with this and it's looking stunning can't wait to watch further progress on this