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I have been planning to do some AOY designs from the London series for a year now. I got the charts from Rosemary last year, and I even took one of them all kitted up to the UK with me last summer but never got around to starting it, not ever since.
Seeing Rose's wonderful AOY finally made me take a step and I have started the Big Ben.
I simply love how this forum can be an inspiration!

Two days' work:



I didn't have all the colours in my stash that I would need, so had to change them but I hope this will not make it worse. For example, for the white I would need light mauve and mauve, but I had none, so I am using grays.

I'm sure it will be fine

It looks great so far

your changes look fine so far! from another English teacher

Great to see these being stitched again. If you need any of the colours at all just let me know which numbers and a rough amount as I have loads of the AOY colours.

Rosemary

Forgot to say that as an avid fan of AOY I love to see different colours used or different parts of patterns used because this individualises the picture for the stitcher and makes each one unique. That is also my excuse if (heaven forbid) I make little errors in my stitching. I say "this picture is now unique to me" my OH laughs at me but then spend a little time looking for the difference which is usually too hard for him to find because it is only an odd stitch or two that is in the wrong place.

Rosemary

I agree with Rosemary! I love to see when people have made designs their own The design is looking great so far
Faith

what a sweet design and the color changes look great to me!!

It looks wonderful!!!!! I am making some changes also to the colors!!!! This is a great start.

It looks very sweet so far!!

I finished this sometime last week, but it took me some time to gather the energy to take a photo.
I have some other stuff to stitch now, but more is to follow...

Oh so very very cute!!!!!!

So cute great finish

Great finish, so very cute!!

What a lovely design. well done

Congratulations! It's very sweet!

gorgeous!!!

Great finish well done