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I figured this was a perfect starter kit to get me back into the cross stitching niche. And plus it was cute and made me giggle when I saw it. It's part of the "for Dummies" line.

Its a little rough in some spots and I'm still figuring out the best way to go about completing certain sections but I'm happy with the progress thus far.



The design:


The only reason I stopped working on this tonight was because my neck started to get a bit achy. I'm excited to continue it tomorrow.

very cute design and great progress on it too!! Looking forward to your next update

This is very cute and makes a great starter design!!!!!

Very cute and indeed a great starter for anyone going into (or back into) cross stitching!

Great start! Looking forward for more updates!

That's very pretty! Hope you can get this done without getting to many achy necks!

I think that this is the second design that I stitched when I first started to cross stitch, the first one was a small wedding sampler.

Rosemary

I'm starting to adore hummingbirds I think
This one is adorable

That's pretty, and great to get you back in the swing of things

That's a lovely design, and you've made such a good start !

Can I give one tip which is really really easy but makes a stitcher's work look instantly neater? Make sure the cross stitches all go in the same direction, so that the top half of every cross stitch looks the same. It doesn't matter if all the tops go like this ///// or if all the tops go like this \\\\\, if they all go in the same direction they catch the light in the same way and make it look very neat and smooth

Very nice design! I saw some humming birds last night at my father in law's house.. they had a humming bird feeder Very cute little birds.. although their wings make them sound like mini planes lol
Faith

lovely project!

Thank you for all of the suggestions. This little section I finished I wanted to figure out which direction I would prefer to stitch and think I found it. So I did my best to keep the stitches consistent. I wanted to get a little bit more done then I did, but I'm happy with the results.

I am really impressed with how much you have done and how neat the stitches are especially for a first project.

Rosemary

Really pretty design and you are doing very well with it, I look forward to seeing more of this one

Got a bit more done tonight. I noticed I miscounted on one spot but I left it as you can't really tell.

very nice progress

Looking great and well done for not panicing about a little miss count. In cross stitching you do not make mistakes but have happy accidents which makes your particular piece of stitching unique and "yours".

Loving this.

Rosemary

Beautiful

Great work! I agree with Rosemary, it's those little things that are not quite like the chart that make the project unique