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Hi everyone, I've been away from stitching for a while now and now the bug is making a return - at last
I have decided to start Mini Citrine by Rachel Anderson, I started her last night and so not much progress made yet. I received all the floss for the design today and the colours are wonderful, I am itching to see progress

Here she is:



I am starting on page one, I thought the background would be fun to stitch as I love the art deco style stonework, and I love the colours in the fairy herself, and her dress - wow.

Anyway, I shall update my progress regularly, she is a large design and I'm stitching her on 18 count fabric, so she'll be huge when complete.

Thanks for looking

That is beautiful. The colors are just lovely. I can't wait for your updates.

Carole

Very very pretty!!! This is going to be so fun to watch!!

What beautiful colours and so vibrant. I can understand you wanting to start her right away.

Sally

What gorgeous, gorgeous colours! I could even forgive the wings on this one...

The Art Deco is lovely and it makes such a gorgeous contrast to the stunning dress that she's wearing.

I'll look forward to your updates

How lovely and peachy she looks!

Beautiful choice! I hope you get along well.

This a gorgeous design.. it will a peasure getting to watch you stitch this up
Faith

Great colours, and I love the stone work as well. Look forward to your updates.

Niki x

The colors are amazing!

Fabulous design, I look forward to your updates

What lovely colours. It's a very pretty design

Lovely design. I love the contrast in the colours in this one. Look forward to the updates.

Thanks everyone, it took a while to choose the design I wanted to stitch, but I loved how she looked a bit like peaches and cream and thought I would give her a go.

I was tempted by the mini version but as I wasn't sure how much detail would be lost, I opted for the full size.

Hopefully a progress pic will come very soon

Gorgeous deisgn. I cant wait to see your progress

Beautiful choice of chart - I look forward to seeing your updates!

After feeling somewhat intimidated by the full size version, I thought I would change to the mini as it seemed much more manageable for me. It is 16 pages instead of 52 so much better.

I'm expecting the detail to be not as good as the full size, but so far I'm really happy with how it's turning out and so I thought I would post a progress pic.



I need to order more threads to fill in the holes,but I can see the stonework taking shape already. I looks so much better from a distance rather than up close, the butterfly isn't all that detailed but as it's such a small part of the design, the larger butterflies and the fairy seem promising.

Thanks for looking.

Great start on your mini