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Third project in my rotation - this is Stolen by Rachel Marks -

I bought this in the 30% sale, as it's only small but still $15! Imagine how pleased I was when I found it has only 10 colours - and only a total of 27 skeins for the whole thing!!
BUT as it turns out they have really made use of all 10 colours, lots and lots of confetti And a lot of white-on-white stitching. It calls for Kreinik sparkly, but I went for B5200 instead (that really bright "snow white") as I didn't think people should sparkle!! (now have I given Twilight fans some ideas?! )

For some bizarre reason I thought I'd get the best light for this photo by balancing it on my knee in front of the window (look carefully and you can see all the snow outside!!) but needless to say it's come out a bit weird. I've tried to sharpen it up as best I can.

Let me introduce you to Mr Confetti Butterfly!!



Louise

great start

I like this one Good start

You have made a good start and it is a very pretty design.

This is lovely and a great start too

Oh this looks nice, you made a great start!

That is beautiful! I love it! You are making great progress

Ooh, this is a lovely one and you've made a great start. I must confess, when I saw the title I thought "someone pinched it?"

Sarah Gixxer wrote:Ooh, this is a lovely one and you've made a great start. I must confess, when I saw the title I thought "someone pinched it?"

You're not alone Sarah, I thought Louise was posting to alert us to a secret HAED thief too!

Lovely progress

This one was one of my favorites! I'll definitely enjoy watching this one. So far you've made a lovely start.
I, too, thought that that your HAED had been stolen when I read the header since this was right under the rewards program thread... I was thinking for a second that someone had stolen your images to try to win a free pattern!
Faith

You've got alot done on this already!

Sarah Gixxer wrote: I must confess, when I saw the title I thought "someone pinched it?"

Never thought of it like that!! Well I don't want to worry everyone, so how about inverted commas around it?

Louise

great start louise you have picked a lovely chart!
how many pages is it?

I would have been estatic too if there were so few colors..but the confetti doesn't sound all that appealing but will probably look great! I can't wait to see more of this one and hopefully all the white on white won't drive you crazy!

A very subtle design, and I think it's a good decision not to have sparkly people!

What a gorgeous picture! And such a great start too. I think you made the right decision about the sparklies though.

Very nice one. I love these monochrome pictures.

That picture does remind me of the Twilight Series. Nice design though.