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[angrboda]

We are currently on holiday in a rather splendid little summer house. There is a great feeling of luxury involved in sitting here stitching in front of a lovely sea view.

I took a new project with me for the sake of simplicity and also because the other one is so close to being finished.

This one is going to be a little fishing boat, which seems rather appropriate given the aforementioned sea view. It's a design by Permin and was featured in Cross Stitch  Collection magazine in May this year.

The photo has turned out a bit dark. I absolutely adore the framing of half cross stitches. It's like part of the design is slightly out of focus, and it rather reminds me of impressionistic paintings. I'm half tempted to do a whole design up that way one of these days just to see how it would look.

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[explorer0713]

I have done a few small things in half stitches only. Here is one I posted about.

[angrboda]

Mine is on aida which seems to show the white through more than your fabric did. I find I'm quite enjoying the effect, really, which is funny because I tend to worry about too much white shining through in the full cross stitches (even though it never does.)

[tarnera]

I can already tell it's going to look great. I love half stitches for texture as well (and because they're so fast, too!)

[angrboda]

I'm quite pleased with it myself. I'm about two thirds through this one now and there's another one to do as well. Matched pair. :) The magazine says about 15 hours work on each. :)