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I'd love to see that. I'm sure he never imagined the following he would have.

Very nice work John! The inlay looks flawless. Bonzer!

I definitely prefer to keep it fun myself. Take care Kevin.

Sounds like a business opportunity to me.

Bob and of course a “Happy Little Tree.” I used an image I found on Pinterest. I added the tree and changed the font. I connected the face to his hand but it took away from it so I let his face be a floater. I’m convinced watching him paint would lower your blood pressure.

Excellent job! If you lived near a beach you could set up a store and sell those made to order.

Beautiful! Love the flowers. That wouldn’t be in my skill set since I can’t even draw a flower. Fun stuff to look at though. I’m sure it’s enjoyable work.

Really really nice! I love that it’s made from scrap.

Great job on a very nice pattern.

Love that one Paul.

Everything I've done lately has been with a site called Cute Cutter. https://cutecutter.com/ It's like you said with what you're using. You can upload a picture, preferably close up and as high def as possible and adjust a few setting it has, called blur, edge contrast, threshold, and remove speckles, but it only gets you to a starting point. Then there is a slide adjuster that lets you transition the image from the original to the pattern where you can see both at the same time and you make adjustments manually with "touchups" I didn't have a teacher, just played around with it for hours and hours with my laptop while sitting with the fam watching TV. Very very often I give up on a picture because it just doesn't work well with this program. I'm sure there is much better software out there and I'd love to buy something, I just haven't really done much looking. This site is free except I make a donation from time to time. You're also limited with fine adjustments with this site and sometimes when I've done all I can do I download it and make adjustments in Paint 3D. I might actually spend 4 or 5 hours on a pattern so it's tedious but I enjoy it as much as cutting sometimes.

Nice!

That’s a cool project! I’m sitting by my father-in-law’s pond right now. Not a nibble so I decided to give it up and relax.

Looks great. Good to get some shop therapy.

It's a pretty strange movie but has a pretty big following. One of the actors in it is Andre The Giant, the wrestler from years gone by. It pretty silly but I've enjoyed watching it through the years with kids and grandkids.

Found an image online used for tee shirts, added the text with Inkscape and made the image scrollable as I cut. This one, one of my kids may actually want when I kick the bucket.

This movie is The Princess Bride. Not at all your typical romantic comedy. Lots of people, including me, love it but it's very wacky and different. You may or may not like it, but I doubt you'd nod off.

Not Ghost.

Anybody familiar enough with this 1987 romantic comedy to recognize this yet? It would be "inconceivable" if you do.

Beautiful work on both of those Barb!

Those are really cute, Barb!

Thanks Melanie. If you're ever interested in a copy of the pattern just let me know.

Thank you!

Henry "Hank" Aaron. Played most of his career with the Atlanta Braves. 755 career homeruns. He broke Babe Ruth's record of 714 in 1974. I was 13 at the time and remember friends explaining why Babe's record was better, which they probably heard from their dad. At the time I just figured I didn't know enough about baseball to understand. Pretty sure it had a lot more to do with color than baseball. Proud I got to see him play.

Great! Lots of work go into those sales.