BW we should do that - maybe an Easter one seeing as how we're a bit to close to Christmas now. I've never seen US mags but it does seem to be more of a British thing to do. The wedding sampler had a lot of half stitches - all the little flowers and hearts and the items in the top and bottom borders all had them. The word Wedding was full stitches and the backstitching went around each stitch, but it didn't look blocky kwim? It looked quite effective done like that. The backstitching was all in silver metallic thread which is a total PITA to work with though.

Maz, it wont let me see your's hun.

Squidipa, I'd love to see a pic when it's done