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I'm also doing pretty much this very same thing. The advice I was given before graduating the Masters (and having the University doors slammed shut behind me - after support not a strong-point) was - Don't cling to your methods. Methods may change as required by the research and may be entirely different from the PhD. Some people switch from cultural analysis to SPSS! I have heard horror stories of people trying to use previous works as a chapter of the finished PhD and it going very, very badly. Looking back on mine, (MA thesis) it seems quite basic now.
Sorry about below edit, whenever I post is generates two identical posts? The spellcheck is also set to US English.