Cross-stitch cafe 2010

shelly

Oops, popped on earlier and caught up on unread posts and forgot to welcome the newbies!

Forgive me and Welcome!

ginnyknit

Many thanks Keiss 21, I have pm'd you

Gosh I love it on here, so its ok to stop doing the washing and cross stitch then?:T Ok as long as you all say its ok, thats the plan then! Actually must go and plant some seeds, stick a chicken in the Sc and then I can do my own thing.

Hope everyone enjoys the day.

Ruth_honey

This is the UFO I'm currently working on. By the dates in my webshots album, I haven't stitched anything on it for 2 years! :eek: Here's what it looked like in 2008...



And this is how far I've gotten as of lunchtime today...




I didn't want to put it down yesterday. I barely stopped stitching from noon until about 9pm. It has plently of blending, the 'lovely' heritage stitchcraft 'squashed' stitches (on evenweave it goes across one thread and up two to make the stitch), so not that easy to follow sometimes.

I forgot to welcome all the new stitches yesterday too. Sorry girls! Welcome to the cafe. Have a :coffee: on me! I'll have to read through the other posts and reply later/tomorrow. Need to get back to my stitching & let hubby on the PC.

harley1

wow, good work Ruth. And it looks lovely. Looking forward to seeing it finished now you have found your mojo again.

Welcome all newbies, this is a lovely place to be - everyone is so nice.

xxx

pm2326

Here's my first update on 'Golden Reflections'

http://s944.photobucket.com/albums/ad290/jandz100/Cross%20stitch/?action=view&current=GR1.jpg

I got bored doing the confetti stitching on the centre piece so moved to page 1..and finished it :j

This is what it will look like when done (hopefully!)

http://www.elite-designs.co.uk/pinfo/XO-GOLDENREFLECTIONS/Golden+Reflections+Cross+Stitch+Chart+Only.htm

sweetcarer

Hi Gang

Here is my update - should of posted yesterday but couldn't find camera. Found it in hubbys work bag.




Not done as much as I wanted tho as was at it every night for a couple of hours. Why is there so much confetti stitching!!!

Welcome to all the new members.

Well done on all of us reaching 100 pages. Was thinking earlier in the week what it would be like if we all got into a chat room one night. There would be smoke coming of the keyboards throughout as we would be chatting away so much.

Kind wishes to all

sweetcarer

nmm

Hi guys, will catch up later on just posting my update. Sadly i didn't manage to get all the bit under the mountains completed but i got most of it done :j Been a busy week so missed 2 days of stitching Anyway i hope everyone is enjoying the brilliant sunny weather and getting in lots of stitching

Last week


This week

maria_and_the_imps

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above is where i was on the 5th and below is where i am now


had a couple of days where i didnt get any done should finish edinBRA tonight and then only algeBRA and back stitch to go
brilliant updates nmm, sweetcarer and pm1326
hope evryone had a lovely evening
xxxx

harley1

MrsM, I've sent you a pm. I'm so sorry I didn't respond before now.

Hope everyone has had a good weekend. Back to work and nursery for us tomorrow, still on the KIT days so back to mummy groups and stuff Tuesday but tonight has to be spent preparing for work so no stitching for me at the moment. Done quite well so far, only got a bit of face, feet and back stitching to do. Be glad when it's finished and the new babys vest is done too. Don't think I'll be using the waste canvas again in a hurry.

Bubbles911

Hello everyone!

Sorry for the delay in posting, but first things first as promised here is the current challenge list - I hope everyone is on target.

Cross Stitch Cafe Challenge – April 2010

NMM to complete my Lions by the end of the month, with a mini
challenge of completing the section under the mountains by Sunday 11th April.

Bubbles911 – To completed the dress by 18th April 2010 and the wings by the end of the month.

Louise Stealing the Moon done by the end of April.

Simac to finish the bears by the end of the month.

Dorastar to get the fairies finished by the end of April.

Witchwoopiggy aims to finish wolves by the end of April.

Little Star 1981 have calendar bears finished by the end of the month.

Thrifty to finish flower fairy by the end of April.

Mrs M Cawber having the left hand side of Orange Lady’s face done by the end of the month.

Sammy Kaye 18 to have the tiger cub completed by the end of the month.

Maria and the Imps to have the dictionary of bras finished by the end of the month.

Harley1 finish the first baby vest and start the second one.

Chicky Wiggle Finish this A4 page of Charlies Ark, complete and half stitches. Backstitch if time allows.

Keiss 21 finish the first chart page of The Astronomer and get through at least half of the next one.

Emzy81 completed 2 A4 pages by the end of April.

Mountain Ash complete the pheasant from cross stitch gold by the end of the month.

Lelc complete the Taj Mahal picture by end of April.

Fun Fair Princess to have all of the stitching completed by end of April.

Elliep to complete Santa (without snow on the ground, metallics or beads) by the end of the month. And to have him fully completed by the end of May.

Kez Baby Babe clouds, bees, french knots and backstitching left to do, so hoping to get it done over the next few weeks.

Crafty Granny complete the purple UFO.

2010 Year Challenge

Louiseey Nightmare before Christmas finished before 31st December.

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KayJay wrote: »

Hello all, I hope you won't mind me joining in?

I have been a regular on the site for ages and never noticed this cafe before!!

Welcome to the cafe! Your designing sounds really interesting, I would love to design one of my dog but not arty enough. As others said we love seeing others work so feel free to post up any pics and you can join in with our challenge if you like.

witchwoopiggy wrote: »

bubbles just to let you know i have just bought a daylight bulb 24w energy saver one from ebay for £2.89 plus £1.89 postage and its brilliant i have got mine in the main light as i dont have a lamp and it makes things so much easyer, and your cross stitchs is coming on so fast, well done for going to the park your are doing so well

That is a fantastic tip, I have just bought one off ebay now, possibly from the same seller as its the same price! Your work is coming along well.

I nearly had a disaster last night, could not put my stitching down (apparently due to elevated bi polar) so was stitching away at 6 with my ipod on when all of a sudden my mum appeared in the room! I jumped a mile and tried to throw my duvet over the angel but in the process ended up throwing a open thread box across the room, half showering my mum and 2 ending up in the dogs water bowl!!! so I have 2 threads drying on the radiator, hopefully they will be ok but luckily one I had finished with and one only has 5 stitches left to do which Im sure can be salvaged. I told her I was working on a card kit and lied that I got a shock as I had been singing along to ipod! She seemed to buy it, I hope.

Anyway it was my brothers girlfriends birthday today so I made up the frames I had made and they actually turned out better than expected. She isnt a crafty person so I wasnt sure if she liked them but she was really touched I had put in so much effort. I am always warey about who I give stitching to as when I was 14 I did a huge birth sampler for my niece and it took 8 months, I gave it to them at her christening and it has been shoved in a cupboard ever since. Their pet rabbit had died shortly before and instead of saying it was nice he said oh another rabbit to eat as the design was of various rabbits and I was really upset so wont make anything for his famly now, although my niece that is 16 might appreciate one now. Anyway here is the frames and Pink_Princess on MSE (bgf) with the completed frames:





And as for the angel I will be finished the dress by 10pm which is a whole week earlier than I set in the challenge. Just as well as I have the wings, lots of beading and a complicated border to do. I have changed quite a lot of the design to make it more sparkly. Still not sure about the conversion, the white (well actually light pink but looks white) just doesnt seem to fit. Im sure the company did it like that for a reason but think it looks odd. What do you think?



If anyone wants adding to the challange list or to amend their challenge pm me. I was wondering if maybe we should give ourselves challange numbers to put in put in our sigs so more people find out about the thread like "cross stitch cafe challange member 4". What do you think?

Happy stitching!