Cross-stitch cafe 2010

MRSMCAWBER

Morning all

I did a stitch a photo of me n hubby on our wedding day -I just used one of the "stitch-a-photo" pre-paid envelopes, where you send it away and they sort it out and send you the chart back... I always worry about the cheaper ways of doing it -not that I have tried one mind
There is an awful lot of 1 of this and 2 of that -but thats the same with the heaven n earth designs :rotfl: ,
mum has done one of someones dog and a coupe of family ones from my wedding -the knack is to try and get a pick with as many colours in as possible -I think the programme uses 69 colours (well a set number anyway) -so when mum did the black n white dog on grass -she had loads of shades of each colour -but then with the wedding picks there were lot more colour variations -so it was "easier"
Right -back off to my sewing :T

Jigga1985

Afternoon Everyone - Thanks for everyones Replies - I am really happy with the design that I bought the colours that they use are so vibrant and Elliep I really agree with your comments and because of this it is such a joy to stitch
Well Its snowing here in South Wales so its definately a day to try and make a dent in the CStitch (even though I feel as if I am the slowest stitcher going!)

Gem x

Jigga1985

Elliep

You're really coming along with this and its an amazing design - Well done its really looking good now the face stitching really adds to it also :T

Jigga1985

chickywiggle wrote: »

i fell in love with the 'cut thro' ones too. managed to get my hands on the princess and pirate ship charts for free :-) they are on this years list too. I think i need another 300 odd days in this year.

Oh how lucky are you to have them for free - Jealous! I really enjoy the designs so after I have finished this one (Ill have an extra 300 days along with you I think!) I will start another one

Gem x

maria_and_the_imps

afternoon everyone, hope all are well, it not snowing here at the moment but is supposed to later so me and kids decided it was the perfect day for a jimmy jammy day, almost finished my lillies should be done fingers crossed today or tommorrow
elliep santa is looking lovely it is such a pretty design
i can honestly day that i have never seen a bothy threads kit that i dont want to do lol i love them all and i have all 8 dictionary ones to get done and my daughter would love the princess castle one
happy stitching !!!!

Ruth_honey

It's just this minute started snowing very lightly here. Been melting steadily all morning though. Am freezing today, so although I want to do some stitching, I daren't come out from my slanket! Brrr! Am still looking for the baby sampler. It's not where I thought it was, but I'm sure I've seen it in the spare room fairly recently. Just need to find where I've put it.
Am very tempted to start one of my cut thru kits, but I *really* need to finish those trees for mum. It's 3 YEARS late now. Sorry mum!

tdd111

elliep wrote: »

Hi tdd111, Welcome. The more the merrier and it's never too late to join.

I'd ove to see a photo of your sitch a photo horse. I started a sitch a photo of my dog once but got so fed up by the one stitch of each colour, no 'sections' to do all in one colour that I gave up. It's the only project I've ever given up and made the decision never to go back to. And I'm usually pretty good at finishing my current project before starting the next. (you can see my current project, it's the santa a few posts up).

What is everyone elses experience of stitch a photo? My dog died recently and I would still love a cross stitch of him. Did I just have a useless charting programme? I bought it off ebay so I don't know what programme was used to create it.

i think u can choose how detailed the colour is on mine???????
haven't used it for ages!!!

once i've dug my xst out i might try to upload a pic altho i've never tried b4!!!!!!!

sweetcarer

Searching me -

Why not try making your own - I adapted this one from a magazine.



It was for my grandnephew in America. I even bought the frame and framed it myself. I already had the threads and material at home and it only took less an month to complete. Use plenty graph paper

link for free graph paper

http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/multiwidth/

link for free text making software (font generator)

http://www.stitchpoint.com/eng/tool/alph/_alphabet_generator.php

or

http://www.crosstitch.com/fontform.html


The bear was from a copy of world of cross stitching.

Put it all together a totally original piece of work.



HTH

Kind wishes

sweetcarer

searching_me

sweetcarer ........... THANK YOU im gonna need to borrow OHs lappy (bigger screen) i know what im doing tonight x

nmm

Hi guys, loving the progress we are making here is my update, been doing the sky on the top left. I had a panic attack as i thought i was going to run out of one of the colours :eek: luckily i made it with a half a strand spare, lol.