Cross-stitch cafe 2010

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Bubbles911 wrote: »

Welcome to the thread, and an extra special welcome because you love George Michael - me too!!! I went to see him twice on the last tour, was there the first night and cried when he came on as I never thought I would see him live! I cant wait to see how you get on with stitching him. I have got a pattern of frank sinatra in cross stitcher magazine which Im hoping to attempt soon. Anyway, welcome!

Thank you!! I got to see him 3 times on his tour and like you, never thought I'd see him live. I even flew to Dublin to see him - 10p flights and £50 tickets were too much to resist! I ended up on the second row and he was almost in touching distance.

Anyway pressure is on to make a good job of this cross stitch now there's another fan on here

Think you're treble clef is coming on really well.

kezbabybabe

Emzy81 wrote: »

We haven't got ants...yet but i have got spiders

At present, I'd take the spiders...

23rdspiral

Ruth_honey wrote: »

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I finished stitching it about 5pm today. Not had time to frame it as DH gets home at 6pm and I needed to have a quick bath.
He's decided as we're out all day tomorrow, we should exchange cards & gifts tonight. He's bought me a lovely bronzed glass heart necklace. Sooo pretty! Also a little 'Wife' token thingy to keep in my bag/pocket/etc. Off to find a gift bag to put the stitching in now. Hope he likes it...:)

:bdaycake: :T _party_ :T _party_ :bdaycake: _party_ :T

it's really lovely! and i couldnt agree more with the sentiment ~ lol! :rotfl:

hope hubby likes it. have a great anniversary! which is worth celebrating as well as finishing your piece!! :T

Keiss_21

Hya all,

Well, less than a week to go before the end of the month....and I might even achieve my target, which is to finish page one and get through over half of page two of the Astronomer.

Here is where I am now:



I may get half way through the second page, though I haven't done any stitching for two days :eek:. At least the temperature has gone down so I can sit in the conservatory for more than a few minutes before wilting!!

Thanks Bubbles for all your hard work and (((hugs))) to you for all your troubles, hope you manage to come through OK.

I love the idea of making cards for each other, both birthday and christmas.

My birthday is in November...and it is a BIG one this year (50!)...I hope to have a party at the local cricket club (cheap and out of the village, so no neighbours to complain of the noise!!). I had my 40th there, which was a great success...so hoping for the same this year.

Have a great week stitching folks, still working out my June Challenge...want to finish page 2 of the Astronomer, as well as completing the two quilt squares, as well as making a Well Done card/bookmark for my niece who passed her Grade 1 in singing...she is 9 and her mum (my lil' sis') is convinced she can't really sing .

I'm having a few problems finding a nice singer piccie, so I am in the process of designing my own...might have something to show you next week. We are all meeting up on the 19th June, so I must have it done my then....:eek:

Off to get some more seeds sown..if it'd not one kind of sowing, it's another!!

Lelc

Morning everyone - I'm creeping in a bit embarrassed to say that I've hardly done any cross stitching in the last 2/3 weeks:o I've just been so busy with work and decorating that I'm shattered at the end of the day.

I'm away on holiday in a couple of weeks time to Fuerteventura for 2 weeks:j(I'm just praying the ash clouds stay away at least until I get there). I intend to take my quilt square with me and one of my UFO's although I'm not convinced I'll get that much done but I'll try.

Bubbles - My mum started the clef as well but she found the backstitch a bit daunting as most of the individual flowers are outlined with backstitch. I think she's decided that it will look ok without the outline but just using the backstitch to do the detail inside each flower.

Everyone is doing really well and I do drop in most days to have a wee lookie to see the updates.

Well, I'd better get back to work. Have a nice day everyone and I hope the sun keeps shining where you are (unfortunately it's turned cold and grey here).

LC

Ruth_honey

23rdspiral wrote: »

:bdaycake: :T _party_ :T _party_ :bdaycake: _party_ :T

it's really lovely! and i couldnt agree more with the sentiment ~ lol! :rotfl:

hope hubby likes it. have a great anniversary! which is worth celebrating as well as finishing your piece!! :T

Thank you! We will be celebrating. I'm off to get my hair cut soon, then meeting hubby for lunch in London, then going to see QI being filmed. Glad it's cooled down outside as we'll be waiting outisde the studio in the sun. Better pop some water in my bag!

kezbabybabe

Keiss_21 wrote: »

Here is where I am now:

Keiss, the Astronomer looks fab! The detail is very obvious even at this early stage. Looking forward to seeing this one progress.:T

Emzy81

Ruth I hope you and your husband have a really lovely day The design looks lovely I hope he liked it

Keiss the detail in it is lovely, its looking great :j

awesome2_2

maria_and_the_imps wrote: »

hi yeah he wants a 3 lions one and a st georges cross, st gorges cross is easy but im trying to do a 3 lions one on a cross stitch pattern maker, if im successful i can email it to you if you would like? just send me your email add

Thanks very much that is very kind of you I will pm you my email. If I manage to keep it a secret he will be made up wil have to zip my mouth up me thinks lol:rotfl:

ali.b.123

Hi all hope you are all well - not commented for a while but have been lurking and admiring all your gorgeous works - finished the freebie hedgehog and now doing the Insanity is Hereditary sampler will hopefully pop a pic on my blog later. 23rdspiral - sorry not sure which crescent moon colour - if you let me know I will have a look to see if I can find which colour I used??