Cross-stitch cafe 2010

awesome2_2

Hi Chicky Could I just ask it it hard to stitch on pre printed material? I quite fancy doing one on pre printed as I thought maybe it would be eaiser than counting etc. Thought it would be easier on the eyes too as when I have been stitching for about 1/2hr when I look up I have double vision!

shelly

sweetcarer wrote: »

Went to opticians today - I have to get reading/sewing glasses as well as distance. Boo hoo they want at least £250 for them, might trawl the internet for a deal. Got a telling off for not getting my eyes tested for a while - just everytime I go it costs money. Money is so tight.

Hubby and I have bought our specs online for a few years now. I use this site http://www.goggles4u.co.uk/ and I am *usually* happy with the specs once they arrive.
I say usually because I will admit that a couple of times I have been sent a pair that aren't of great quality. I have had a pair where the frame around the lens is a poor fit and they have mangled the top of the screw trying to force it. Have also had a pair that I had to glue the screw into the frame because it kept falling out.

Also it's not uncommon that I have to do some adjusting to make them fit/feel right once I am wearing them but that is natural I guess when you don't use a shop and have them fitted properly.

Though having said all that it's only 2 pairs of specs I haven't been happy with out of the 20 or so I have ordered and been completely happy with.
To be honest when I am paying no more than £20 per pair I'm not really bothered if one or 2 of them aren't completely perfect......they are wearable/useable, just not perfect.
Also for that price I can change them alot more often than if I was paying £200+ for them! (and I need to because I am clumsy with them :rotfl:)

Last note....I am wearing a cheapie pair right now and they are perfect, no mangled screws and needed no adjusting at all....wore them as they were, straight out of the box!

HTH

shelly

tellmeitsfriday wrote: »

I am sure I have that pattern in a chart book somewhere... I will see if I can find it x

I'd love a copy too if you find it! I want to fill my downstairs loo walls with cross stitch :rotfl:

tellmeitsfriday

I will forage through my boxes of "things I will do one day" and see what I can find...

Then I just need to find a decent scanner

shelly

Ok ladies, last update of the shelf because it's finished!




Tomorrow I am going to unpick the hsh I had started and sort out what threads I am using when I get re-started.
Hopefully (but I'm not holding my breath) the evenweave will arrive soon and I can get on with it.
If it's not here by friday I have a smallish Country Companions kit that Mum gave me to do (she bought it to get into cross stitching but then decided it looked too hard) so I might do that as a fill in until the ew gets here.

tellmeitsfriday

Country Companions ones are really hard - because of the spattering of different colours they put in the prickles...

I always suggest a little bookmark to start with - maybe a Disney one, because they are nice blocks of colour - and they are small so are done fast, with a practical use

I've done 31 cats now!!

*Louise*

Well done shelly!:T:T:T

What's the plans for that one now it's completed?

chickywiggle

I've never used the pre-printed but have seen one before at I really don't think I'd like to do it.

shelly

tellmeitsfriday wrote: »

Country Companions ones are really hard - because of the spattering of different colours they put in the prickles...

Yep I know, been there and done that My first big kit I done was a CC one. Took me 10 years or so to complete....I say 10 years but I started it, put it away and forgot about it for those 10 years then got it finished last year. Gave it to a cousins daughter for xmas....

*Louise* wrote: »

Well done shelly!:T:T:T

What's the plans for that one now it's completed?

Thanks. Hopefully it will be framed and hung on the kitchen wall sometime soon.

munchki

*Louise* wrote: »

Can you describe it a little more? What type of fairy, or the colour scheme?

HI Louise - I 'think' it was called the moon fairy and would have been in last months world of cross stitching...I believe she is facing to the left. cant remember the colour scheme. Not sure if that is going to help any more???