Cross-stitch cafe 2010

harley1

Oh no Maria, how awful.

Do you have insurance?

If not, my friend did this and she took it all apart, laid out all the bits near (but not on) a radiator. Left it for a week and it worked perfectly when she put it back together.

If no insurance it's got to be worth a try.

xxxxx

P.S. About 30 stitches off finishing the sheep but K seems to know it and keeps waking up crying.

chickywiggle

squishy (and others)....... I can vouch the threads are FABBY. I bought a honeysuckle kit when they 1st came out which was soo nice - made a lovely birthday card - posted it......... and the stupid postal service lost it..... GRRRRR.

I saw that set and was soo tempted by it for the charts but I was good and resisted.

Around Decmeber time (i think it was) our hobbycraft was discontinuuing the skeins so I bought about 8 different 'flavours' for 49p each (ish). The orange one is delicious..

You can smell them a little as you stitch the smell seems to be released with friction. so once finished it doesn't smell - rub your fingers over - smell again!

One of the x-stitch magazines a few months back (ok years back) had a fuity collection of characters..... think I may dig that out and do them in the correct threads one day.

*Louise*

witchwoopiggy wrote: »

help
im trying to get my fabric for 'dragon riders' and i have never used evenweave before do you stitch just over one thread? and it says on pattern 400w x 514h stitches, 25 count, 16w x 20-1/2h in sooo would this be big enough?
Fat Quarter 19¾" x 27½" (50 x 70cm)
sorry for all the questions but i dont want to start it and find i not got a peice of fabric big enough:o

I concur with MRSM's answer above

witchwoopiggy

thank you didnt realize it was so big lol
right fabric ordered in 25 count , cant do it in 28 count havent got a wall big enough to put it on lol now im going to sit in the corner and wonder if i have gone nuts takeing on this project

Squishy

The kits I ordered actually arrived this morning! :j Great service there I had read somewhere that the threads stay scented for 20 washes, so hopefully they should say good for a while after stitched.

*Louise*

witchwoopiggy wrote: »

thank you didnt realize it was so big lol
right fabric ordered in 25 count , cant do it in 28 count havent got a wall big enough to put it on lol now im going to sit in the corner and wonder if i have gone nuts takeing on this project

Hehe, you will ask yourself that many more times over the next year

Please post progress pics though - we're a right nosey bunch :j

angus1

Hi, i'm wanting to make a cross stitch birth announcement / sampler for my nephew's newly born twin boys.

Have beeing trawling the internet without much success. Can anyone help? Thank you

MRSMCAWBER

witchwoopiggy wrote: »

thank you didnt realize it was so big lol
right fabric ordered in 25 count , cant do it in 28 count havent got a wall big enough to put it on lol now im going to sit in the corner and wonder if i have gone nuts takeing on this project

oooohhhh you will be the first one of us to work on 25ct over 1 thread :j-I "think" that some of the charts working on that fabric say you can sew using just one strand of cotton too -which would reduce the costs I guess :rotfl:
As *Louise* says -please post piccies as it realy helps keep you going -plus we are nosey
Never thought to give you the sizes for if you did it on 16 or 18ct

*Louise* -I have seen a bootiful HAE that would go with your lake :rotfl:..will pop and find it in a moment -it looks almost like a close up on the figure by the lake -Im in love

I can't get the link of the pic to work -so its on the wimblebees site
on the HAE section Page 5 left hand side -3rd one down -tis lovely

witchwoopiggy

*stands in the corner* i must not be nosey i must not be nosey....ah i looked and wish i hadent i like College of Magical Knowledge and i agree with MrsM thats alovely pic to go with the one your doing dont worry about not giveing me 18 or 16 count i like a challange, and it sounds like it will be if none of you ladys have done it in 25 count by the way it says use two strands of cotton , oo i wish everything would arrive so i can start :rotfl:

MRSMCAWBER

oooohhh Witchwoopiggy -that college of magical knowledge looks like a challenge ....
I have to confess that I decided to do my HAE designs on 28ct over 2 threads to make them a good old size -plus I would end up cross eyed trying to work on 25ct....I can't imagine how teeny tiny the Xs will be :eek: