The great quilt idea......

Dorastar

Off to my mum and dads on saturday so going to take my square with me - will be away from small children for 2 days so plenty of time to get it started at least!

Boss still off tomorrow but I'm teaching all day so no spinning round in chair time - although I have made some big decisions today which felt good!

Emzy81

alphabet - one design

Hi

About the second border... I think we'll have to go with this as the basic idea

nmm wrote: »

I found this one 2 Stitches Tall any good?

and just improvise certin letters that don't look right, as long as we use this design as the basic idea and only make slight changes then I think it will be fine...what does everyone else think?

Id go with a taller design but as our letters are only small having the back stitch names bigger might look a bit silly.
And go with my earlier post of this....

"Right ive been having a look at Tangles' finished design and i was thinking the second border could be a 1 row border (like the first one thats there) 5 rows after the first....
so there are 4 rows inbetween the 2 borders, then we can stitch our name and county on using the middle two rows (so there is a blank row above and below the writing)
and we'll stitch the writing in the bottom right hand corner.
the border will be the same colour as the letter and the writing will be in black back stitch..."

i know I probably haven't explained it very well but ill try and get one of mine done in the next couple of days and post a pic to explain better

Is this all ok?

Also im just sorting out a design for the back stitch squares (money saving expert, cross stitch cafe, quilters names etc..) so when ive got some designs ill post them up so we can choose, while we're on that subject if anyone wants to do one of those squares aswell can you pm me please, we've still got some not taken.

Maria sounds like you're doing well

Dora Reminds me of the place I used to work, was great being in charge while the boss was away lol hope you enjoyed spinning and hope today is going well too, well done on the big decisions I bet they are great! Also have a lovely weekend break at your moms xx

spottybutterfly

Hey guys for some reason this thread wasnt showing any updates all week for me. Has everyone got the pdf saved? I'll get it taken down- it was only ment to be up for a little while anyways as it was obvious to me from the start we couldnt make it available to everyone, as it would have been unfair on the designer.

Ruth_honey

I haven't! How do I save it to my computer? Need to change the ink on my printer.

chickywiggle

alphabet - one design

well been signed off work for another 2 weeks (won't go into it) so hopefully plenty of stitching and housework (around DS demanding my attention....... grr that daddy gets more "me time" on his day off when i'm 'SICK' as DS only wants me!!) everywhere i look i see stuff to declutter then i think "*insert rude word here*" it and pick up my computer/ cross stitch/ DS.

sounds good Emzy. might make a start soon,

3rd post now updated with info - PLEASE refer to it with questions!!

Dorastar

Thanks for putting all the info in one place for us Chickywiggle - stuff has been posted out this afternoon

Have got a few people to sort out still cos haven't got their SAE's/don't know their real names and cant match up letters! Have got a lovely letter and SAE from Lesley in Strathpeffer but don't know your MSE name to match up and send you the right letter - please let me know and I can send it asap.

Still to sort/send:
Ruth_honey
Craftlady
Jailhousebabe

Am at my olds for the weekend but will sort from there once I've cranked the handle on their old computer!

23rdspiral

cartoon animals - range of designers

hi dora, sorry i havent ppd you yet. i will asap i can find my entry code!

chicky - hope you feel better soon hun. x

sweetcarer

alphabet - any design

Hi Gang

Been working away on my letter - been graphing out my name to go under it.

With the space we have I can put either

J H Pless - Glasgow

or

J H Pless - East Dun

East Dun is short for East Dunbartonshire (where I live) - so what one do you think is best? I am leaning towards Glasgow as it looks better as it gives a space at either end and more people know of it.

Also are we doing it all in capitals?

Don't mean to be a pain

sweetcarer

Emzy81

alphabet - one design

Hi Sweetcarer nope I wasn't going to do it in capitals, i thought it would look better in upper and lower case but does everyone else think thats ok? Oh and I think the glasgow option xx

Also Keiss kindly pointed out that we'll need an extra row as the lower case letters like g and y mean it will cover 3 rows not 2!

So ill ask Chickywiggle very nicely if she'll update the 3rd post again...

Hmmm this may get confusing so we may well end up sticking with whats in the 3rd post and using capitals...ill be back!!! lol

chickywiggle

alphabet - one design

i like upper and lower case........ will go update post.

sweetcarer - defo go with Glasgow (people will have some idea where that is)

nowww who's got Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch