Cross Stitch Cafe 2011

chickywiggle

Have you got some UFO's (UnFinished Objects) still to finish??

Setting yourself deadlines for stitching cards and pressies?

Half way thro a huge project and needing motivation to finish?

Then grap a cuppa tea and come and have a moan, come a borrow ideas, or just look lovingly at everyone else's projects.

Don't forget to set yourself up a photo album account - see below for our Flikr group - to share all your lovely work.

How to share your pics from FLIKR:
1) Go to the picture you want to show us click the 'Share This' button on the top left of the picture, this will show you a number of options and the one you need is called 'Grab the HTML/BBCode', Tick the button for BBCode and it'll convert the code to what you need.
2) Copy the text in the box and paste it into a new post on MSE and it should have everything you need to insert the image into your post. You can check this by clicking Preview Message.

Hope to see some 2009/ 2010 UFO'ers + some new faces.

The flikr group

The facebook group

Chicky.

(old thread here)

chickywiggle

Here's your challange numbers (as of 25th December 2010).
Its that time of the month again...... what's your January 2011 challange??

No1 - nmm
No2 - Bubbles911
No3 - *Louise*
No4 - Simac
No5 - Dorastar
No6 – Littlestar1981
No7 - Thrifty
No8 - Mrsmacawber
No9 - shelly
No10 – Maria and the Imps
No11 – Harley1
No12 - Chickywiggle ....... To complete "I stitch therefore I stash"
No 12 and a half - 'tinywiggle'
No13 – Keiss21
No14 – Emzy81
No15 – Mountain Ash
No16 - Lelc
No17 - Funfairprincess
No18 - Elliep
No19 - Kezbabybabe
No20 - Craftygranny
No21 - Witchwoopiggy
No22 - Louiseey
No23 - 23rdspiral
No24 - Spottybutterfly
No25 - sweetcarer
No26 – Skoobie1
No27 – Ruth Honey
No28 – Mad as a March hare
No29 – Erics Mum
No30 - Welshlassie
No31 - cazmcf
No32 - niamhirl
No33 - Myzdamena
No34 - Charliec45
No35 - littlemisschocolate
No36 - cassolete
No 37 - LindseyandMatthew
No 38 - natc
No 39 - zuzieq
No 40 - Elle1267
No 41 - Lilliant
No 42 – sammykaye18
No 43 – ab7167
No 44 – bikerchick1066
No 45 – sammr85
No 46 – awesome2
No 47 – pennib
No 48 – Mrs_Ryan
No 49 – tellmeitsfriday
No 50 – Mags_cat
No 51 – Sammyw
No 52 – millymoomoo
No 53 – vivkietm
No 54 - catchooky
No 55 - Flat Eric
No 56 - Nannon
No 57 - Wallaby214 - finish seaside scene.
No 58 - ejs2311 - Titanic and Kingfisher plate (Jan and Feb)
No. 59 - Ailsb
[FONT=&quot]No. 60 - Marru[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]No, 61 - Nykied[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]No. 62 - Observer[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]No. 63 - Mrs-moneypenny[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]No. 64 - Tryingtobeoldstyle[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]No. 65 - Trying hard[/FONT]
No. 66 - blue_eyed_girl
No. 67 - sophieandemily
No. 68 -clarew
No. 69 - caroline78
No. 70 - Soulie

(p.s. regular CSC'ers will know I have a memory like a sieve - if one of you can keep an updated list, with the challange set if possible and PM if me - or post it every month - I promise to keep this updated).

chickywiggle

many Thanks to Kez for her hard work compiling this thread. If you know of any good ones to add please PM them to me.

Our Favourites:
Sew and So - www.sewandso.co.uk
Across Town Stitching - www.across-town-stitching.talktalk.net (Great for cheap threads)

Other sites:
Elite Designs - www.elite-designs.co.uk
Siamese Craft Stitcher - http://www.siamesecraftstitcher.co.uk/
The Happy Cross-stitcher - www.thehappycross-stitcher.com
Country Cross Stitch Kits - http://www.countrycrossstitchkits.co.uk/
Cross-stitch World - www.crossstitchworld.com/
Cross-stitch UK - www.crossstitchuk.com

Amercian Based Sites:
Heaven and Earth Designs - http://heavenandearthdesigns.com
The Silver Needle - www.thesilverneedle.net
Mystic Stitch - www.mysticstitch.com

Artist Specific Sites:
Michael Powell - www.michaelpowellart.co.uk

Make your own charts:
Pic2point - http://pic2point.com/main.php

thread convertors
DMC - find similar shades - http://pic2point.com/dmccolors.php#
DMC: Anchor - http://www.stitchtastic.com/useful/AnchorToDMC.aspx
Madeia: DMC - http://dmctransformation.tripod.com/M-DMC.html
How to work out how much aida you need - http://www.cross-stitch-centre.co.uk/acatalog/aida.html

tellmeitsfriday

Hello

Oooo a nice shiney new thread to help me spend my Christmas money

chickywiggle

tellmeitsfriday wrote: »

Hello

Oooo a nice shiney new thread to help me spend my Christmas money

and sewandso have started their sale :j

Mags_cat

Ooh! Shiny new thread!

I'm about all familied-out...:)

Ruth_honey

As we're out of tea/coffee & cake, I'm offering freshly made waffles all round & large servings of Baileys (or virgin cocktails for those who aren't drinking)...now put your feet up & let's hit the Sew & So sales...Oooh, anyone checked to see if Hobbycraft have a sale on?
Love & good wishes to you all!

PS-Thanks for setting up the new thread, Chickywiggle!

tellmeitsfriday

chickywiggle wrote: »

and sewandso have started their sale :j

Would it be wrong to spend all of it tonight? x

chickywiggle

it is indeedy ruth_honey......... I'd forgotton all about that one http://direct.hobbycraft.co.uk/shop/massive-clearance-sale (tho no cross stitch that i can see other then a 3 for 2 offer)

not at all TMIF I was just trying to stitch here and thought I could reallly do with a bigger hoop.

Re: wedding sampler. Think I may use the wording (which i have found online) and make my own simple border around it.

Now does anyone have this chart gatehring dust??

Dorastar

Yippee a shiny new thread and my family are all asleep and I have a cash card:p Am going to be VERY good and not buy anything even though there are some pretty things tempting me!

Have had a lovely Christmas day - have deliberately tried to avoid buying less 'tat' this year and the rellies have all tried to do the same, so what we do have is stuff we really needed or wanted.

Dh did his usual stay up late and wrap pressies last night and cooked the food today and has now given up cos he is tired (and old as I pointed out being a whole 2 years older than me) and the icklies are exhausted from serious playing - the sherry bottle and mince pies are out for me now:j Hope everyone has had a good day

Ruth_honey

I couldn't wait any longer & have now tried out the waffle maker. YUM!!! I'm loving it! Used the pancake & waffle mix that I bought in Costco-very easy(add mix, water & vegetable oil) & nice and fluffy. They came out nice first time and it looks easy to clean (my job, apparently!) so waffles for breakfast tomorrow I think. Who's joining me?

In stitchy news, no spending as yet. I have the Somebunny to love toy that's in the Sew & So sale and it's great quality. Hobbycraft sale had nothing that interested me. One of the US stitch shops that sends me newsletters is having a big sale on news eve if anyone is interested. I'll edit this with details from the netbook-not got the hang of copying & pasting on the iPod yet.

ETA-Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

[SIZE=+1]Announcing our Annual Treat!!!
Silver Needle's New Year's Eve Day Sale
Friday, December 31st, 2010[/SIZE]

From 6:00am to 7:00am CST EVERYTHING IN THE SHOP & ON OUR WEBSITE is 25% OFF!!!
From 7:01am to 9:00am CST EVERYTHING IN THE SHOP & ON OUR WEBSITE is 20% OFF!!!
From 9:01am to 4:00pm CST EVERYTHING IN THE SHOP & ON OUR WEBSITE is 15% OFF!!!
It's time again for our ridiculously frenzied early-morning New Year's Eve Sale... You have to *work* for this one, because it's so early in the morning... and time is of the essence! We aren't announcing this sale yet on the website... that happens some time next week. This is YOUR advanced Sneak Peek, your early-bird notice! We have a whole PDF of details that you can print and save. http://www.thesilverneedle.net/nysale2010.pdf

A delightful day... we LOVE the Road Trip Ladies, we love the cheerfulness, we love everything about New Year's Eve!

Mary, your webmaster, reminds all to look-into-and-use her *SEARCH BUTTON* on our site's button bar. She has a sitemap on there... it's an organized listing of each page we have... and you will LOVE the way it directs you to see everything! Plan on several evenings of browsing to see everything... but that's half the fun! You can *build your shopping list,* and save it as a text file on your machine over several days, and BAM... you're ready on Sale Morning!!! Then you can just paste your list into our Order the Old Fashioned Way secure form, as soon as the sale starts, and you can beat the rush!

Also, Mary asks that you come into the site that day from a clean link like these:
http://www.thesilverneedle.net or http://www.silverneedle.biz
It's just another thing that will speed things up for you.


Our New Arrivals this Season...
***Drawn Thread has a new series of small monthly purse-sized calendars covers -- offered in chart format.

***Check out our charming Felt Flower Pin Cushions! They are wool felt flowers -- a big beaded wool ball in the center -- layers and layers of pre-cut wools, stacked together and perched atop an antique thread spool! Hard to describe, an easy 20 minutes to make, such quick and
colorful delights when you're finished!

***DARLING little Stork Scissors -- 4 different ones -- and even Santa Scissors!

*** I THINK new Lizzie Kate is due before the sale... we'll keep you posted via 'Just Arrived!'

News is quick and concise this week... Are all your gifts wrapped? Cookies baked??? Stocking Stuffers ready, in case Santa gets caught in a snowstorm on Christmas Eve, and needs you as his back-up??? It just doesn't get any better, does it?!

Merry Christmas from The Silver Needle Gals!