Cross Stitch Cafe 2011

23rdspiral

Hello everyone, sorry for the Huge post but I couldnt help commenting so much!

i've been away for my 30th birthday, and had a fantastic time.. and very cross stitchy time too - though recievining & buying not doing!:o i'll tell you about it after work if you like.

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Hello Ailsb! welcome, i hope we can offer some encouragement for your UFO... i'm sure it's not the oldest one we've had mentioned on here!

nanon - good luck with your not-smoking resolution. x

Shelly - best wishes to your Dad x

Soulie - thanks for the nice post. still thinking of you hun xx

Ruth Honey - I LOVE those Feb charts!! esp the top one, is there any chance of ;)s please?

Apocasaver wrote: »

As for reading, I'm a massive bookworm, but I think my tastes are a bit different to everyone else's.

humm, me too, well a bit! I'm reading Terry Prachett's Folklore of the Diskworld at the moment, and also a book on patchwork samplers, and 4 craft magazines!
i like historic/fantasy esp from medieval or earlier... i recently read 'The Way of Wyrd' (story based on Anglo Saxon paganism/christian conversion) by Brian Bates.
BUT, i've also read most books by Joanne Harris (loved Chocolat & Blackberry Wine), and oddly for me have recenly gotten into Zadie Smith too.

sweetcarer wrote: »

Part One
My mum was on phone tonight - her and her sisters are planning to go through my Grans things. My mum asked would I like a picture I gave her years ago back as my wee minding. It was a print of some snowdrops - when she and my Papa got married they couldn't afford a button hole so he picked some snowdrops from the garden and used them instead.

oh that's so lovely!

ejs2311 wrote: »

Got a whole storage box full of old cross stitch magazines now that mums been so will spend the afternoon looking through them - argh - more projects are guaranteed! If anyone is looking for anything in particular let me know & I'll see if I can help. There must be about 50 mags from 1999 onwards!

humm, maybe you've got the mags with the charts for the cover kits i just bought? I'll take a look to see if there's any info on them, as they look quite old.

Apocasaver wrote: »

I popped into Hobbycraft on the way home and was as disappointed as ever. Northampton seems to be the worst branch I've ever been in, so little to interest me. I couldn't even get a pen to mark on the Aida!

umm, i agree! went with a friend last wknd after a trip to the 2 patchwork shops near daventry... and for once i bought something!! (1/2 price patchwork fabric!!) my friend got some DMC variation threads and some metalics... i tried to tell her 87 - 95p was way too much but she was happy to see them in real life!



:T so cute!!

vickietm

Tellmeitsfriday, I think that is what I have done for most of it, especially the bits that make it look 'tatty'. The way I look at it is, it makes it unique!

ejs2311

23rdspiral wrote: »

humm, maybe you've got the mags with the charts for the cover kits i just bought? I'll take a look to see if there's any info on them, as they look quite old.

Send me a scan of the pics and I'll flick through to see if I have any. They seem to all be Cross Stitcher and World of Cross Stitch if theat helps narrow them down at all.

Shelly - hope you're dad is OK. They do these things day in and day out so he will be fine (and a lot better for it). It's just the waiting that's the bad bit.

Ruth Honey - I'm another one that loves those Feb charts. The bottom one is my favourite. Any chance of a please?

Getting slow on the stitching at the moment - too busy trying to find money making ventures! Looks like there is a local craft fair in a few weeks so hoping to get enough candles/cupcakes/scarves and anything else I can think of made in time!

xxx

Ruth_honey

23rdspiral & ejs2311, please PM me your email address.

chickywiggle

tellmeitsfriday wrote: »

Back stitch on Tatty Teddies - MAKE IT UP

glad i'm not the only one who does that.

23rdspiral wrote: »

Hello everyone, sorry for the Huge post but I couldnt help commenting so much!

i've been away for my 30th birthday, and had a fantastic time.. and very cross stitchy time too - though recievining & buying not doing!:o i'll tell you about it after work if you like.

happy birthday :bdaycake:and yes...... do tell.

ejs2311 wrote: »

Getting slow on the stitching at the moment - too busy trying to find money making ventures! Looks like there is a local craft fair in a few weeks so hoping to get enough candles/cupcakes/scarves and anything else I can think of made in time! xxx

gooood luck!!

I'm in shock!! thought hmm what to have for dinner at work today.... ohh spaghetti and sausages (in a tin)....... £1.09 and a crusty roll (32p)!!! :eek: Its cheaper to go to a well known bakery shop and purchase of a nice warm pasty.

In fact for £1.99 I coulda got a bacon sammage and cup of tea!!!

nykied

23rdspiral wrote: »

oddly for me have recenly gotten into Zadie Smith

I've tried to read 'White Teeth' about five times and I just cannot get into it!

23rdspiral wrote: »

humm, maybe you've got the mags with the charts for the cover kits i just bought? I'll take a look to see if there's any info on them, as they look quite old.

Send the pictures to me too, I have quite a lot of old magazines. I'll have a look through mine. PM me if you need my email address.

witchwoopiggy

sorry for not posting much at the mo, thinking of you all and welcome to all the newbies
im suffering from awfull headaches at the mo cant stand bright lights the lot and worse thing is i cant do any cross stitching seeing dr tomorrow so hopefully he can give me something that will take the edge off a bit . lovely to see everyones work you are all doing so well

Apocasaver

Another day without much stitching here! Hoping to get on tonight though.

shelly - hope all goes well for your dad.

witchwoopiggy - hope the dr can help and you are able to start stitching again soon.

23rdspiral - Glad you had a good time. I'm looking forward to hearing about all the cross stitch you've bought

sammr85

Hi all,

Hope everyone is well, have tried to catch up but it would of taken me all night and more!:o I've read this page though and Shelly I am sorry to hear ur dad needs surgery, love, hugs and get well soon vibes to u and ur dad x

Sorry I've not been on recently, been concentrating on the wedding, mainly making invites! They r now starting to drive me potty!! I keep running out of double sided tape! Also means I've not had a chance to pick up my Dictionary of Homes I'm hoping once all the wedding makes, organising is out the way I can spend my evenings counting down to the big day by finishing my x-stitch!!

I have now subscribed to this thread (at long last!) so I will now keep up to date with u all x

23rdspiral

Hello everyone,

Here's a little tale of a birthday girl and her love of cross stitch...

On the recomendation of someone on here we went to Bakewell and ate lovely lamb pies and bakewell tarts, and i 'popped' in the Xstitch shop. Well i thought i did, aparently i came out 30mins later! they had a HUGE range, but all quite pricy, and mostly not really my thing - apart from some really nice american charts, but at 7 - 9 pounds each for only the chart they stayed there. I did however, get WoXS 165 (Charlie& Lola & FAB craft tattoo style charts!!)(if i'd have known how fab, i'd have bought when issued!), WoXS 166 (sewing themed biscornu for a friend) & CrossStitcher 228 (bowl of cherries & HomeSweetHome hanger) all for 1pound each donated to charity!

I opened my prezzies after 8.07pm... i didnt want to leave my 20s till i really had to! and recieved a lovely ribbon stitched card from a dear friend and a DMC poppies kit from my mum. gosh! my mum has noticed i do XStitch! wow! it's not quite what i'd choose, it's really 'blocky' but when i thanked her for it she said "it looked good & simple to stitch on a train, you dont have to put it up". bless her! so i said it was, and that i would, but maybe it'd one day be given to an aunt. I think she liked that.

The next day we got over our hangovers by doing every charity shop in Buxton we could find... and I found 3 cover kits (no charts) for 99p (but with DMC threads & needles i thought they were good value). I've looked it up and they're from a defunct mag called 'Cross Stitch Magic'.



(ebay pics, kits 99p each) and a really contempoary looking gingham layered heart. if anyone has those mags, i'd love a

In another shop i found a complete kit called the Darlington Sleeper by the craft collection ltd. It's a nostalgic piece with a sleeping train porter. i'm not sure if i'll stitch it, but it's on 16 count antique aida so the bits will be useful if i dont... it was 2.50, down to 1.50 so it seemed no one locally wanted it so i cant feel bad if i break it up.

I also treated myself to this kit. when i showed my OH it, he laughed so lound people looked round... so how could i not get it?! it was in the art gallery bit of the Pavillion in Buxton for 6.99.


"hand wash only"

http://www.thewickerman.co.uk/acatalog/Thomas_Joseph_Cross_Stitch.html


So, although i didnt get any stitching done, i did think and read about Xstitch a lot on my wknd away!

( and did an 8 mile hike up Mam Tor, and a lovely walk up a hill ouside Buxton of 5 miles! and found a lovely patchwork shop on the way home and bought a few bits at 75% off!!!)