Cross Stitch Cafe 2011

Mags_cat

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Getting there by Mags_cat, on Flickr

(Really...it's not as bad as I thought it might be!)

caroline78

Mags_cat wrote: »

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Getting there by Mags_cat, on Flickr

(Really...it's not as bad as I thought it might be!)

Thats a beautiful design...The backstitch is really bringing it to life...xx

Mags_cat

caroline78 wrote: »

Thats a beautiful design...The backstitch is really bringing it to life...xx

Thank you

I got via a from here - so if you'd like it, you know what to do!

23rdspiral

I did a bit more Lemon Bowl last night, but it was soo hard... i kept miscounting or not remembering what i was doing... too worried about work i think.

i sew all sorts, machine, hand, embroidery and Xstitch. i find them all interchangable skills wise. (makes me perfect target audience for the newstyle Cross Stitcher maybe?). i sometimes have trouble with following patterns due to my dyslexia but get there eventually even if i have to make it up!

Mags - the backstitch is SO effective!

Soulie - will be thinking of you, and your family, tomorow. i'd like to light a candle too, if you dont mind?

Apocasaver wrote: »

I always spend far too much time worrying about things, so never get round to doing anything:rotfl:

lol! i think you're talking about me too!

ejs2311 wrote: »

23rdspiral any news on the job?

thanks for caring. um, not really, but i HAVE to go in on a extra day this week for a meeting with HR... so that'll be it. i think they have to give me notice though, so we'll see. i'm a jangly mess at the moment, whizzing from 'i can do anything' manic and productive, to 'what's the point in trying i'm highly specialised therefore highly useless' dispare. right this minute, i'm neither as i'm on here and distracted!

nykied wrote: »

Thing with me is, I used my Mum's sewing machine fine just before Christmas, threaded it myself and everything. It's just that it's mine and what if it goes wrong? Hehe...

the WORST that can happen is that you;ll have the tension so very wrong the needle will break. and then all you do is re-read the tension bit in the book, wiggle a few knobs, tugg on the thread to check it does actually move and pop in a new needle. that's the Worst. and it's not that bad really. (esp since john lewis started doing 99p for 4 needles).

How about grabbing an old pillow case or shirt (Not a Tshirt, they're much harder), and just practising a few simple stitches... check out the Sewing Thread for help, i dont want to take over here!

nykied

Thanks 23rd - the sewing thread is the second place I go on this site. After here, of course!

bikerchick1066

Really hope this works!!




Pair of seascapes by bikerchick1066, on Flickr



LOVE cushion 1.2.11 by bikerchick1066, on Flickr

23rdspiral

ooh that cushion looks lovely bikerchick!!

nykied wrote: »

Thanks 23rd - the sewing thread is the second place I go on this site. After here, of course!

i used too but all that talk of nice books and fabric made me a bit spendy, so now i'm mostly here or in the frugal challenge thread! much better for my bank balance!

sweetcarer

Ruth_honey wrote: »

Soulie-just to say I'll be thinking of you tomorrow. I hope it goes as well as these things can.

Same here Soulie - thinking of you.


I was just thinking there (my statistical head on) and did you know we had 1367 messages posted here since start of January - that is an average of 44 messages a day. Also we have had 27,133 hits. I think that is very impressive for our wee cafe.

So give yourself all a pat on the back we deserve it - no kicking backsides.

Take care

sweetcarer

wen-tom

seeing all the lovely designs on here makes me want to spend :eek:

because i havent stitched for a while i'm pretty much starting from scratch with threads so i have to buy them all for everything i want to do

then i get impatient having to wait for them to come when i order them cheaper online. when i get an idea in my head i just want to do it right now!

nmm

wen-tom wrote: »

when i get an idea in my head i just want to do it right now!

Sounds like my OH, he decided at the beginnning of this year to buy a car and learn to drive. By the 11th January a car was parked out front, taxed insured and Mot'd. Then he sorted out his new photocard license and booked 10 lessons(completed last Friday) now he has his theory test tomorrow. He really doesn't like hanging about :rotfl:

Czar update 30/1/11