Cross Stitch Cafe 2011

Mags_cat

ocemeer wrote: »

Has anyone here stitched any Michael Powell, I know someone mentioned his website adn I have fell in love with his tryptychs and scenes and am trying to chose which one to sew and would like any feedback on them.

Ohhh and I have a new sewing box.... well I need to paint adn laquer the outside and put new brass bits on it and reline the inside with some lovely wall paper - yes my darling OH has found me an old spanish Navy trunk as my sewing box, he thinks it will be too big...little does he realise.

Yes.

I'm almost finished on the wedding sampler that somene kindly to me and I have bought the Tenby harbour kit (it's enormous!) to do as my next big project. You know what to do if you'd like to do them too....;)

I've found the wedding sampler quite easy - there are lots of blocks of colours and the backstitch is actually quite enjoyable, really brings the design to life. Also, I like the way he gives you two charts - one with the cross stitch which has the backstitch in very faint lines on it, and one with the backstitch in bold and the cross stitch very faint underneath it. That way, you can cross reference them.

One criticism I would have is that the charts use some symbols that are very very similar so it's easy to get the colours mixed up.

I also really like his lighthouse series - anyone got them? Hmm? :rotfl:

ERICS_MUM

Re Michael Powell kits


this post has reminded me that I bought a couple of his minis a few years ago - they must still be in my stash trunk ! I'll have a look later and scan the charts - I always work from a copy so i can mark it up etc as I go. It also makes it easier to ;);)

shelly

ocemeer wrote: »

Ohhh and I have a new sewing box.... well I need to paint adn laquer the outside and put new brass bits on it and reline the inside with some lovely wall paper - yes my darling OH has found me an old spanish Navy trunk as my sewing box, he thinks it will be too big...little does he realise.

The end bit I coloured made me smile to myself. When I first got back into stitching again I had hardly anything, there was so little that I decided to put the footstool to good use and use it for my (very small) stash.
Now though the footstool is rammed full and I have had to store some kits in the sideboard.
I blame ebay bargains! :rotfl:

kezbabybabe

Ooops just realised that my inbox on here was full, so you might have had a bounce back if you tried to pm me about those organiser instructions,it's okay now. For the two that pm'd me, I will get these to you soon.:o

Bubbles911

Hiya guys some of the things you are working on are lovely. Im currently stitching justin beiber from cross stitch crazy, my brother gets married on the 25th and one of my nieces to be is a huge fan so stitching that for her and a butterfly for the other one. Its quite a tight deadline though. I still have about 5 duplicate copies of cross stitch magazines if someone wants them, this includes this months cross stitch crazy minus the justin beiber page. If anyone would like them I can send them if you will reimburse the postage. when I came on here had nothing and thanks to the lovely members here I was helped to build up a small stash so its nice to give something back.

ERICS_MUM

ERICS_MUM wrote: »

Re Michael Powell kits


this post has reminded me that I bought a couple of his minis a few years ago - they must still be in my stash trunk ! I'll have a look later and scan the charts - I always work from a copy so i can mark it up etc as I go. It also makes it easier to ;);)

Found them :T. Anyone who'd like a ;) you know what to do. I'm going to copy the charts tomorrow.



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sk00bie1

Evening Ladies! It's been a while, I hope everyone is well I haven't really stitched since we moved last May as the light in our new place is awful and I couldn't see what I was doing! But I have stopped being rediculous and have purchased a new lamp so it's full speed ahead with the stitching! I am still working on the santa from last year and my challenge is to finish it as soon as possible, hopefully by the end of the month! I started stitching again last week so I have made some progress, I'll get a pic up soon. Well I'm going to get on with it so I'll be off, it's great to be back though

craftymummy_2

Hello ladies,
i've not posted on this thread before (nore read thru all the pages) and i'm looking for a hello kitty cross stitch chart that wont cost me a fortune. Or if anyone has got one of those programms where you can convert an image into a chart, could i pretty please get them to do a small hello kitty chart? I'd love to do a bookmark for my hello kitty mad DD.
Many thanks for all your help

tellmeitsfriday

craftymummy wrote: »

Hello ladies,
i've not posted on this thread before (nore read thru all the pages) and i'm looking for a hello kitty cross stitch chart that wont cost me a fortune. Or if anyone has got one of those programms where you can convert an image into a chart, could i pretty please get them to do a small hello kitty chart? I'd love to do a bookmark for my hello kitty mad DD.
Many thanks for all your help

Try this trial - fully functioning for 4 days, even printing works

http://www.hobbyware.com/pm_downloads_trial.htm

craftymummy_2

Thanks for that tellmeitsfriday but unfortunately i got windows7 and their program isnt compatible with that