Cross Stitch Cafe 2011

sweetcarer

Hi Girls,

Hope you are all well where ever you are.

Just had to post this for chickys birthday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ucSwuaMSc4

Made me laugh - happy birthday girl!

sweetcarer

PS Favourite cross stitch - samplers and alphabets

23rdspiral

super effort Flat Eric and Sweetcarer! :T :T :T

i feel i didnt do enough on my previous well wishes to Chicky, so i'll add these...

chickywiggle

sweetcarer wrote: »

Hi Girls,

Hope you are all well where ever you are.

Just had to post this for chickys birthday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ucSwuaMSc4

Made me laugh - happy birthday girl!

sweetcarer

PS Favourite cross stitch - samplers and alphabets

lol LOVE IT!! thank youuuuuuuu.

Flat_Eric

Ruth_honey wrote: »

Thanks for contacting Louise. Hope she's ok.



I remember Quick & Easy. It was a good magazine before they changed it. I had a birthday message printed in there for my Mum for her 50th.

I noticed how much Cross Stitcher has changed when I was browsing through some old mags yesterday. I know some people do like the new format (no-one I know, mind you!) but there's too much focusing on how to make things up into 'different' things. This issue is the best of the new style in my opinion. There's 2 things I might actually stitch in it-as opposed to nothing, or one small thing. I like the cupcakes and I like the campervan/caravan/beetle/bike design. My issue only arrived this morning, BTW.
My issue was waiting for me when I got home Wednesday evening :j Nothing in it that i want to stitch but I am collecting the Emily Peacock alphabet so tore that page out. Thought the Margaret Sherry design was quite sweet.

Are you enjoying stitching on evenweave? I think it's a lovely fabric to work with. Linen on the other hand...:mad:

Yes I am quite enjoying stitching on evenweave although it hurts my eyes trying to work out where to stitch / counting ..... but now that i have started, I can use what I have already stitched as reference.... Its prettty much a symmetrical design so it should be obvious if I go wrong...

I find it amusing that I have been stitching all these years and this is my first evenweave project!

Dorastar

chickywiggle wrote: »

twas a book from when i was a kid - joan aikens "necklace of raindrops"....just makes you mad someone would happily sell things in that condition.
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Chicky that is so awful about the book, that its one of my all time favourite books so I can't really send it to you but I do love the stories and it has served me well in teaching for years now.

DH has grabbed some extra hours work tonight so he'll have done another 8am - 10pm shift today but gets the weekend off as a result. Am getting a bit woried about him though as he's overdoing it a bit and hardly has any voice left. Am going to run him a big bath and get him some beers in for when he finally gets in - especialyy since he's letting me go stitching tomorrow afternoon while he kidsits:T

chickywiggle

lol soo glad someone else has actually heard of it Dorastar!! there are a few on amazon at the moment so may try and get it from someone else if and when the refund comes thro (they tell you up to 4 weeks..... it want to NOT be that long!!!)

eta: incase you've never heard of it this is the title story (and my favourite)

nykied

Happy birthday Chicky, hope it's getting better! xox



Can you tell I mostly can't be bothered to 'Go advanced'?

Dorastar

chickywiggle wrote: »

lol soo glad someone else has actually heard of it Dorastar!! there are a few on amazon at the moment so may try and get it from someone else if and when the refund comes thro (they tell you up to 4 weeks..... it want to NOT be that long!!!)

eta: incase you've never heard of it this is the title story (and my favourite)

Love it, love it, love it - but my copy is in school drat! She was my favourite author as a child. Other favourite is The Fib by George Layton - which is also in school.

chickywiggle

Dorastar wrote: »

Love it, love it, love it - but my copy is in school drat! She was my favourite author as a child. Other favourite is The Fib by George Layton - which is also in school.

ohh not heard of that one. TBH thats the only story i actually remember from the book

Marru

Chicky:

Doing backstitch on Toby

This is what he should look like when finished: