Cross Stitch Cafe 2011

Ruth_honey

Car boots-I'd rather spend the morning in bed! Why can't they start about midday? Even the ones that claim they start later are actually up & running 2 hours before they should!

Spent most of yesterday stitching. Hurrah! :j Am happy to have found the bug again. Been not feeling it for months. My shoulder was a bit sore from the gym on Friday, so figured stitching would be gentle exercise for it (;)) I'm working on Lace Up but no point posting a pic yet. It just looks like orange/brown confetti stitching. The finished pic is the back of a corset. Different, but like it!

Trying hard-hope you feel better soon.

Flat Eric-Kindles are great. Hubby loves his. What you could look into though is another ereader. Perhaps a Sony? I have the pocket one & it's very MSE because my local library has ebooks on their website. I can borrow up to 5 books at a time for 3 weeks. Buying books from WHSmith or Waterstones is still as expensive as paperbacks (sometimes more! Grr!) but hopefully I can keep at it with the library books.
Kindle books are better priced, but not supported by library site so you have to buy. Lots of freebies & offers though. Oooh, tough decision.

Mags_cat

Ruth_honey wrote: »

Kindle books are better priced, but not supported by library site so you have to buy. Lots of freebies & offers though. Oooh, tough decision.

Can't you use something like Calibre (free) to convert the file formats to suit the Kindle?

Sorry....totally off topic . To get back onto it - I've almost finished the first page of tenby Harbour and am trying to decide whether or not to do the backstitch as a I go along....I think trying to do it all at once at the end would drive me insane :eek:

Marru

I absolutely love my kindle and am very happy with my plastic thread box (especially as I haven't managed to put any of the threads from the kits that I have finished into it ) So my vote is get the Kindle

Keiss_21

blue_eyed_girl wrote: »

Can't seem to get Across Town to load properly shelly - must be an omen - telling me I shouldn't be spending.:D Liked the idea of 40p for skiens . Never mind - will try later. Thanks for pointing us in the right direction though

Loved your flippin card Soulie

Hoping to start long stitch of Cottage Garden over the weekend but trying to do a bit of a kitchen blitz at the moment.

I find I can't see across-town thread pages using Firefox....Internet Explorer works fine...one of the few sites I view using IE.

Hello folks, :hello: back from nearly three weeks away on hols in sunny Scotland (honest!) with no computer, now I am back to rain, rain and more rain!!! Still give me a chance to catch up on MSE....well, a bit at least! Only read the last two pages so far.

Oh well, the rain is good for the garden and I am not tempted to get out there today. Spent the last week weeding in my dad's weed infested garden...kn****red! Also tired after my return trip home yesterday, three buses, a plane and DH taking me home by car...took over 9 hours from the far north of Scotland...and this is the quick way!!!

So today is a rest and catching-up-with-things day.

I am ashamed to say I did very little cross-stitching while away, the Elegant Lady travelled up, had an airing, then came back down again without a stitch sewn!!!! :eek: I did start on a small heart design, but didn't get very far. I just found I never seemed to have the energy in the evenings to cross-stitch...it also wasn't very sociable and we were staying with various friends and family for the whole time away. I did however do LOADS of knitting...I finished a scarf, then two pairs of socks and two woolly hats and started on another sock....quite productive.

So perhaps I just might do a bit of cross-stitching this afternoon....though I do have some catching up of Torchwood and The Killing to do too. I need to have a daylight light and a comfortable upright chair...making watching TV not feasible...I alway make loads of mistakes when I try .

Hope you are all well and stitching lots, putting me to shame. I really need to get my Xmas production into full gear soon, as well as lots of other bits and pieces. So perhaps some time spent planning what I need to do would be productive .

Have a great Sunday - still rainy here

nykied

I like my Kindle but I hardly use it. I'd use it if I went on holiday though - I usually take at least 5 books with me. If you're into all the classics, they're all free books on the Kindle.

Flat_Eric

Thanks for your comments so far :j It would have to be a kindle if I was going to buy an e-reader because I run Linux instead of windows and the sony e-readers are not compatible with Linux With the kindle, I don't even have to connect it to a computer to download my books.... I do like the idea of being able to get all the classics for free... although would I ever read them ?

I like the idea of the dmc thread box. the box is lovely but I have a lot of dmc threads already. I have noticed that sew and so sell complete sets of the anchor and dmc threads for £300 odd :eek: oh, to get a few balls on the lottery....

Here is the snoopy I mentioned I was stitching.


Snoopy! by Flat Eric on Flickr, on Flickr

I only started him on Wednesday morning. He was very easy and very pleasant to stitch. I'm stitching a Lickle Ted xmas design now :j

MoosMummy

For me a kindle would win hands down but I would also be tempted by this http://www.cross-stitch-heaven.co.uk/full-set-of-dmc-stranded-floss-in-storage-boxes-4897-p.asp

I'm hoping to finish the teddy tonight, DH went to Asda to get spuds and veggies to have a roast them realised he hadn't got the chicken out the freezer so we're having pizza hut lol, once I've had that the stitching is coming out and I will stay up late if I have too, I just want it done now so I can start this http://store.stoneycreek.com/dolly-mamas-no-!!!!!in-in-my-kitchen-p5781.aspx I can't wait to stitch with a colour other than brown

Observer

I'd go with the box. I'm also not sure about kindles but I think the thread box is not something you would buy if you already had the money sitting there - then you might feel more inclined to spend it on a kindle. Whereas if you are saving it SPECIALLY for the box then that is worthwhile and way more fun

Can I ask - Why do you wind threads onto bobbins?? I don't get the reasoning whats wrong with a skein???

Ps I love snoopy he is fab!!

*Louise*

Soulie wrote: »

Not going to post pics here cause this is the cross stitch thread and not the card making thread lol So here you go.

Front
Inside

They are great, can't wait to try them :T

Btw - I'm not sure anyone would mind in the slightestif you had actually posted the pics I posted a dinosaur the other week :rotfl:

Mags_cat wrote: »

Wow - that thread box is lovely :drool:

However - it comes with all the skeins but they aren't wound onto bobbins? I think I'd rather do *anything* else than wind 400+ skeins onto bobbins! :rotfl:And then, do the bobbins store neatly in the box? (i.e. are the drawers deep enough to store bobbins?).

I wondered this myself, I would love the box but my DMC collection is already on bobbins and I would never be happy with just skeins sitting in a box (once you started unravelling them they would get messed up)


Keiss - welcome back :j

Been away for the weekend with hubby - he wanted to go 4x4 offroading so I got dragged along. There was a big group of them, met some lovely new people and had a brilliant time.
Quite scary at parts, especially when the truck went into a boggy ditch and almost tipped over (we were about 4 degrees away from that happening lol) the others attached the top of the truck to a tree across the river to stabilise it then winched us out. :T
Got some great pics and they are all planning the next weekend away already...gluttons for punishment.:rotfl:

Anyway back to the stitching - Corrie is coming along, not as fast as it usually would, the chart is really cluttered and not so easy to follow the grid lines so it's slowing things down a bit.

postingalwaysposting

Flat_Eric wrote: »

I have narrowed it down to things that I simply could not justify buying because they are expensive. Here is the list

1. Kindle / Kindle cover / light
2. Thread box (complete set of dmc threads in lovely wooden thread box)
3. Harry Potter Audio complete Harry Potter audio collection
4. Holiday
5. dvd recorder

What would you buy ?

Thread box, hands down! I have a kindle and love it, used daily. I prefer reading than hearing someone read to me. I have a holiday once a year so its nothing really special. I don't have enough time in the day to watch normal tv let alone something recorded :rotfl:

Mags_cat wrote: »

Can't you use something like Calibre (free) to convert the file formats to suit the Kindle?

Yes you can so you can buy books from anywhere. I haven't tried it however, there are so many free/for pennies in the Amazon store that I haven't needed to yet

Need to finish the reindeer this week, however I seem to have picked up quilling (my other craft) again so doing lots of that lately.

Have a good evening all