Cross Stitch Cafe 2011 ..... part 2

Dorastar

Can't remember he rname but she had the very first exhibition space as you walked in the first main hall. She was a lovely grey haired old lady who makes fabulous huge embroideries and I said jokingly blimey I can't even do a french knot and she said come back with thread, needle and cotton and I will teach you - and she did (I think)

It was Diana Springall - just googled her from the tickets website

"Diana Springall is amongst the most well-known of all British textile artists. Her work is found in many private and public collections, including the Embroiderers’ Guild and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
In a career spanning over fifty years, she has devoted more than half to full-time teaching and lecturing.
She was for many years a panel lecturer at the Victoria and Albert Museum, is a former chairman of both The Embroiderers’ Guild and The Society of Designer Craftsmen and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
She has written six books on Embroidery" - feel slightly stupid that she was teaching me to do french knots now!

tellmeitsfriday

Sometimes, the only way to learn is to have someone show you

Post a video on you-tube for us all to learn now!!!!

Glad you both had a good time....!!

debtdalek

Well still no stitching done this end and anyway my fingers, and the rest of me are freezing this morning.
I had a marathon session loading the cross stitch charts and some other crafty stuff I dug out last evening, as it was a free listing weekend and eventually managed to watch the Strictly results show about 9.30.

chickywiggle

ohh Dorastar sounds like a brill time.

Was feeling a tad festive today................


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Flat_Eric

chickywiggle wrote: »

ohh Dorastar sounds like a brill time.

Was feeling a tad festive today................


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I have been feeling rather this evening but thats made me smile

chickywiggle

awww hope everythings ok FlatEric. <<hugs>>

23rdspiral

thanks for the info dora, i'll look her up, sounds really interesting. i wouldnt worry about having someone 'famous' teach you... she wouldnt have offered if she didnt mean it, and by the sounds of it, she's made a career of teaching ect so that's just what she does.

chicky that's so cute! and very xmassy!

awe flat eric i hope you feel better soon

i wasnt woken by pins and needles last night! but i was by the wind

abatha

Completed a couple of the Hobbycraft Christmas Cross Stitch sets the other day



Really like the designs I picked

Flat_Eric

chickywiggle wrote: »

awww hope everythings ok FlatEric. <<hugs>>

hi, yes all is well, just one of those days when the weekend isn't long enough and work and too much to do, too little time = grumpy flat eric
oh and the news is always so depressing (in particular news widely reported yesterday)
counting down to xmas now - nice break from work - plenty of time to relax and stitch :j
I think I am going to talk to my doctor and get him to prescribe me stitching time :rotfl:

ps what is everyone getting for xmas ???? I'm naughty - if I see something I want, I buy it so come xmas and the like - I never know what to ask for ????

chickywiggle

Flat_Eric wrote: »

hi, yes all is well, just one of those days when the weekend isn't long enough and work and too much to do, too little time = grumpy flat eric
oh and the news is always so depressing (in particular news widely reported yesterday)
counting down to xmas now - nice break from work - plenty of time to relax and stitch :j
I think I am going to talk to my doctor and get him to prescribe me stitching time :rotfl:

ps what is everyone getting for xmas ???? I'm naughty - if I see something I want, I buy it so come xmas and the like - I never know what to ask for ????

ahhh I feel like that come Tuesday's. I think I managed 10 stitches last night!

I avoid the news as much as possible - anything important comethrough on my phone app as a newsflash.

Santa is USELESS in my house. He buys hubby and the boys lovely things but if mummy wants anything she has to write a list in triplicate and only gets what she has written on it! - no surprises! :mad: so stuff it. this year he has bought me a coat (which hubby actually chose himself **shock horrorr**).
In my stocking I shall be getting the new chelsea cain book (I say new it was out at the beginning of the year), the new discworld book, some choccy coins and I may just send him for something stitchy too).:rotfl: