Cross Stitch Cafe 2011 ..... part 2

Keiss_21

Lovely work everyone :T

Still not done any cross-stitching for months!! Hangs head in shame.....

I seem to be doing so much other crafting atm...really need to get back to the Elegant Lady before she walks away in disgust!!

Then there are all the Xmas projects to do...oh please can I get at least one extra day in the week...only for crafting/cross-stitching you understand! :rotfl:

*Louise*

Keiss - nice to see you posting...come on, get some of that lady done!:j


The weather here is shocking, it's pouring down and the wind is howling. Such a turnaround from yesterday, have had to put the lights and heating on temporarily :eek:

Just me and DD in atm, don't need to go out till half 3. she is snuggled up watching Toy Story 3, I am all cosy under a throw with a cuppa, some jelly babies and about to sart stitching....lovely jubbly :rotfl:

Keiss_21

Yes miss, will see what I can do this afternoon!

Ooh Toy Story 3...haven't watched it yet, though have the DVD...sons didn't fancy watching it with me when I got it a few months ago (well, they are 18 and 21!).

Can't seem to stitch and watch tv though, reserve tv for my knitting

Now must get that bread started...I need to make four loaves today. Then perhaps I'll get started on some carrot cake, seem to have a glutt of going-over carrots atm, have made soup, so now cake here I come! :rotfl:Then perhaps I will get some stitching done!

Have a good day everyone x

Ruth_honey

Can't remember if I posted this or not. Sorry if I already have. As there was some talk about afghans, I thought I'd add the pic of the one I stitched. She wanted to be able to hang it on the wall, so I hemmed the top & fringed the rest (no sewing machine & not very good at sewing, but I did it!)



I bought the fabric at a stitch show & the charts were from a chart book that my friend chose. I wasn't a big fan of the designs to be honest, but it wasn't too bad to stitch. I have another 2 blank afghans in my stash. I wanted to stitch some Margaret Sherry cats on one and maybe some Christmassy designs on the other.

Have changed my browser to Google Chrome & hopefully it'll stop the MSE forum crashing my PC constantly. Have been reading all the posts, but it's tricky to reply on the ipod. Will catch up when I have time. Need a quick bath, then off into London to see a close up magic show later.

Ruth_honey

23rdspiral wrote: »

:T that's fab!! (any chance of a . I've never seen Meg n mog in any craft before... Where did u find it?

It was in Cross Stitch Crazy October 2007 (issue 103). I'm sure there's another chart in another issue, which I should have somewhere, but can't remember what number-or even year!-it was.

Edited to add, the other chart is here for £3... http://shopping.originpublishing.com/chart.asp?id=922&category=3

augustsmummy

Thank you all for your kind wishes . The prep is going as expected and is awful, you'd think I would be used to it as it is my 3rd one of this test, but I guess somethings you never get used to.

Saying that though it has given me a good excuse to sit and stitch (like I need an excuse :rotfl:) and I am busy stitching the tree bit of "on the beach".
Stitching really does take my mind of everything.

Hope you are all having a stitchy day
AM x

mrs-moneypenny

welcome to the newbies
love all the photos posted
just grabbing a couple of mins on the puter before the kids come home from school
hugs for augustsmummy and anyone else who wants one
cracking on with the flowers-pansies done the pale blue and yellow centres on all three and just got the white to do on the last one
taking mil out for a drink tonight as shes 84 today

shelly

Augustsmummy. Hope all goes well tomorrow.


I got some good stitching time in this afternoon. Done lots of fiddly areas that were between 1 & 15 stitches in size. I don't like little areas like that but once stitched they bring the design together.

23rdspiral

Have fun starting uni katyliz!

Best wishes for the tests august mummy.

Maria, u stitched that sewing sampler quick!

I managed to get a little stitching done last night. Snuggled under a blanket with my new floor stand.

Ruth_honey wrote: »

It was in Cross Stitch Crazy October 2007 (issue 103). I'm sure there's another chart in another issue, which I should have somewhere, but can't remember what number-or even year!-it was.

Edited to add, the other chart is here for £3... http://shopping.originpublishing.com/chart.asp?id=922&category=3

That's cute! But I prefer the one u had! A would be lovely, thank you. you've remembered my email right. Sorry I mean tot pm u... My oh hasn't been well so I've been picking up all the slack and have been quite frazzled.
(could I ask a favor please? Could u edit your post to remove my email provider? I trust u lot but this is an open forum and it may be guess-able!)

maria_and_the_imps

Evening all hope you have all had a good day. Good luck tomorrow august mummy hope all goes well, will be thinking of you x
Haven't had much to do today so spent the day working out my poem and started stitching this evening and have done half the poem tonight and will probably stitch the other half whilst ds2 has his nap tomorrow. Then just a bit of decoration round the outside, because I want it to be quite plain, will explain why its so important to me when I post piccies

23rd, thanks its not really that big and now the 2 biggest are at school all day and baby sleeps for 2 hours during the day I seem to have a lot of time on my hands lol