Cross Stitch Cafe 2012

chickywiggle

As featured in Cross Stitch Crazy's Club of the Month.




Welcome to the Cafe's new thread.

Have you got some UFO's (UnFinished Objects) still to finish??

Setting yourself deadlines for stitching cards and pressies?

Half way thro a huge project and needing motivation to finish?

Found a fabby stitching bargain that you want to share??

Just really want to get something off your chest??

Then grap a cuppa tea and come and have a moan, come a borrow ideas, or just look lovingly at everyone else's projects.

Don't forget to set yourself up a Flikr photo album account - and join the group over there to share your projects easily.

How to share your pics from FLIKR:
1) Go to the picture you want to show us click the 'Share This' button on the top left of the picture, this will show you a number of options and the one you need is called 'Grab the HTML/BBCode', Tick the button for BBCode and it'll convert the code to what you need.
2) Copy the text in the box and paste it into a new post on MSE and it should have everything you need to insert the image into your post. You can check this by clicking Preview Message.

We also have a facebook group here which is great for sharing discount codes/ fab links etc for any FB addicts.


This is a continuation of our 2011 cafe (which can be found here and here ) but don't worry you don't need to have actively participated in that to join us now.

So what are you waiting for?? Grab yourself a cup of tea, a shiny new needle (as is the law with a new cafe thread) and share your latest project.

chickywiggle

Last years list of cafe members.

Really sorry but I don't have time to keep this updated this year. If anyone wants to please do, if you drop me a message with any updates I will happily paste it here.


No1 - nmm
No2 - Bubbles911
No3 - *Louise*...... look at my blog here
No4 - Simac
No5 - Dorastar
No6 – Littlestar1981
No7 - Thrifty
No8 - Mrsmacawber
No9 - shelly
No10 – Maria and the Imps
No11 – Harley1
No12 - Chickywiggle - my diary can be found here
No 12 and a half - 'tinywiggle' & 'babywiggle' 'toddlerwiggle'
No13 – Keiss21
No14 – Emzy81
No15 – Mountain Ash
No16 - Lelc
No17 - Funfairprincess
No18 - Elliep
No19 - Kezbabybabe
No20 - Craftygranny
No21 - Witchwoopiggy
No22 - Louiseey
No23 - 23rdspiral
No24 - Spottybutterfly
No25 - sweetcarer
No26 – Skoobie1
No27 – Ruth Honey - check out her blog here
No28 – Mad as a March hare
No29 – Erics Mum
No30 - Welshlassie
No31 - cazmcf
No32 - niamhirl
No33 - Myzdamena
No34 - Charliec45
No35 - littlemisschocolate
No36 - cassolete
No 37 - LindseyandMatthew
No 38 - natc
No 39 - zuzieq
No 40 - Elle1267
No 41 - Lilliant
No 42 – sammykaye18
No 43 – ab7167
No 44 – bikerchick1066
No 45 – sammr85
No 46 – awesome2
No 47 – pennib
No 48 – Mrs_Ryan
No 49 – tellmeitsfriday
No 50 – Mags_cat
No 51 – Sammyw
No 52 – millymoomoo
No 53 – vivkietm
No 54 - catchooky
No 55 - Flat Eric
No 56 - Nannon
No 57 - Wallaby214
No 58 - ejs2311
No. 59 - Ailsb
No. 60 - Marru
No, 61 - Nykied
No. 62 - Observer
No. 63 - Mrs-moneypenny
No. 64 - Tryingtobeoldstyle
No. 65 - Trying hard
No. 66 - blue_eyed_girl
No. 67 - sophieandemily
No. 68 -clarew
No. 69 - caroline78
No. 70 - Soulie
No. 71 - Moosmummy
No. 72 - The Dragon
No. 73 - Froddington
No. 74 - PerfectParadox
No. 75 - sugargurlie
No. 76 - Aime82
No. 77 - *Jellie*
No. 78 - Patchymel
No. 79 - Emma133
no. 80 - KatyLiz
no. 81 - QueenB
no. 82 - Cricket1234
no. 83 - auntieH
no. 84 - MandM90
no. 85 - Judellie
no. 86 - augustsmummy
no. 87 - dizzylizzie
no. 88 - debtdalek
no. 89 - flowerofscotland
no 90 - Catwoman150

chickywiggle

Useful Links

many Thanks to Kez for her hard work compiling this thread. If you know of any good ones to add please PM them to me.

Our Favourites:
Sew and So - www.sewandso.co.uk also on facebook
Across Town Stitching - www.across-town-stitching.talktalk.net (Great for cheap threads) also on facebook which has a 15% discount (until end of september). They also have an ebay shop.

Other sites:
Elite Designs - www.elite-designs.co.uk
Siamese Craft Stitcher - http://www.siamesecraftstitcher.co.uk/
The Happy Cross-stitcher - www.thehappycross-stitcher.com
Country Cross Stitch Kits - http://www.countrycrossstitchkits.co.uk/
Cross-stitch World - www.crossstitchworld.com/
Cross-stitch UK - www.crossstitchuk.com
Al's cross stitch page -http://www.alscross-stitch.co.uk/
Celtic Rose Needlecraft - -http://www.celticroseneedlecraft.com

Amercian Based Sites:
Heaven and Earth Designs - http://heavenandearthdesigns.com
The Silver Needle - www.thesilverneedle.net
Mystic Stitch - www.mysticstitch.com

Artist Specific Sites:
Michael Powell - www.michaelpowellart.co.uk

Make your own charts:
Pic2point - http://pic2point.com/main.php

thread convertors
DMC - find similar shades - http://pic2point.com/dmccolors.php#
DMC: Anchor - http://www.stitchtastic.com/useful/AnchorToDMC.aspx
Madeia: DMC - http://dmctransformation.tripod.com/M-DMC.html
How to work out how much aida you need - http://www.cross-stitch-centre.co.uk/acatalog/aida.html

chickywiggle

Happy shiny new thread everyone.

My aim for January: Finish Troutbeck

My aim for February: Finish cut-thro Princess Palace.


(will post progress pics in a bit)

The_Dragon

Hmm my aims so far are

1. Finish crocheting scarf for my Mum
2. Finish crocheting my scarf
3. Crochet a scarf for Dr Dragon
4. Get more of my stitching sent out to Stunt Stitchers and done!

Willow92

So far: Finish all kits that were sent to me from different users on here

postingalwaysposting

Happy new thread stichers :j My aim for Jan is to complete half of the baby dragon as I want this design finished before March. I shall post an updated picture soon.

Have a great new year all :beer:

catwoman150

:xmastree:Hope everyone had a good christmas day and all the best for 2012 :xmastree:

wit40iwtwan

I've got several UFOs can I join?

tellmeitsfriday

Hello everyone

Hope you all survived....!

I will think of my aims later, I just need to nap off my dinner x

Ruth_honey

Hi everyone! Just popping to say happy Christmas to you all. Hope you've enjoyed your day. Above is a pic of the card I stitched for my mum. I stitched it whilst I was stuck at home with a chest infection. Never did manage to finish the dragon for DH, but I'll try and do it tomorrow. It's still Christmas then, right?