Cross Stitch Cafe 2012

maria_and_the_imps

Cat women I do yes pm me your address and i'll pop it in the post x

*Louise*

benny1981 wrote: »

http://kincavelkrosses.wordpress.com/

This is a nice website with a lot of different quick stitch ideas.

I believe this is allowed if not I apologise and if someone tells me I will take the link down

Thanks for that - there is a cute 'Think outside the box' design which is going on my list


Mrs M - I'm so sorry to hear that I've never tried a white pen before, will test my new one before I do my ballerina!

QueenB.

HP-sauce Those fish are beautiful such a wonderful colourful design.
Louise I'm sorry to hear the show wasn't exactly what you had hoped for but at least you managed to get some bits even if they weren't x-stitch. I have never been to a show before and I do worry about how much I would spend if I did actually go.
FoS :T Congrats on finishing the UFO, its always so satisfying.
MRS-M So sorry about pengate.............though it did occur to me that if it was a design of the Titanic it was slightly ironic;) I hope you find a way to salvage it.

I haven't really done much stitching today but I did manage to have a sneak look at some websites...........very dangerous:D. During my search I found the birth sampler that I want to stitch for my niece. It is the Gorguss runaway sampler. I adore the gorguss girl design but nearly all the stuff I have is for my card making...........tons of decoupage and stamps. I did buy one gorguss stitch design the other month but haven't started it yet but the runaway piece is just perfect. Now I have to decide where to buy it from. I saw it on the Bothy website but then found it on e*ay cheaper. The problem is that I haven't brought anything from e*ay in years and I'm a bit nervous about doing so in case it all gets muddled.

have a fab evening all:)

*Louise*

The eagle eyed among you will notice a bit of a change in my signature....

After counting all the finished pieces in storage the other week, I got to wondering how many pieces I had actually completed in total (as you do):o

So, including the 91 in storage, and as many gifted pieces as I can remember (I have a photo album with pics of completed pieces going back 10 years) I have worked out that the Chained Fairy was my 170th completed piece of stitching. It is possibly more, but I don't have any record of stuff I stitched from age 17-20 so this is as close as I can get.

Last push tonight to get Candlelight completed - she is nearly there :j

catwoman150

Mrs M I'm so sorry to hear that someone on here said about lemon juice working. ( I'm unsure who now ) they might be able to tell you more. All that hard work just gone in a blink of an eye. Its not good. I would email the suppliers that someone suggested to see if they can help.

Maria I will pm you in a minxx

catwoman150

I have found that sometimes it is cheaper to buy aida and threads from the usa. I know if the pound is good against the dollar then I have ordered a bit from some usa shops and it works out cheaper than buying it from eg sew and so, I have also got metallic threads and kits and it may work oout cheaper then ebay.
It might help some people out.

*Louise*

Can you recommend some usa shops that you use please? :T

sk00bie1

Hey lovely ladies,

Just checking in and catching up with the thread, thanks for posting all your great photos as always!

Louise - 170!!! :eek::eek::eek: wow thats amazing! I've heard good things about The Silver Needle but I haven't actually used them myself and I don't know how their prices compare.

Sorry to hear about your pen going wrong Mrs-M, I can only suggest what tellmeitsfriday has suggested already.

Chicky - Troutbeck looks wonderful!



I have had a lovely and somewhat busy week off and of course have not been able to manage as much stitching as I'd like but never mind!

I am still in the middle of Fizzy Moon for MILs mothers day card. Someone posted a few pages back they found it hard going and I agree! I've had to dig out a no 28 needle in order to make any progress!!! I plan to take it to work and do some stitching during lunch, hopefully a week's worth of lunchtimes will be enough!

Ruth_honey

Just quickly popping in to say I've used 123 Stitch before & would recommend them. Must catch up with you all properly soon. xxx

*Louise*

Urgh

I completed Candlelight at 11.30pm. As I was putting in the final letters of the initals I heard noises from upstairs - DS1 had thrown up all over his bedroom floor _pale_ If there's one thing in life I can't stand it's vomit, so hubby bravely went to clean it up while I looked after DS1.

A few minutes later I looked at DS2, he was a bit white so I got a bowl and just as I was handing it over and saying 'take this just in case' he threw up as well (spectacularly caught in the bowl by me I must admit) :rotfl:

So that is three schools gettng phone calls in the morning (DD was sick again at 2am the previous night) and I'm off to sit awake for a while and see if any of them are ill again. ah the joys of parenthood!!

I'm going to make a start on the cap badge while I stay up. Reallly not looking forward to potentially catching this bug myself!!!:eek: