Cross Stitch Cafe 2012

flowerofscotland

Skoobie - the monster sign looks great and will be truely original

blue eyed girl - love the tulips and the frame really sets them off = no one would guess the cost. I'm with you in the "floral camp"

I'm the wrong person to advise on storing magazines as i have hundreds and keep them all complete. I like to use A4 plastic storage boxes though I can't say this is the best way to save space. You could remove the charts and articles you like and put each one into a plastic sleeve with holes and then file them in lever arch type binders. I do this will the various free and single charts I have accumulated. I didn't do this but wish I had - sorting the charts by subject and/or designer and then separating them using dividers would make it easier to find a specific chart. That's a job for when I have some spare time (think I may have a window around Jan 2016!)

*Louise*

flowerofscotland wrote: »

You could remove the charts and articles you like and put each one into a plastic sleeve with holes and then file them in lever arch type binders. I do this will the various free and single charts I have accumulated. I didn't do this but wish I had - sorting the charts by subject and/or designer and then separating them using dividers would make it easier to find a specific chart. That's a job for when I have some spare time (think I may have a window around Jan 2016!)

^^That's what I do - it took me a weekend to sort out about 70 magazines, I now have 6 A4 folders, which still take up space but at least I can find stuff now :rotfl:

sweetcarer

Ok now its cross stitch time.

Feeling a wee bit down but still got an update for you. Just the one I do from work to show off. Not being able to sort through stuff - keep meaning to but meh! (good word)

Hope everyone is ok where ever they are in the world

sweetcarer

flowerofscotland

Well a week after I finished it here is the photo of my latest finished UFO Millennium Sampler - 12 years in the making - can anyone top that?:eek:


Millennium Sampler finished by stitchyfeather, on Flickr

I also framed my Keep Calm and Cross Stitch. The frame is an oak Conran frame which I got in the M&S sale - not quite as big a bargain as b-e-g's £3 frame but still a lot less than the original price. It's unusual in that the glass is set back in the frame though you can't really see that in the photo.


Keep Calm and Cross Stitch framed by stitchyfeather, on Flickr

This week I have been working on Imagine (thanks Louise:T). It's the same design that Skoobie is about to start. I've used a piece of sparkly hand dyed evenweave from Polstitches that I had in my stash (it was part of a grab bag from there)


Imagine WIP by stitchyfeather, on Flickr

Not sure how much stitching I will get done this weekend as have visiters tomorrow so major house cleaning and tidying required today I don't have the beads to finally finish it off anyway

flowerofscotland

Ailsb - good deal on the Cross Stitch Card Shop. If there are any designs you really want from this month's WOCS I'm sure one of us will have a spare copy

tellmeitsfriday - those blackwork fairies are stunning; I've also seen some of the stitched models at shows and they look wonderful - the photos don't do them justice

chickywiggle -thanks for the heads up about the free listings weekend. Hope you get lots more done on PP

Flat Eric - love your new challenge. Like MrsMP and Louise I find it is more realistic to cut back than eliminate spending altogether. And I find this is more successful for me - if I set a target of no spend and break it then the challenge is over whereas it is much easier to keep going where the goal is spending less

Tricksie - you must have made some good progress in a couple of hours and I find it's no good carrying on stitching when tired as that's when I make mistakes and have to unpick:eek:

catwoman - yes that is definitely a dragon:)

sweetcarer - sorry to hear you are not feeling great; your flower sampler is lovely

Now back to the housework

mrs-moneypenny

beautiful updates everyone,
i love the millenimum sampler, keep calm and imagine - beautiful fabric.
dragon is looking really great
sweetcarer snowdrops is looking really good, the back ground fabric really sets it off

hope everyone is having a stitchy weekend.

chickywiggle

fos they are fab - love the millenium sampler.... 12 years isn't bad lol.

Hmmm to ebay tonight or tomorrow??

blue_eyed_girl

Love the blackwork fairies.

Good progress with dragon catwoman.

Thanks for the suggestions for storage fos and Louise. Thought I would try to get a system in place before the magazine pile gets too high.

Love the snowdrops sweetcarer.

Well done on completing Millenium Sampler fos - 12 years not that bad. Looks great btw as well as Keep Calm and Imagine. I haven't tried sparkly fabric yet ......

Just started the AOY kit that came with WOXS. Just done the plum colour and just had enough thread - will have to be careful with the others. It seems quite a fiddly little bit of fabric too.

Enjoy your stitchy Sunday everyone.

b_e_g

*Louise*

flowerofscotland - the millenium sampler looks fantastic! :T:T:T

Flat_Eric

well the weather is, as predicted, rather rainy and windy so aside from dashing up the shop to get a paper and taking delivery of my food shop later, I don't expect I shall be venturing out.....

I did manage a little bit of the bookmark I'm stitching last night but not much. (mainly while waiting for BGT - bored of that now though?!) I have also noticed that despite marking the material out in blocks of ten (and the last block 4), I have overstitched by one square. so the last block has 5 stitches instead of 4.

I'm tempted rather than trying to unpick to just continue stitching this extra row as there seems little point in faffing with the unpicking and making a mess and getting frustrated! Also I suspect as it is a bright blue I am stitching with, you will see that there has been a stitch there? Will hope to retire to the sofa with that later.

Hope everyone has a lovely stitchy sunday planned :j