Cross Stitch Cafe 2012

JCS1

Thanks for the welcome, I will start posting on here as everyone seems so friendly.

I'm in between big projects at the moment, finished one last weekend so thought I would do a few small ones before starting the next one I have planned.

For the bookmark - I've put a warning on their facebook page as well as on here, and also emailed the publisher.

It is a very nice design though, just wondering if to start again on the right size fabric

blue_eyed_girl

Welcome to the Cafe JCS. Looking forward to seeing your piccies.

Hope you enjoy your holiday brednall and that the weather picks up for you. We love the Lake District - it has been one of our favourite places for many years but we are having a bit of a change this year and we have had a break in Harrogate and we are off to Chester in a couple of weeks time and then back to Harrogate towards the end of the year with some friends.

Again no stitching done here today as I feel absolutely shattered and just want to put my head down and sleep. Trouble is I've just washed my hair and it is still soaking wet. Nothing much on tv tonight so we will see what happens then .......

Enjoy the weekend everyone (despite the weather)

b_e_g

shelly

Welcome JCS!

Please do post, we always like new members

I meant to stitch this afternoon but we both fell asleep

Dorastar

Re-stashed my stash today - I seriously don't need anymore for a few years so going to spend my summer (7 weeks of school to go) doing mostly stitchy things :j

Plan to get the sewing machine out and start some 'real' sewing too and get dd involved - does anyone know any good books/patterns/websites to start us off on simple stuff?

JCS1

Let's see if I can figure out how to post pictures! This is the one that I finished last weekend, took 5 months. It's currently in soak, need to try and get it washed and ironed this weekend so can take into the framers next week.

catwoman150

Chicky PP is coming along great

Thanks Louise I have ordered 948 and 818, hopefully they will come soon so I then can finish off two pieces.
I love the blackwork sampler. Its very effective.

That sounds nice Mrs M

23rd Lovely fabric

Abatha sorry I cant help, I dont get that mag.

FOS I hope that they did have a plan B if not hope you didnt get too wet at the wedding

Welcome JCS1, lovely pic of the cats

Brednall, its lovely in the lakes, sorry I cant help with stitchy shops before you go. Maybe a quick google search might bring some up for you.

shelly

JCS. The cat design is really nice, I love it!

JCS1

shelly wrote: »

JCS. The cat design is really nice, I love it!

Thanks - saw the chart on an american website, and didn't realise until it arrived that it has 60 shades in it. It's a present for OH's Mum, she had a black cat and white cat, sadly lost the white cat last year so thought it would be a nice present.

chickywiggle

*Louise* wrote: »

for those who have a homebargains near them i saw these in there today (or something very similar) i think they were £1.99

JCS1 wrote: »

Afternoon everyone,

Long time lurker here

Just wanted to warn anyone who has the new Cross Stitcher and is planning on sewing the bookmark that came in the cover kit.

The fabric I had was 14HPI, and the material included is not big enough to fit the whole design on. It's also too big to fit on the bookmark backing, I suspect it should be stitched on either 16 or 18 HPI (haven't yet worked out which).

Disappointing, as I've done a third of it before sewing the edging to the right end and finding out (I thought at first I hadn't found the centre correctly).

helllo.

thats awful (but seems to happen quie a lot with SOMETHING being wrong)........ hope you complained.

the cats are lovely!

brednall wrote: »

Afternoon to all

Off on holiday next week to Bowness-on-Windermere and just wondering if any of you lovely peeps are from that area and can tell me if there are any good craft/stitchy shops around? Not sure my family will want to visit them but if we 'happen' to be nearby, I can always pop in. Planning to take some smaller bits and bobs with me plus 'Row of Love' to do in the evenings after little ones are in bed but I probably won't get any done at all - lol!!

Regards

Emma

ermmm I hate to say this but Bowness is in the middle of nowhere...... seriously.....nowhere!!! (apart from an elusive nightclub called the wheelie-bin by locals)

used to be a lovely pub (i'm going back 7years) caled 'the ship' (we think) which has dancy clubby stuff underneath --- where me and hubby got together.

there is a lack of crafty shops. there's one in Penrith if you stray that far but nothing special.

A lakeland plastics in Windermere next to the train station.

you must go to Ambleside too. i was a student there so if you wanna ask anything.

Flat_Eric

brednall wrote: »

Afternoon to all

Off on holiday next week to Bowness-on-Windermere and just wondering if any of you lovely peeps are from that area and can tell me if there are any good craft/stitchy shops around? Not sure my family will want to visit them but if we 'happen' to be nearby, I can always pop in. Planning to take some smaller bits and bobs with me plus 'Row of Love' to do in the evenings after little ones are in bed but I probably won't get any done at all - lol!!

Regards

Emma

I love the Lake District and have been several times over the last few years. I would also be interested to find out if there are any stitchy shops because I will be visiting again soon and I can then plan a trip to said town and then oh look (dearest fiance), stitchy shop, I might be a while :rotfl:

Ambleside is worth a visit (Daisy's Cafe) for Breakfast?Lunch and the Apple Pie Bakery/Cafe for a takeaway sandwich lunch. Their Bath Buns are also very yummy! Gaynors is good for walking gear if that's what you need although sadly not very :money:

There are some cool lake district designs on sew and so - shame there are not enough hours in the day to do them all.

Re Cross Stitcher ! what a shame. I think I have 16 count in my pack but I'm not sure ??

I was tempted to start this yesterday but I don't really get the design. I'm guessing what its meant to say is Read Me ? but I have to turn it every which way to see that ? and then I'm still :doh: so I think I will give it a miss.

Its a shame that they didn't have the silhouettes of the letters as was done with the Happy Happy House recently. That would have been cool.