Cross Stitch Cafe 2012

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Thank you for all the lovely comments, my mum is scottish so i hope she likes it, i've finished the large rose and most of its black border, just the 3 smaller ones to do then i can get back to wolfy

Louise, wow earth is coming on so fast you'll need a new project next month :rotfl:I usually just do days, but the RM is coming on so quick i did it in hours Although my days are only 1-2hrs of stitching

shelly

Louise. Still loving the Earth, very nice progress.


I have an update. I know it's only days since my first update but as it's a small design I have got it done, well nearly done, quicker than I anticipated. In real life the blue has come out really nicely, I'm really pleased with it.
All the full and half stitches are done, just the backstitching to go.



Not a very good pic as it's on a phone. I really must get hubby to show me how to get pics off the camera and onto my pc sometime

Soulie

*Louise* wrote: »

When I say 'Days', it can mean anything from 1 to 5 hours worth of stitching in a day. For those of you who manage to calculate the hours - how do you keep track of it so well?

I am kinda OCD about keeping track of how long it takes me to stitch a piece, and I'm sure no one does this but......
I write it down on a piece of paper. I make sure I start stitching on either the hour, quarter past, half past or quarter to. I then 'stop' my stitching on those times too.
When I am done for the day, I check what I will probably be stitching in the next session, and pre-thread needles so I'm not faffing about as much and wasting stitching time :embarasse

brednall

EVening all

My thread sorting resulted in 11 duplicate Anchor skeins so if anyone is interested in them, please PM me.

Still trying to get Home Sweet Home done, just about done all the letters, just got a bit of the decoration to do then.

Still stitching some small things inbetween too. A couple of blank coasters came today from Sewandso so I know now what size I can work to and still fit the designs in the coasters when finished.

Great progress pics - loving the Country Companions design but I love this sort of thing.

Have a great evening everyone.

Emma

Flat_Eric

chickywiggle wrote: »

Hi all,

Everything looking fab. Louise you reallly do work quickly.


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very off topic bit about interviews

GRR am sooo cross (kinda at myself). Had an interview today for a job which on paper I should have walked.
the whole thing seemed to go ok. had a good chat with the interviewers as we sorta know each other but only as voices on a telephone as we work in the same field.

THEN the job is full time. at the any questions bit I asked if I could continue my normal working pattern (4 days 30 hours) due to childcare, however as soon as hubby could get the paperwork through I qould be able to take on the full time role.

Honestly the response I got was quite frankly rude!! Being told that it was a full time post (as there would basically be no one to do my job if I wasn't in). This begs the questions: what if my kids are sick when they start school??? Am I allowed holidays?? (ok i know the legal stance but you get where I'm coming from).

basically they said they are interviwing x amount of people and that only in exceptional circumstances would I be employed on 4 days until the paperwork is sorted.

to me this seems soooo wrong. I explained I was asking them now as I didn't want the possiblity of being offered the role and then having to struggle with childcare (there is no point hubby changing his hours unless he has to but I can't force his HR to put it thro in x days).

I asked if perhaps a job share would be possible (as am sure my work would let me do 2 there, 2 in new post if required) but they basically said no.

what happened to the days of women being allowed flexable working??? I am sure this is blatent discrimination.

With the attitude I got part of me doesn't want the job now and for the pennies in wage difference (basically £500 a year) would be tempted to tell em to shove it if i did get it on the grounds my kids will always come before a job! My current rold is safe (which I know I should be glad of given the current climate) I just hate it.

anyway end of point just wish I hadn't even mentioned it!!! Then it would be there problem if i was offered the job and then told em.

what would you have done??

end of off topic.

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Am getting there with PP. ALMOST finsihed the backstitch - hopefully will get a completed pic up tomorrow.

Must go get ready as taking the brats swimming when we pick DS1 up from school then onto either pizza hut or KFC.............. or the pub.... hmmmmmm

OFF TOPIC

Hmmm I would be fuming too. I thought employers had to be flexible when it came to employment of working mothers/fathers. It strikes me that they have done you a favour by being so upfront about their feelings on the subject particularly as you say the salary increase is modest. When my cat was poorly the other morning I delayed my arrival into work just so I could sit with him for ten minutes instead of rushing out the door. (mad eccentric me!) when its your child, its a whole different ballgame and I'm sorry but family come first. It will be interesting to see whether you are offered the job. I fear that employers are becoming cheeky (for want of a better description) as they know they can get away with it/there are plenty of other people who will willingly work for less/do more.

ON TOPIC

Looking forward to seeing Princess Palace finished :j

shelly wrote: »

Louise. Still loving the Earth, very nice progress.


I have an update. I know it's only days since my first update but as it's a small design I have got it done, well nearly done, quicker than I anticipated. In real life the blue has come out really nicely, I'm really pleased with it.
All the full and half stitches are done, just the backstitching to go.



Not a very good pic as it's on a phone. I really must get hubby to show me how to get pics off the camera and onto my pc sometime

Wow! This is going to look fantastic when the backstitch has been added :j

Flat_Eric

flowerofscotland wrote: »

What's the stitch count? That will allow you to calculate the design size if it isn't already there.
You mentioned other stitches - what are they? Stitching them on aida may be more difficult than evenweave.
Quite a few of us here have made cushions so you won't be short of help in making one

The stitchc count is 145 x 154
design area 15 1/4 by 16 1/4 (39 x 41c)

The (unusual) stitches (I think) are just backstitch or perhaps a more accurate description is long stitch back stitch. In places, they have used 4 strands.

I think I will stick with the 19 count material suggested but will probably wait and save the project for a rainy day. :j

blue_eyed_girl

Louise - earth is looking great. Thanks for comments re mags.

chicky - hope things work out for you re interview/work.

shelly - little hedgehog on slide looks so cute. Colours are lovely.

Soulie - I admire you working out your stitching time so accurately - you must be so organised. If I did it I would have no stitching time left.

Might try and get no. 3 of Art Deco minis finished tonight. Can't wait to get some food - am absolutely starving. Trying to get back into sensible eating, no inbetweeny nibbling and stuff. While we were out this afternoon, I managed to have just a coffee - must admit I did stand staring at the cakes for a while but nothing really appealed but normally that wouldn't have stopped me.:o.

Called into the Range and they had some very reasonably priced frames - I think the larger ones worked out quite a bit cheaper than Ikea. I was trying to price one up for Sleeping Beauty - nothing like forward planning.

Hope you all manage at least a few stitches tonight.

b_e_g

*Louise*

MrsF - Hope you have managed to get some stitching time today. Men can be worse than kids when they are ill :rotfl:

Chicky - sorry to hear that, I reckon it sounds like a slim chance of them offering it to you now, which is so unfair. Tbh they don't sound like a reasonable company at all and you can just tell that 6 months down the line if one of the kids was ill they would be giving you hassle about needing time off.

Shelly - I actually think the blue looks better with the yellow than the original?:T Such a cheerful design, it's so long since I did any CC. Last one I did was a pictureof the hedgehog next to a wishing well - quite a big project which I made into a cushion as a gift for someone. I was gutted to notice it in their house a couple of months later with a cigarette burn in the front

Soulie - that is very organised I wouldn't be able to do that because I'm forever stopping and starting lol. As for stopping on an hour - no way!! I don't have that much willpower :rotfl:

b_e_g - Pricing up the frame before the kit is even here?...now THAT is organised!:T:rotfl:

JCS1

I have a confession........

After an argument with OH at the weekend (men :mad:) I ended up on ebay, and I have had the full set of DMC satin threads on my watch list for a few months............. they arrived today and look gorgeous :T

Just got to wind them all onto bobbins now

JCS1

*Louise* wrote: »

b_e_g - yes, CSGold is mainly larger projects. If you like smaller ones then perhaps look at Cross stitch crazy? WOXS is my favourite mag which I have had for years, so I can't help with cancelling, sorry:)


Day 11 when I last updated




Now - Day 16, 4 pages completed




When I say 'Days', it can mean anything from 1 to 5 hours worth of stitching in a day. For those of you who manage to calculate the hours - how do you keep track of it so well?

Louise - it looks stunning!

I don't keep track, well I did many years ago when I got a specially designed book for that (complete with a rose design to stitch on the front), but think I managed 2 entries before I didn't bother anymore. Must dig the notebook out and make more of an effort, suspect it's in the cross stitch cupboards with everything else