Cross Stitch Cafe 2012

sweetcarer

Well done Chicky in completing your stitch you done an amazing job

Where do I sit - only have one or two places in our mushroom. If I am doing small items I do them on the corner chair with hubby beside me - I sit by the corner bit and lay out the materials in front of me. I have a "stressless" like chair from Ikea that I also use for my larger projects and I can't sit beside hubby. I also like having a fabric sofa as I can use it as a pin cushion!

How did I start - did a very small book mark at guide camp and enjoyed it and gave it to my mum (think she still has it - will have to ask) and a couple years after she bought me issue 2 of cross stitch collection - I fell in love at first sight, so much I ordered up issue 1 and been with it since then so that was way back 1993 I think. Cross Stitcher came out a bit later and I bought it, until it started to diasappoint me last year.

The wedding pattern in issue 1 I have used a million times for weddings - I have bought more copies on ebay - always scared I am going to lose it again and I have at least 2 skeins of each colour it requires. I even used it as the base as my parents 40th anniversery gift.

brednall wrote: »

Afternoon all

Rant time

Why do ebay sellers put 'lots' of cover kits up for sale and then include in their listings wording to the effect of 'no instructions included but can be stitched by copying the front cover picture'?

I'm sure it's not that simple or why bother with charts at all!!!!

Emma

Shows you not a real stitcher selling then! I do half remember for a while cross stitcher did have the charts inside too - as I used to do them on the bus - must of been many moons ago.

Well I am off next week down to sunny Wales (Cardiff area). Looking forward to a bit of time away. I am also doing two of these for some girls at work who have had babies recently.



Hubby says not to put pressure on myself to do it, as I don't know them that well and I am not getting paid for it - but I have the material in the house - left over from the floral alphabet and I have used colours from small stash. So in reality it is only costing me my time and a pound for the frame at the £shop. It is also small enough to pack and take on holiday.

Oh don't know if I told you that hubby loved his wee stitch - his comment on facebook was "That's the greatest gift a wife can give, something she makes herself."

My thread idea is on the back burner just now and I think when I get back I will apply to Avon and see if I can make some money that way. There is approx 20 women in my immediate area at work so it may work.

Oh well, off to sort out what to pack. Sort Sam's stuff for her wee holiday at my parents.

So keep well girls, catch you when I get back

Kind wishes

sweetcarer

Soulie

chickywiggle wrote: »

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good luck.

Thank you, going to email them now

flowerofscotland

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That is gorgeous!!! :happyhear

Would look great just with some random tropical fish dotted about

Hmm...I'm sure there was a tropical fish design library type thing in a magazine not so long ago?[/QUOTE]
The August issue of Cross Stitch Crazy has some tropical fish designs - was this what you remembered?

flowerofscotland

*Louise* wrote: »

How I started

When I was about 14 or 15 my mum bought me a cross stitch kit for christmas. It was two forever friends bears on a swing with a big heart of flowers over the top. Looking back it was a bit OTT for a beginner but that was me. I think I made it into a cushion but I have no idea what happened to it.

I remember that kit and I know I stitched it but like you I can't recall what happened to it. I framed it so perhaps I gave it to someone. It was a lovely design

flowerofscotland

Mags_cat wrote: »

2 solutions to that :

1) create another free account - but you'll need a different (free) yahoo email account, which can be a pain to remember the details for

2) make yourself a Group on Flickr (see the help pages for how to do it). Then you put your older photos in the group so you can still see them, and the newer photos will show up in your normal photo stream. Incidentally, you can have as many photos as you want on your free Flickr account, it's just that only the most recently uploaded 200 shots show up.

Thank you so much for this - I intend to try the Group route as 2 accounts would as you say be messy - I had thought about doing PhotoBucket or one of the others but wanted my stitching photos in one place

flowerofscotland

Haven't done an update for ages - partly because I have not been cross stitching much (have been doing other types of needlework though)
Here is my progress on my Angel Stocking

DSC03284 by stitchyfeather, on Flickr
It's stitched on cream with gold flecks evenweave and the red and green perle threads also have lurex in them - you can't really see this on the photo. Thread Heaven had really helped with the lurex perle.

Not sure how much I will progress with it this weekend as need to finish a couple of sundresses for youngest GD as they go on holiday as soon as they finish school

chickywiggle

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have just been introduced to this ever so crafty blog and knowing you lot as I do just had to share.

http://itsallfiddlefart.blogspot.co.uk/

JCS1

shelly wrote: »

Hi ladies.

Here's CC slide all done, well it's as finished as it's ever going to be. In the end I only left out the backstitching on the hogs jumper. It looked too harsh, looks much better without it. Haven't ironed it yet, will do so when the iron is out next.

chickywiggle wrote: »

wahhhooooo - it's done.

Loving the completed designs :T

JCS1

I started stitching when I was 13. My older sister had done some cross stitch as part of her A Level course in Fashion in Fabrics, and so when it came to picking a project at school, it was a typical case of little sister wanting to do the same as the older one!

First one was a printed cross stitch kit in a small flexi hoop of a cottage. It was around that time that Cross Stitch Collection and Cross Stitcher first came out, bought the magazines, and that was it.

Must be 22 years ago now :eek:

Flat_Eric

brednall wrote: »

Afternoon all

Rant time

Why do ebay sellers put 'lots' of cover kits up for sale and then include in their listings wording to the effect of 'no instructions included but can be stitched by copying the front cover picture'?

I'm sure it's not that simple or why bother with charts at all!!!!

Emma

I agree this is very annoying and seems to be a common theme. I suppose in most instances, the chart isn't included with the kit so the two get separated. I hate it when people say, oh follow the picture because I think it is near on impossible to do so.

chickywiggle wrote: »

wahhhooooo - it's done.

Its amazing! :j Whats the tally on how long its taken you ??