Cross Stitch Cafe 2012

Observer

Congrats on the job PP.

Hmmm, i like the look of that lap frame........

Soulie

chickywiggle wrote: »

not got that one ...... sooorrryyy. Have zillions of spare bits of light green but that's probably no good.
Have you tried asking on the WOXC facebook group (i assume it has one) incase there's anyone there with a kit going spare?

Not to worry, thank you though.
Yep, the fb group was going to be my next port of call. I am going to finish off what I can on it, then post a pic on the group

mrs-moneypenny

debtdalek wrote: »

PP Congratulations on getting the job
Mrs MP Thank you so much for your efforts on my behalf and apologies if it took up a lot of your time re-reading the mags again.

it was no problem at all i found things i forgot i had and the bonus is they are all now in one place (the cupboard under the stairs) to make the next foray easier
i hope you manage to locate the one you are after

**curlywurly**

Hello stitchers
Hope you don't mind me imposing, and popping into your thread.

I have done one cross stitch, for my mum's 70th in 2007. It made her cry (with joy)(not because it was an appalling cross stitch!!!). Well TBH it also made me cry a lot because it was a complete labour of love, and it took FOREVER! AND I only just got it finished AND the framer let me down.

Anyway. It is my mum's 75th this year so I decided it's time to do another. I have nearly 12 months to do it so fingers crossed.

It's this picture:

But I don't have a pattern.

I have found a seller on Ebay who is selling some sort of software to make a pattern out of a photo. It's only £3 so I am happy to pay that and experiment. But if anyone has any better ideas, I'd be v grateful to hear them.

(Please remember I'm very new to all this, so if you do have ideas, I'd be grateful if you would present them as if you were directing them to a small child!)

Thanks All
Curly

Ailsb

PerfectParadox wrote: »

oh and.... GOT THE JOB! (hehehehe)

well done - really pleased for you. May have missed it, but what will you be doing?

Congratulations, great to hear some good news. :j:j

blue_eyed_girl

Congratulations PP on your new job. :T

Thank you for the comments on laminating. I am determined to give it a go.

Welcome to the cafe curly. Good luck with your Mums pic. I am sure someone will be along to offer you some advice. I haven't actually used the pattern/photo software stuff. Thats another thing on my 'to try' list . Look forward to hearing of you are getting along.

Hope the ladies who are tripping off this weekend have a lovely time.

Take care everyone

b_e_g

PerfectParadox

Ailsb wrote: »

well done - really pleased for you. May have missed it, but what will you be doing?

Congratulations, great to hear some good news. :j:j

well I will be working for a non-profit council housing department which used to be internal to the council but now is called "red kite housing"
I will be customer service assitant, basically if somethings wrong they call me and I have to find a way to fix it.
office is15 min walk away and cos its council theres lots of perks in the :money: dept .... I know cos I used to work at the council run library.

Judellie

**curlywurly** wrote: »

Hello stitchers
Hope you don't mind me imposing, and popping into your thread.

I have done one cross stitch, for my mum's 70th in 2007. It made her cry (with joy)(not because it was an appalling cross stitch!!!). Well TBH it also made me cry a lot because it was a complete labour of love, and it took FOREVER! AND I only just got it finished AND the framer let me down.

Anyway. It is my mum's 75th this year so I decided it's time to do another. I have nearly 12 months to do it so fingers crossed.

It's this picture:

But I don't have a pattern.

I have found a seller on Ebay who is selling some sort of software to make a pattern out of a photo. It's only £3 so I am happy to pay that and experiment. But if anyone has any better ideas, I'd be v grateful to hear them.

(Please remember I'm very new to all this, so if you do have ideas, I'd be grateful if you would present them as if you were directing them to a small child!)

Thanks All
Curly

Hi Curly,

Just a note of caution, if you use one of the converter programs they tend to pick up every little change of shade in a picture, so you have to set the number of colours you want to use very carefully, otherwise you end up with lots of confetti stitching (lots of single stitches of different colours and no blocks of colour). Hope that makes sense!
Another way to do it would to put some grafe paper on top of the picture and plot out the chart that way.
Hope this helps.
Jude x

chickywiggle

:bdaycake:Happy Birthday 23rd Spiral :bdaycake: (hopes she's remembered the right username).

elliep_2

if you want to experiment with charting your own picture, try googling 'KG chart' It's a free charting programme that I've used before. It tends to come out with pretty good charts, but I agree with the warning above about setting the max number of colours carefully.