Cross Stitch Cafe......where your "to do" list gets longer by the day

chickywiggle

cross posted FE. and great minds think alike - i messaged Louise yesterday to see if she was ok but not heard anything back.

maria_and_the_imps

I've been wondering about Louise as well, let me know if she gets back to you x

nmm

chickywiggle wrote: »

Do you know in the future these magazines may be helpful as when someone like FE is looking for a chart they will be able to type a bit (like "stocking fillers" into google and our posts will come up then the magazine will be easy to suss .

I came across another site that has a database of charts and if you type in what you are looking for, it tells you the magazine and issue. http://www.cyberstitchers.com/patterns_directory/ it has over 40,000 patterns i'm sure most can be found unfortunately not FE's bookmark

chickywiggle

nmm wrote: »

I came across another site that has a database of charts and if you type in what you are looking for, it tells you the magazine and issue. http://www.cyberstitchers.com/patterns_directory/ it has over 40,000 patterns i'm sure most can be found unfortunately not FE's bookmark

i found that one but didn't have time to play - it looks fab.

simply Cross stitch was the magazine i thought it could have been as there were bookworms in the christmas issue in 1998 (but FE said it was 1999).

chickywiggle

eeeek London underground is gonna be huge!!!! apparently 24 x 17.7 inches (approx 61x45cm) on 14ct aida or 18.6 x 13.8 inches (46x36 cm) on 18ct. think i may have to get 18ct (eeek never used anything smaller then 14 before)

and it doesn't say if that is allowing for a mounting excess (i think not)

maria_and_the_imps

Chicky what's the stitch count ? And how many inches do you want for mounting and framing each side? Let me know I have an aida calculator app I'll work it out for you if you want

chickywiggle

maria_and_the_imps wrote: »

Chicky what's the stitch count ? And how many inches do you want for mounting and framing each side? Let me know I have an aida calculator app I'll work it out for you if you want

ta,

it says tis 335 stitches x 248 stitches. not really sure what i normally leave for framing, i tend to get whatever the closest aida is and make do :rotfl:
have found 18ct at 50x55cm which would be ok (I think) but its not a pretty one and a pretty one at 49x55cm (but in reality i'm guessing will be same size as the other one :rotfl:)

chickywiggle

ohhhhh Maria I will be interested to see what sizes you come up with.

I like this.

Now using this calculator it would be fine.

But EXACTLY the same figures in this calculatr say it'll be too small.

maria_and_the_imps

Ok my calculator has worked it out as below with a 2" boarder all the way around for framing

14ct - 28 x 22"
18ct - 23 x 18"

maria_and_the_imps

I make that in cms

14ct - 71 x 56 cm
18ct - 58 1/2 x 46cm