The "no frills, no gremlins (hopefully)" cross-stitch cafe

Ruth_honey

Coxy-Love the flower shop. So much detail!

Sweetcarer-that Christmas pudding is wonderful! How long did it take you?

Not far off finishing my book. Cat has settled on DH tonight, so might get to read the rest now. Night all!

mrs-moneypenny

morning all
hope everyone is well
flowershop looks gorgeous
ruth honey hope you are well lovely to see you popping in

tricksie

moments_of_sanity wrote: »

Ladies,look at what I was lucky enough to find on a well known bidding site, they arrived this morning and I am soooooo pleased. They are dated from '86 & '87 and are in great condition, cost me about £2.80 including postage

Can you tell I love the designs of these?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/91707691@N04/10533473463/

They are lovely. I knitted some for my children when they were babies DD still has hers but DS wouldn't know where to start looking as he lives in a constant mess!

Coxy11 wrote: »

Hello everyone,

Sorry I haven't been posting but I have been reading along and keeping up with news. Hope you are all ok after the storm

tmif - love attic24 and your bag is amazing. I find crochet much easier than knitting (never seem to be able to get the tension right when knitting)

fos - the stocking looks amazing, did you make a decision on the backing fabric yet?

pm2326 - the panda is coming along great

sweetcarer - I love the pudding, well done on your competition success. Did you follow a pattern? The samplers are great, I love the Spring colours.

mos - your Dad's stocking is so lovely and colourful. I wouldn't have a clue how to make one up though What wonderful 'vintage' designs you've managed to get, they're great!

Mrs T M - look after yourself honey

luckycat99 - gorgeous wedding sampler, hope your sister loves it.

In my news.....I have had no response from the Guide parents (37 of them) regarding whether their daughters would like to stitch something. I'm not going to waste my time making up mini kits with my stash, for them to be wasted. I've managed a few small designs over the past few weeks, so will try to make some more for cards, bookmarks etc. Church want to charge us £15 for the stall though :eek:

Lastly........drum roll please......I HAVE FINISHED THE FLOWER SHOP :D:D:D:D:j:j:j

Hope this link works:

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Santas Clothes is ready at the framers but I won't be able to collect until Friday. Will take !!!!!! in then.

Happy happy happy!!!

Coxy

This looks amazing! What's next?

moments_of_sanity

Tricksie - I made my girls a fabric advent calendar when they were small which they still have and despite being treated to the Boots advent calendar this year, my nearly 18 year old Daughter still wants her fabric one hanging

Did a lot of the fiddly bits on the final area last night, just off to hang a second load of washing on the line and will then concentrate on the tree. Really need to get a wriggle on as have another couple of things I want to do before Christmas :eek:

Coxy - your flower shop looks amazing, any thing else you do will seem easy in comparison!

shelly

Hi ladies.

FOS. Stocking is coming along nicely. Which fabric did you choose in the end?

Caroline. Blimey you have been busy! Really like the coasters especially the cupcakes and butterflies.

MOS. Nice update, really like the design.

Louise. Look forward to seeing your 12 ladies progress.

Pinknfluffy. Welcome to the cafe! Look forward to seeing updates on your Christmas Post design.

Tricksie. Love the Cats design you have chosen to do next, look forward to updates on it.

PM. Nice Panda update, it's coming along great.

Sweetcarer. Congrats on your 2nd place, pudding is lovely! Nice updates too.

Luckycat. Love the Mr & Mrs, very nice!

Rhaben. Wow! Reindeer is gorgeous, I love it! I'd love to do something like that but I fear I could do the cross stitching bits but would struggle to make it up at the end.

Coxy. Flower shop is beautiful! No wonder you're happy, you should be, it's lovely.


Sorry to read some of you had a bad time with the storm and now have damage to fix. Luckily here we got off lightly. Lots of rain and gusts of wind but no personal damages to contend with.

As for me.
Not attached beads to Santa & Snowman yet, hopefully will do so before xmas!
Still enjoying the Rose garden, will post an update in a seperate post as this one is already quite long

shelly

Here's a reminder of the original,




Here's my progress,




As I mentioned before the colours are quite a few shades darker in real life than the original pic suggests though I don't mind that at all, think they look nicer being darker. No idea what kind of light they took the original pic in!

mrs-moneypenny

that looks lovely shelly great start

Mrs_ceejay

http://www.flickr.com/photos/101718380@N08/10554099434/
I think I have posted a photo of my little dinosaurs x

Mrs_ceejay

http://www.flickr.com/photos/101718380@N08/10554669613/
Another little dinosaur.still not sure how i'am doing this! X

Mrs_ceejay

http://www.flickr.com/photos/101718380@N08/10554831393/
This is my snow leopard,sorry it's bitty but just chuffed this not technical bod has managed to post photos.
The flower shop is fantastic,so much detail x