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

*Louise*

*Louise* wrote: »

I finished the threads from my second box on my DMC chart. I was about to post a pic but never realised I can't get the IMG code while accessing from the kindle :-/ Will try from my phone, if not I will post tomorrow.

Got to it eventually




So many fantastic pieces being framed at the moment, lovely to see them all :T

Maisie_M

quick update with piccies from me then I will go back and read what I have missed over the last couple of days.

Present for neice

megan birthday present Feb 14 (2) by Maisiecm, on Flickr
Thank you to whoever it was who suggested Ikea for Emily's Dolly Mama's picture. I saw this one when I looked at the links and it was perfect for my niece. Once I had completed that I decided to do a kit from a magazine for her card so got that one done and dusted too.

megan Birthday card Feb 14 (1) by Maisiecm, on Flickr
An finally before I use up an entire page of the cafe a small card I had done at the same time as the other ones I posted but for some reason didn't include with the photos - another freebie kit gone!!

Set of cards Jan 14 (8) by Maisiecm, on Flickr

Hope you all had a lovely weekend.

Maisie_M

Kez - Dictionary of tea is coming along grand.

Fos - love the wedding sampler. Is it cream linen that you are stitching on? You have some beautiful finished works and your framer has done a fantastic job on them. Geisha will look fab as a cushion.

Ericsmum the dog is lovely and so realistic looking.

beg - glad that coffeegate was not a complete disaster but still annoying.

tricksie - love the new kit you bought at the show. Very pretty and looking forward to seeing progress.

coxy - the stockings are coming along grand. Good idea to do some black in between the colours and it's so tempting to leave the boring bits to the end.

nmm - BD is looking amazing. Have you far to go?

chickywiggle loving your Hallowe'en sampler my boys would love that.

Mrsmp wow what a huge amount of progress on Titanic. It looks like a photo. It is amazing.

Mrs Ceejay the dinosaurs are coming along great. They are so colourful.

Emily Dolly Mamma looks fabulous. I love the design and the colours are amazing.

Emslovesmickey your nan and grandad look great. Bet you are really proud of it.

Louise hope you are feeling a bit better. Your DMC chart looks great and such a handy reference for the future.

nmm

So much to catch up on I will post my BD Update and my replies later when I have more time. Maisie, I have the current page to complete then 4 pages along the bottom, its getting there.

Ailsb

Apologies for the length of this post.

nmm - great progress on BD, not much more to go by the looks of it.

Maria - hope you are OK.

MrsMP - Titantic looks really good and I do think you are to be praised for doing this a second time I don't think I could have done it. As for the Valentines Word Art I will have to find my CSCS 89 out although I think it's too late for this year might see if it's appropriate for anniversary instead.

EM - Jack's great and looks really lifelike.

Kez - as normal I like your tea design.

MrsCJ - Your dinosaur piece is lovely, I'm sure you'll get it finished in time.

BEG - I've used Thread Heaven before when using metallic thread and it makes it a lot easier to use.

Emily - Dolly is lovely - well done. Did you sort a frame out for her? Very well restrained on not buying another kit.

Emslovesmickey - your photo-stitch is fantastic and so detailed. I agree with FOS you should expect tears when you give it.

FOS - Your dictionary of cakes and the ABC of Needlework look really lovely and very professionally framed, do you pay a lot to have them done? I think Geisha will look lovely as a cushion.

Louise - Your DMC colours piece is great but it does mean you will NEED to get the colours that you don't have in order to finish the piece.

Maisie - Thank you for sharing your finished makes they are all lovely.

Ailsb

I've finished Catherine of Aragon so that's 3 wives down 3 to go.


20140209_212424 by Ailsb1, on Flickr

Really pleased with how this is stitching up. Averaging one person a week so if I can keep going I should be finished in 4 weeks. That's allowing 1 week per person and 1 week to do the border and back stitch. I would to have it finished before the end of March so that's leaving a couple of weeks for any slack.

*Louise*

Ailsb wrote: »

Louise - Your DMC colours piece is great but it does mean you will NEED to get the colours that you don't have in order to finish the piece.

I did think about that before I started but aside from the variegated threads at the start I have only found two so far that I need to buy and I'm nearly halfway - I obviously haven't needed those colours in the past 15 years :rotfl:

Your 'Henry' piece is really coming along well, it's looking fantastic :T

ERICS_MUM

Ailsb, I love your project, glorious colours.

blue_eyed_girl

Emily926 wrote: »

I have finished Dolly, it took me longer than I thought with the border but she is finally done


image by emp88, on Flickr

That's me - she took the words out of my mouth. :rotfl:

Looks fantastic - will look great in one of the green frames.


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blue_eyed_girl

emslovesmickey wrote: »

Finally finished my photo stitch - obviously it needs ironing but here it is


nan and grandad by slaughter.emma, on Flickr

Well done ems on your photo stitch. Looks really great and they look such a lovely couple. I bet there will be damp eyes all around. Didn't seem to take you too long to stitch.

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