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

flowerofscotland

HappySocks wrote: »

I'm being thick but I can't seem to find any free silhouette patterns, only paid for on american sites.

Here are some free designs - some in one colour, others using more colours but lots of different designs


Be warned it's a great site with lots and lots of kits and charts to tempt you

*Louise*

flowerofscotland wrote: »

I ordered the kit from cross-stitch-heaven which is where I think Louise bought hers from. I haven't seen them advertised anywhere else in the UK though I didn't look very hard as this is a site I have used before.

That's where I got mine from as well, (along with their sparkly pastel aida pack:o) prices are reasonable but delivery can take around 2 weeks,

flowerofscotland

maria_and_the_imps wrote: »

just popped on to share and to say hello to HappySocks.
will try to post more just crazy busy at the moment!

Love this and I completely agree with the sentiment

Nice to see you - even briefly

maria_and_the_imps

Thanks it's up above my daughter book case in her newly decorated bedroom. She is a big book worm bless her and she loves this as the saying is up at school aswell

mrs-moneypenny

maria, that looks really lovely and a great reminder to grab a book.

the sal looks lovely, i like the nice fresh colours its been done in

*Louise*

flowerofscotland wrote: »

Here are some free designs - some in one colour, others using more colours but lots of different designs


Be warned it's a great site with lots and lots of kits and charts to tempt you

I was tempted by the 'Whale Tail'...but omg at the finished size of it!! :eek::rotfl:

Ayeshalush

Sweetcarer - your pieces from Tams Creations are lovely. I have bookmarked them for my to do list.

Maria - lovely work

HappySocks - the Hello Spring is a lovely, bright piece. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Below is the piece from the WOXS diary that I almost binned. Decided just to finish it but not do any more of the back stitch. THe back stitch was just around the flowers and leaves on the cats body and was in grey and green but it just looked messy. Couldn't unpick the little I had done at the bottom but it's not too obvious hopefully.

[IMG][/img] image by Alicatt2, on Flickr

Won't be doing any more out of the diary as they contain lots of fractionals and the back stitching is a nightmare for such small pieces.

Ali
Xx

flowerofscotland

*Louise* wrote: »

I was tempted by the 'Whale Tail'...but omg at the finished size of it!! :eek::rotfl:

I know. I thought it was a misprint at first when it said 10 pages. I thought there some nice Xmas designs

If anyone likes Celtic knot type designs here are some nice free patterns. Only available free for 2 weeks

flowerofscotland

Ayeshalush wrote: »

Sweetcarer - your pieces from Tams Creations are lovely. I have bookmarked them for my to do list.

Maria - lovely work

HappySocks - the Hello Spring is a lovely, bright piece. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Below is the piece from the WOXS diary that I almost binned. Decided just to finish it but not do any more of the back stitch. THe back stitch was just around the flowers and leaves on the cats body and was in grey and green but it just looked messy. Couldn't unpick the little I had done at the bottom but it's not too obvious hopefully.

[IMG][/img] image by Alicatt2, on Flickr

Won't be doing any more out of the diary as they contain lots of fractionals and the back stitching is a nightmare for such small pieces.

Ali
Xx

I think it looks ver pretty. Lovely colours

flowerofscotland

HappySocks wrote: »

Sweetcarer your purple work is lovely, not sure I could mnaznage something like that yet, looks very detailed!

I think I'm going to try the 'hello spring' pattern from the Lizzie kate site.

Here's the version I stitched in colours from my stash on left over sparkly Evenweave



image by stitchyfeather, on Flickr

Looking forward to seeing yours when you can post photos