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

shelly

moments_of_sanity wrote: »

Does anyone here have a caravan or go on caravan holidays? The reason I ask is I love to do cross stitching when I am away but I find the lack of light a problem and I really don't have space to take my crafting lamp and wondered if anyone had managed to find a good source of light that is easy to transport?

Ikea do a series of lamps called Jansjo in both clip on style or free standing. I have a clip on one and it's really handy as a back up incase my over head bulb blows and hubby isn't around to change it.

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/search/?query=jansjo&category=products&min_price=2&max_price=10

Former_MSE_Andrea

Hi everyone!

We just wanted to let you know we're experimenting with Pinterest at the moment so you may like to look at our Crafting board. There are lots more fantastic pins on there too, some from you guys of cracking forum crafting tips - thank you!

MSE Crafting

We'd love to pin more of your fantastic crafts on there so please do take photos and include them in your posts to help us pin them

Post us some links below if you know of any we can pin!


Also, just a reminder in case you don't know, there are a couple of crafting twitter hashtags that may be useful for you:

#cbloggers
#crafting

JCS1

I've ordered the WW1 kit. Seems a fitting tribute to stich this centenary year.

Mags_cat

How do we opt out of having photos we put in this thread "pinned"?

Former_MSE_Andrea

Hi,

If you don't want forum users or us to pin them add a clear note in any posts you've made with pictures so people know.

It can't always be controlled I'm afraid as Pinterest automatically pulls in pictures from the thread without the text but we'll certainly try not to use one if someone's asked not to. If we do use one, let us know.

JCS1

Mags_cat wrote: »

How do we opt out of having photos we put in this thread "pinned"?

I was wondering that too.

Mags_cat

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Hi,

If you don't want forum users or us to pin them add a clear note in any posts you've made with pictures so people know.

It can't always be controlled I'm afraid as Pinterest automatically pulls in pictures from the thread without the text but we'll certainly try not to use one if someone's asked not to. If we do use one, let us know.

Oh dear. That's me not posting any pictures here then. I'd prefer a decent "opt out" rather than a blanket "opt in but we'll take them down if you ask us".

The Flickr group's still going though, ladies, so keep posting them there

mrs-moneypenny

how do we join the cafe flicker, im in the 14 in 14 one and that was by invitation.

Mags_cat

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

how do we join the cafe flicker, im in the 14 in 14 one and that was by invitation.

If you go to the group - link on post 1 I think there should be an option to "join". We've kept it to approved people only so we're all comfortable posting on there. Let me know when you've done that and I'll go and approve you

(If your Flickr user name is different to here, let me know by PM so I know who to approve!)

JCS1

Mags_cat wrote: »

Oh dear. That's me not posting any pictures here then. I'd prefer a decent "opt out" rather than a blanket "opt in but we'll take them down if you ask us".

The Flickr group's still going though, ladies, so keep posting them there

Me too. You would have thought they would have asked before going ahead and setting everything up.