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

sweetcarer

Hi everyone,

Another completion - the wee birth sampler for one of the girls at work. She asked me to do this one, as I had done one for her other son when he was born a couple of years ago and the older son asked why he didn't have one. Only thing different, is I was unsure of the frame size I used and the colours are slightly different.

So here is the one I have just done.



I know it looks a wee bit squint at bottom - hope its ok, tried to square it off as best I could.

Here is the one I done for his younger brother years ago - don't know why I don't have a picture of it framed.



I have explained to her about the colour difference. I have laced it in so if need do I can put it in a bigger frame if need to. Hope she likes it.

Annie, if you are not in a hurry for you design - you could wait to see what Ebay turns up or if any of the "shops" have a sale.

Kind wishes to all,

sweetcarer

mrs-moneypenny

morning all
coxy, little girl looks lovely - so cute

Annie lovely piece i hope you manageeto track it down at a price you are happy to pay.

sweetcarer, birth sampler lokslovely - they both do im sure the mum will be thrilled and its very kind of you to stitch them.

hope all are well

managed to get a bit more done on homes over the weekend. im on 8th of 9 now but havent touched the back stitch on 4 of those so a lot to do there!!

going to take titanic to the framers today

flowerofscotland

sweetcarer Your birth sampler looks lovely and I can understand why they wanted a pair not just one

Maisie_M

Hi all

Finally got round to doing some cross stitch. Can't believe that I am back to work in 2 weeks and I haven't done half the things I planned to do over the 7 weeks we have off lol. Too hot - well that's my excuse.

Anyway I have managed to do a Fairy card which has been in my stash for 6 years!! and I have also done a Russian doll and framed it for my neice for her birthday.
Fairy card August 14 by Maisiecm, on Flickr
Birthday present for neice August 14 by Maisiecm, on Flickr
I have also done the cross stitch for some little trinket boxes but need to decoupage them first and I have not done this before so a bit daunted by that.

Mrs_ceejay

Annie021063,
Found it in a shop I use,the Wye Needlecraft .com,in Bakewell,Derbyshire.
But is selling at £99.99 so the one on amazon is cheaper.
They used to have it done and framed in the shop,it is very striking and I should think it might take a few months (cough cough)
I would love to do it,hope you find a cheaper one soon,can't wait to see your progress.

Annie021063

Thanks for looking everyone, can't believe I missed one on eBay for £48!
It really caught my eye and as I love history and historical fiction it's definitely one for me x
New York coming on, still on target to complete by sept 3rd
Will update soon

JCS1

Mrs_ceejay wrote: »

Annie021063,
Found it in a shop I use,the Wye Needlecraft .com,in Bakewell,Derbyshire.
But is selling at £99.99 so the one on amazon is cheaper.
They used to have it done and framed in the shop,it is very striking and I should think it might take a few months (cough cough)
I would love to do it,hope you find a cheaper one soon,can't wait to see your progress.

You must be close to me if you go to Bakewell? I'm kind of the other side of Buxton, close to Leek/Macclesfield/Stoke

flowerofscotland

Maisie_M wrote: »

Hi all

Finally got round to doing some cross stitch. Can't believe that I am back to work in 2 weeks and I haven't done half the things I planned to do over the 7 weeks we have off lol. Too hot - well that's my excuse.

Anyway I have managed to do a Fairy card which has been in my stash for 6 years!! and I have also done a Russian doll and framed it for my neice for her birthday.
Fairy card August 14 by Maisiecm, on Flickr
Birthday present for neice August 14 by Maisiecm, on Flickr
I have also done the cross stitch for some little trinket boxes but need to decoupage them first and I have not done this before so a bit daunted by that.

These are really cute

flowerofscotland

Annie021063 wrote: »

Thanks for looking everyone, can't believe I missed one on eBay for £48!
It really caught my eye and as I love history and historical fiction it's definitely one for me x
New York coming on, still on target to complete by sept 3rd
Will update soon

As it is a kit that has been around for a long time there are probably lots of unopened kits lurking in stitchers' stash cupboards so you may find it appearing on EB again. Have you set up a search alert to let you know if anyone lists one again?

Annie021063

flowerofscotland wrote: »

As it is a kit that has been around for a long time there are probably lots of unopened kits lurking in stitchers' stash cupboards so you may find it appearing on EB again. Have you set up a search alert to let you know if anyone lists one again?

Yeah that's what I was hoping, how might I do that?