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

CoffeeandStitches

Also, sorry to clog up the thread... but I'm not familiar with Flickr, I can see my full name, and no my username on Flickr. Can everyone else see it? Or are you just getting my username?

How do I change it if it is showing? I'm sorry, I just can't seem to get the knack of it!

winniepooh

shelly wrote: »

Hi ladies.




Thanks, I completely agree and know exactly what you mean! I have a few like this in my stash, lots of small designs that end up making one big one, I really like stitching them.


Hello to newbies, Mrs ceejay and scotty. You're both welcome and look forward to seeing your pics

As promised, an update from me though I had to charge the camera just enough to take a pic and upload it to my pc as it was flat as a pancake

Here's where I was 3 weeks ago,



and here's where I am today,

Wow I love this Shelly, Im starting to get ready for the Christmas period :j

So ive decided to take a break from my stained glass windows and ive got 4 xs Christmas decs to make so that's what im doing tonight after I've made my cheesecake.

nmm

CoffeeandStitches, just had a quick look, that's a lovely picture for your first one and I see your username not full name, hth

Shelly, your santa/snowman pic is looking great, so bright and colourful, have you much more to go?

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Well I survived my week in France with the outlaws lol! A few testing moments but on the whole we had a good time - 8 adults, 8 children.

Loving all the picture updates - thank you for sharing. I'm hoping to get back into French Flower Shop this week, although I am at Thorpe Park on Monday, then working Tues, Wed and Thurs. We shall see. Quite enjoyed doing the smaller projects the other week, as it gave me a sense of achievement. Maybe I should look through my stash and see if I can have a tandem project - is that a good idea?!

Coxy

shelly

Hi ladies.

Winnie. Thanks! Look forward to seeing pics of your xmas decs.

Nmm. Thanks to you too! Not an anwful lot more to go, just the colourful snowmans scarf then the black bits are santas mouth, snowmans smile, snowmans eyes and snowmans coal buttons on his front then finally all the backstitch.
On the design there's quite a few french knots in the cuff of santas hat and sleeve but I'm not going to do those, I'm going to use beads instead. Local HC have small pots for 99p but I haven't bought them yet as they do all sizes from teeny tiny to quite big and not wanting to buy the wrong size I'll take the design to the shop once done and decide the size then.

I have a couple more xmas designs in my stash that I had hoped to have ready by xmas but I have no chance at the rate at which I stitch!
I think I'll just be glad I have 1 to display this year and hope for another one next year :rotfl:

flowerofscotland

mrs ceejay and scotty. Hello and welcome:wave: looking forward to seeing our update photos when you can post pics

shelly. I hadn't noticed the background to your snowman and Santa before Really like the trees

coxy. I've always worked on more than one project as I like to swap about when I get a bit bored with one project. Quite a few people seem to have one big project and intersperse it with some smaller pieces like cards

coffeeandstitches. Love your anniversary piece

winniepooh. Good luck with the decorations

I plan to do some more stitching on stitchers 12days while watching the final episode of The White Queen

flowerofscotland

Here is the latest photo of my Stitcher's 12 Days of Christmas with Six Chatelaines completed


Stitcher's 12 Days of Christmas WiP August 2013 by stitchyfeather, on Flickr

This was one of the most time consuming sections as there were a lot of colour changes including lots of different colours of back stitch. I took this photo this morning and have already made good progress on the next section

nmm

My latest update for BD, I got loads done last week and I hope to finish page 7 today.



Shelly, that sounds great with the beads and the backstitch will make it come to life

Mrs_ceejay

Hi ladies,
Nnm
The !!!!! cat is just great,it looks as if it is complicated,with all the different shades of white.

I am doing two elephants (mum and baby) which has just 12 different shades of grey!not one stitch is the same next to each other. It will look great when done but not sure my eyes will last that long.
Not figured out how to down load pictures,can anybody help?

Mrs_ceejay

Hi hmm,
Sorry about all the exclamation marks,not sure what happened.brain not in charge of fingers