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winniepooh wrote: »

me in the paper

http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/News/Sewing-lifeline-turns-into-business-venture-for-bipolar-sufferer-20130913155937.htm#

It's so nice to read a happy story. Best of luck winniepooh

Flat_Eric

43teabags wrote: »

Flat Eric - pleased you found your material. Can't stand the thought of starting a piece all over.

TBx

Yes I was so cross yesterday, I was on the verge of buying replacement material and starting again ! I had looked at the chart I had marked off and realised I hadn't stitched the whole heart and worked out I had probably spent more time looking for the material yesterday than actually stitching it !!

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

afternoon all
FE glad your missing fabric turned up, ive been trying to send you finding vibes.

winniepooh, good luck with the new business

hope everyone is well (including those that dont get time to post anymore)

just finished knitting a baby cardi so tiger cub is out again now for the rest of the weekend

Thank you for your find me vibes

Yes ditto winniepooh. Good luck :T

also ditto :wave: to those who don't get chance to post.

Flat_Eric

Has anyone seen the new Margaret Sherry xmas chart design that is now for sale on her website. It looks amazing! although I think I would go slightly dotty tackling all that backstitch!

emslovesmickey

flowerofscotland wrote: »

The cut thru series are fabulous. Chickywiggle who started this group did one. It might have been the pirate ship. There are some photos in our flickr group of her wip tho i couldn't see the finished piece. Really worth the effort. I also love their Dictionary series
Photo stitches are wonderful but again a lot of work
Perhaps you should choose the easiest of your 3 kits for your next project
Looking forward to seeing progress photos:)

Might be an idea! :rotfl:

The photo stitch one is going to be my favourite i think as my mums parents were the best grandparents i could have ever had and i still miss them every day.

sweetcarer

Flat_Eric wrote: »

I've just found the missing material........

Yeah!!!! I try to keep all my stuff together I am working on - just now I have 3 in my rotation but the cat has a habit of sitting on it so hubby has to move it and I can't find it. But he is learning how to put it where I can find it.

nmm wrote: »

Oh no just read on ATS facebook page that they are closing down clicky

So very sad - not only good prices for DMC but Anchor for those rare projects I do in Anchor.

winniepooh wrote: »

me in the paper

http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/News/Sewing-lifeline-turns-into-business-venture-for-bipolar-sufferer-20130913155937.htm#

Good luck with it all. Cross stitch helps so much - hubby says I go into a bubble not be disturbed by anyone and I manage to lock all out around me when doing it - so no time to think of other stuff - quite relaxing except when frog visits!


Thought I share my latest update on my winter sampler.



Had to take a break on it - as I have an emergency wedding sampler to do - someone at work - didn't know till day after wedding and she is back from honey moon later this week so want to have it done for her getting back.

Also I had a massive frog attack on my learning sampler which ended up me unpicking it all . While doing satin stitch I was meant to do 5 lines ever 4 spaces but I done it other way round - doh!

Keep well everyone - till next week if not before.

sweetcarer

Mrs_ceejay

Hi
One dinosaur pik done just all the back stitch to do,that always takes longer than you think,but started plotting out the next one.Spent most of the morning tiding and cleaning,didn't do any last week as I was stitching.Just finished,grand kids arrived,chaos,I don't know why I bothered!!
Good stitching everyone x

celestius

Hello - not posted here before as I did not realise it existed! I just love xstitch!

Anyone done the Dimensions 'galloping horses' kit? I am so frustrated as I keep running out of one of the greens, and I have to get more sent from America - when it arrives there just isn't enough!

I tried using their conversion chart and using a similar colour from DMC but that is a disaster, completely different - I will have to unstitch quite a bit

Given up on it for the time being and almost finished the Dimensions 'brilliant butterfly celebration' - so much easier!

Just got an order form from Bothy Threads Autumn sale, think I will try one of those kits next - any other sales around?

mrs-moneypenny

morning all

celestius wrote: »

Just got an order form from Bothy Threads Autumn sale, think I will try one of those kits next - any other sales around?

i got that letter its quite god, first kit full price every other one you order is half price. if youre ordering more than one you only pay full price for the dearest one.

hope everyone had a good stitchy weekend.

sorry to hear you had some unpicking to do sweetcarer

Flat_Eric

I was a bit miffed yesterday. I popped into $miths to have a browse of the stitchy mags - there were quite a few special mags on the shelves but sadly they just seemed to be a re-hash of what has been published before. I was sorely tempted by the £7.99 xmas special that comes with thread, card mounts, ribbons and buttons until I had a nose in the mag and realised most of the designs I had seen before.

I'm also frustrated as was browsing e^ay yesterday (looking for small xmas kits - similar to what I had seen in h0bby8raft the other week). I spotted a few kits I liked but then spotted the listings were for chart only or chart only / leftover thread. Hmmm. Pft. etc

celestius

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

morning all



i got that letter its quite god, first kit full price every other one you order is half price. if youre ordering more than one you only pay full price for the dearest one.

Yes thinking of ordering about 10, I love having a stash to stitch or give as presents!
I did the Both Threads Animal Alphabet once, easy and fun!