Cross Stitch and Craft Cafe 2019

Coxy11

Morning everyone,
Hope you all had a good week/weekend. It's the first day of the school holidays today and I have a much needed day off. Not that I'm doing anything relaxing mind - DD has her theory driving test this morning and we have a smart meter being fitted this afternoon. You could say I'm living the dream......
Managed an hour or so on my cross stitch yesterday after blitzing the house. I did some 'life admin' on Friday night accompanied by some good red wine. I have been volunteering for around 10 years with a particular organisation and due to a couple of annoying incidents in the last few weeks, I've decided that I'm better off stopping. A shame, but my time is very precious and when you feel undermined and unappreciated it's time to go. On the plus side, I will have more time to stitch, so bonus!
As part of that, I have cancelled craft group going forward and had some chocolate (stuff Lent).
Hope you all have a good day.
Coxy xx

nmm

Oh coxy, i'm sorry you have stopped volunteering and your craft group but you must do what's best for you, at least more stitching time is a bouns. I hope you can make or join a new group.

nmm

Latest Wild Wolf update, not done much as my dog has been poorly since Friday. Knit & Natter today, i'm exhausted but I really need to get out for a couple of hours, i'll remember to take a photo this time.

Coxy11

Morning all, happy Sunday,
Glorious sunny day here, but a bit of a frost. DD has a job at a local garden centre for the Summer, so I'll take her around 930am.
Busy week, but I did manage some stitching - all the sand/Shells below the little girl are now done. I'm now working my way up the right hand side to finish that section off. After that it will be blues and greens for the sea at the top of the design. I can definitely see the end in sight now. I've taken a pic on my phone but Flickr playing silly beggars so will hopefully upload later.
Hope poorly pooch is on the mend nmm and that you managed to get to knitting group this week.
I'm hoping to spend a little time in the garden today, then do the ironing for the week. Hope to stitch tonight all being well.
Have a good day all,
Coxy x

nmm

Sunshine here too, had it all week which is unheard of in the Lake district, haha. I did go to my K&N group but I was the only who turned up this week so I came home early. Dog is on the mend she has Epilepsy and its been a tough week finally caught up on some sleep and did a bit of stitching yesterday.

nmm

Latest updates on Wild Wolf and the Crochet Shawl, off to my knitting group later, I hope they turn up this week

Coxy11

Loving the updates nmm - shawl colours are great I am a bit annoyed as when I picked up my stitching on Sunday evening I quickly realised I'd gone wrong somewhere. It's only the sand colour so in the grand scheme of things, not too bad, but I'm a bit of a perfectionist and now want to find where I've gone wrong!! It's from the section I did previously that I'm now stitching up to. Maybe I should think of this piece like a Persian rug as apparently every one of those has a slight fault.....
Sorry to hear about pooch's epilepsy. Our dog had it too. We adopted him at 2.5 years old and six months later he had his first (to us) fit, which was very distressing. Vet gave us tablets for him, which he wouldn't swallow, kept spitting them out - even in smelly cheese chunks. In the end we resorted to grinding them and sprinkling them on his food, but he would realise and only pick. Gave up in the end. We just made sure he was hydrated and didn't over heat. The fits continued - 2 a year maybe - but he was 14.5 when we had him pts last September, so not bad all things considered.
Sorry, that turned into a bit of a ramble....!
Fat club tonight as I can't go on Thursday (out for dinner). Hoping to pick up my stitching tomorrow again and find the fault!!
Coxy

nmm

I hate when you realise you've gone wrong I have to find the error as well, I couldn't just leave it :rotfl: The ladies turned up today so I got a good couple of hours to crochet

I wish my dog only had 2 seizures a year, she's had them since birth, she's 7 now, she had 6 on the Saturday then none on Sunday so thought they finished but had another 7 on the Monday, it takes her a couple of days to recover fully. Thankfully we have no problems giving her tablets she just scoffs them down, same when I tried cbd oil, golden paste and all manner of herbal remedies.

mrs-moneypenny

Have thrown myself into crafting so finished Granddaughters stocking, well the crossstitch part anyway, I need to sort fabric out to back and line it


Loving looking at everyone's work and thank you for the kind words. Xx

nmm

That's lovely Mrs MP, I'm sure it will be cherished