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  • betasam
    betasam Posts: 51 Forumite
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    Hello, I'd like to join in this year if that's OK?

    I have just spent an entire day sorting cross stitch patterns (4-ring binders reduced to £3 in Rymans on Saturday so they are now all stored nicely by type). I have put some cross stitch kits in the charity shop pile but am now dithering about whether I can let some of them go - I know I am SABLE even without them...

    Anyway, my initial list for this year is:
    Steam engine for friend's birthday in March
    Cut-through campervan for friend's birthday/retirement in April
    Birth sampler for niece 2 (just needs the back stitch wording added)
    Nameplate for great-niece 1's bedroom door
    Attempt to reduce WIPs to single figures...

    I would also like to complete the task of putting all of my threads on bobbins.

    I look forward to seeing your progress!

    Betasam


  • Drawingaline
    Drawingaline Posts: 2,988 Forumite
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    Nannyg my mum got me a magazine subscription last year for my birthday which I have really enjoyed. I bought a few of the kits in it and have completed one and started one, I did a couple of the free little ones, but I don't like the Aida they supply for those so didn't carry on with them. 
    Debt free Feb 2021 🎉
  • nmm
    nmm Posts: 2,413 Forumite
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    Happy new year everyone and welcome to all the new members, in case coxy wasn't clear enough WE LOVE PHOTOS :) Can't wait to see all the projects.
    Cross Stitch Cafe Member No1WIP: Cross Stitch: - Crochet:
  • betasam
    betasam Posts: 51 Forumite
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    First finish of 2024 -should have been finished as a card for Christmas 2023 but I decided not to rush it. One of a set of joyful festive wreaths by Lesley Teare produced as a kit by sewandso.
  • nannygladys
    nannygladys Posts: 3,235 Forumite
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    Drawingaline - if you really want to complete a special one , I would buy some linen or even weave from hobby craft or the net and use that. I have odd ones from years ago and I either don't like them, or not appropriate for what I want 🙂
    £1 a day 2025: £90.00/365 Xmas fund
  • Charly27
    Charly27 Posts: 642 Forumite
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    Welcome to everyone joining in this year. How exciting to have a first finish. Well done Betasam that’s going to be a lovely card if you can part with it. Happy stitching all. 
    ‘One of our greatest freedoms is how we react to things’ said Mole.Cross stitch cafe TaDa Enjoy the Little Things, WIP Love cats, ‘A Year in the Life of’ HSC July-December and The Seasons graphic sampler. Read 13/100 2025 all owned or borrowed.
    MORTGAGE FREE 17/01/25
  • Hi everyone :) I have finished my first diamond painting of the year - will post pictures once it has flattened out! And started on my first cross stitch project. I feel a bit like I am cheating as there is no backstitching to do, and it is a stamped kit! But it is nice to get back into the swing of things with an easier project, before I tackle all the french knots on my Great Wave bookmark! 

    Happy new year all. 
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  • betasam
    betasam Posts: 51 Forumite
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    I ordered the full great wave kit half price in the Hobbycraft black Friday sale and my Mum paid for it as part of my Christmas present. Perhaps I should add that to my 2024 list...

    I received the latest copy of Cross Stitcher yesterday so that has been read, dissected and the patterns I want to keep filed- it does mean another cover kit to stitch but I think it will get used as Mum has a friend who likes foxes and her birthday isn't until November!
  • @betasam I am doing a No Spend Year but if you could scan / photocopy the cozy bookshelf and fox card patterns for me I would be eternally grateful <3 
    ❀ total debt at LBM 01/2023: £47,178.76  ❀ debt at highest point: £51,062.14  
    ❁ currently - £24,950 ❁ emergency fund - £2,500 ❁ 
     ⚜  decluttering medals: ⭐️ || running total physical items in: 74 out: 160
    £1600+ made on vinted since 2023 ⚜
    we could get better, because we're not dead yet - frank turner.  ❧ 
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    twentytwentythriving.
  • Drawingaline
    Drawingaline Posts: 2,988 Forumite
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    betasam said:
    I ordered the full great wave kit half price in the Hobbycraft black Friday sale and my Mum paid for it as part of my Christmas present. Perhaps I should add that to my 2024 list...

    I received the latest copy of Cross Stitcher yesterday so that has been read, dissected and the patterns I want to keep filed- it does mean another cover kit to stitch but I think it will get used as Mum has a friend who likes foxes and her birthday isn't until November!
    I completed the Great Wave in 2022, finished it Xmas day of 2022. I cheated and used beads rather than french knots. I love it, and last year did the Cherry Blossom one that's in the same set. I have the final one with the Peacock's kitted up ready to go. Possibly this year.....
    Debt free Feb 2021 🎉
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