Cross Stitch and Craft Cafe 2025 - come in, sit down and join us!

Coxy11

Hi all,

Lovely finish @Charly27 and hope you managed to find a hoop to frame it in. Did you gift it straightaway or is it for Christmas?

I haven't done much since I last posted. Did buy a beautiful handmade patchwork quilt in a CS for £9.99 when I was away in Suffolk a few weeks ago. Have put it in the conservatory on our Lloyd Loom chair until I decide what to do with it. Could not make it for that price (and don't have the skills).

Is anyone up for doing a Christmas Card Exchange this year? @Auti has messaged me about it, so I said I'd ask. I'm happy to co-ordinate again. Let me know by end of October so I can sort who is sending to who.

Hope everyone is doing okay
Coxy

daisy_1571

I'm in please coxy

Dxxx

Auti

Yes please

Teaparty_mum

Popping in to say hello as I’ve not been here for a while. Sadly I lost my brave mum back in march and I just couldn’t face finishing off the patchwork that I started when my mum was ill.
Ive started doing cross stitch and I’m enjoying it. I’m not great at it but it’s relaxing. 

Auti

Hello Teaparty_mum - cross stitch is fun and neither am I very good at it but I find it very fun. Though at the moment I am busy knitting a jacket for the chillier months then I will be back to the stitching - only have one sleeve and the borders to knit.

nmm

Hi all, sorry for my absence lots has happened since my last post, i will catch up properly soon. Just letting you know i'm still alive haha, did someone mention card exchange, yes please i'm in

Teaparty_mum

I’m actually loving doing it, I’m using a printed canvas at the moment as I’m not brave enough to do it without a picture to follow 

Charly27

Hello everyone. Can I firstly say so sorry to hear about your loss @Teapartymum. Go gently with yourself as your world shifts to encompass your grief.
Glad you’re finding cross stitch therapeutic. I gifted love cats straight away @Coxy11 as it was so late anyway! Now just started next project which is a four seasons one for a friend. I have marked the grid with dressmaker pencil this time. So will let you know how it works out 🤞🏻Will let you know about CCE. 

nmm

Right where to start, a little while back my dad died, we were not close so i'm ok, then a week later his brother died, then a few weeks later my mum's partner of 25 years died. Lots of loss in a short space of time i went to the last funeral to support my mum. We've also had a holiday in LLandudno and just been working alot. Everything is settling back down now, thankfully.

I finished the birth sampler first picture before babs, 2nd finished




I will post the bollard toppers in the next post

nmm

The bollard toppers were a huge success, unfortunately some mindless kids destroyed quite a few but the ladies who make them have already starting repairing them, ready for next year. This is a video on FB for those that can view it https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1FgMDYUTZU/