Anyone Into Cross Stitching?

chillin_nutta

That card is absolutely beautiful... i'd be delighted to receive that.

Getting on with the cross stitching, i forgot how content i am doing it hence not eating much woohoo - great for the diet Anyone else find this??

emmy x

jintyb

chillin_nutta wrote: »

That card is absolutely beautiful... i'd be delighted to receive that.

Getting on with the cross stitching, i forgot how content i am doing it hence not eating much woohoo - great for the diet Anyone else find this??

emmy x

Yes, I find that too! I get so engrossed, I dont think about nibbling! Too early to see results tho! Stitching also helped me give up smoking too - so its all good!

Have a happy day !

bookadict

chillin_nutta wrote: »

That card is absolutely beautiful... i'd be delighted to receive that.

Getting on with the cross stitching, i forgot how content i am doing it hence not eating much woohoo - great for the diet Anyone else find this??

emmy x

Hi Emmy,

I'm the same. Also my biggest fear is that after nibbling I might get greasy marks on the aida - even my hands have been washed before hand.

In the past year cross stitch has helped me lose just under 2 stone. Now the nights are lighter for longer, I'll be doing a couple of hours a night - less nibbiling and a great way to finish the UFO's!!!:rotfl:

jintyb

bookadict wrote: »

Hi Emmy,

I'm the same. Also my biggest fear is that after nibbling I might get greasy marks on the aida - even my hands have been washed before hand.

In the past year cross stitch has helped me lose just under 2 stone. Now the nights are lighter for longer, I'll be doing a couple of hours a night - less nibbiling and a great way to finish the UFO's!!!:rotfl:

Congrats on the great weight loss - I hope I can manage the same , that would be great!
Like you, Im afraid to get marks on the fabric!

shelly

I'm like you ladies too, find stitching stops me eating. I wash my hands before I start and sometimes if its warm and they feel clammy I'll go wash them again.
The sitting hunched over doesn't do my back and/or shoulders much good though

We moved a couple of years ago and I have found out that I can even stitch in the evening when its dark. We have spots in the ceiling and there is one above me but just far enough forward so as not to cast a shadow.

maria_and_the_imps

i have finished my poem and also found a cross stich in teh cupboard that i did when my little girl was a baby, will post pictures later
i have now started my advent calendars and need to make 3 so that is 72 pockets i need to make!!!! i have already done 5 so only 67 to go lol
so im glad i started now lol
im taking a break from my flower faries as it was driving me mad
hope everyone elses projects are coming along ok
mountain ash i love your card and unlike everyone else i eat whilst sewing, which i know is really bad but i just cant help myself lol
xxx

jintyb

maria_and_the_imps wrote: »

i have finished my poem and also found a cross stich in teh cupboard that i did when my little girl was a baby, will post pictures later
i have now started my advent calendars and need to make 3 so that is 72 pockets i need to make!!!! i have already done 5 so only 67 to go lol
so im glad i started now lol
im taking a break from my flower faries as it was driving me mad
hope everyone elses projects are coming along ok
mountain ash i love your card and unlike everyone else i eat whilst sewing, which i know is really bad but i just cant help myself lol
xxx

Well done on finishing! That sounds like a major project with the advent calendars - worth it in the end though. Im just about to get my sewing out and get on with it. Im dying to get it finished - my cottage and garden - as Ive got loads of stuff "in the queue" ( Will just have a wee cuppa and a biccie first, heh, heh):D

MRSMCAWBER

Hi all

Im another one who finds that x stitching keeps my head out of the fridge :T.... I keep a big bottle of fizzy water at my side as sometimes I get so carried away I forget to get up and get a drink although when hubbies in its great as I get cups of tea on tap:rotfl:
Im still working on mums "in her garden" picture and as we have now decided to go home for xmas I HAVE to get it done..I will get a frame and frame it when I get there :rolleyes:
Here are a few more of my finished projects...the indians are in a cupboard at the moment as my tastes have changed ..I still love them and can't imaging getting rid of them as they were the first 2 I did..its just "where to put them?"

Hubby got me this kit as an anniversary pressie -it needs restretching but Im waiting until I go home and can get some nonreflective glass like the indians have as I think they look much better;)



and this was hubbies first attempt on evenweave :T

I have quite a few kits/charts in a queue waiting to get done..so I have banned myself from buying anymore :A:rotfl:..I love seeing what everyone else is doing but its soooooo tempting

chillin_nutta

Yeah i'm like the others - I don't want to mark my material lol

I'm deff going to try and stick with my stitching for my health mainly although hubby would prob disagree, and say i need to stop for the health of his pocket lol.

Can anyone point me in the direction of some really girly girl fairy cross stitch kits... any help would be fab...

thanks

emmy x

Stephb1986_2

Hi everyone, I started cross stitching a while ago but not bothered for ages! I've just bought 18 cross stitching kits off ebay they should come tomorrow I'm dead excited. Do any of you use the hoops or just do it free hand?

I know where to come if I need any help

Steph xx