Anyone Into Cross Stitching?

*Louise*

jintyb wrote: »

Hi everyone, sorry I've been off the board for a few days, I've not been very well and ended up in hospital! Home now, fighting fit so will get the sewing out today!
Ruth - honey, what a stash - that is unbelievable!! You're a rascal!

Louise - that mermaid is beautiful, so lovely!

Welcome to the new folks, great to have you along! Have a lovely day everyone!

Thought you had gone quiet - sorry to hear that, but glad to hear you're feeling better xx

sweetcarer

As promised a picture of my wedding sampler. It is all streached ready to go into frame. It is taken from cross stitcher magazine issue 72. I found this issue with help of people on this and another cross stitch board so thank you to all. It is cream fabric, using cream and white threads with some beads. Thank you all for helping me get my stitching mojo back after a fire where I lost this (done for my 5th wedding anniversery - now redone for my 15th). I have even started doing the small kits from magazines to get me going too. I have a copy of MrsMacs golden earth, so that is on my list to do. I am going to stay with my parents in law in America at end of year - so hear I can buy threads cheaper there as it involves 75 different colours. Kind wishes to all and thank you.

sweetcarer

sweetcarer

I have something to say to you all and I am not sure how to do it so I will just say it.

I lost my husband the one with the name on the cross stitch wedding sampler. I redone it in his memory for our 15th. I have also done another one for my new huband (well 2 years). The new one was done in secret at same time as other one. I don't know what to do with the original one as I half thought it would be nice to do in replace of one lost in fire.

I just didn't want to decive anyone. I attach pic of the new one - slightly different material colour. Also made it more personal as we were married by the side of Loch Lomond in a handfasting cermony.


Kind wishes

sweetcarer

*Louise*

^^Why are you apologising? (Did I miss something?)

I am sorry to hear of your loss, and I think it was lovely to re do the sampler in his memory.

And now a third version- you must really like that design it is a lovely one I must say.

Mountain_Ash

Evening, folks.

Well, I will apologise now, cos I've been lurking rather than posting, but I do have a couple of bits to show for my time.

This is the card that I did for my Dad's birthday - he's keen on the Beatles, but according to Mum, he didn't realise what it was and she had to tell him. The chart comes from World of Cross Stitching - issue 150.

http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt268/rowantanner/YellowSubBirthdayCard-July2009.jpg

This next is the pheasant, which is my current WIP (Cross Stitch Gold - issue 62) - you'll see that it is coming on. I just need to finish the wing and then I can start on the border.

http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt268/rowantanner/WIP-Pheasant-9Aug2009.jpg

And this last is the piece that I did last night and this morning. It is going to be a Xmas gift tag for my littlest niece. According to the magazine (World of Cross Stitching - issue 145), each letter in this Penguin ABC should take one evening. Well, I can only assume that they mean if you have somebody else around to cook your dinner, wash the pots etc! I was up till gone 11pm doing the cross stitching and then did the back stitching this morning while the washing was on.

http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt268/rowantanner/XmasGiftTagA-Aug2009.jpg

My problem with this is the fabric wastage. I want to do 6 more of these and the instructions say to use a piece of fabric 6" x 6" for each letter. That would be fine if I was doing aperture cards and needed the extra round the edge, but I plan to cut it down quite tight, fray the edge and stick it on a piece of Christmas green card. I have a piece of Aida approx 15" x 15" which, if I followed the instructions to the letter, I would get 4 more letters out of. Do you reckon it would work if I did the first letter straight onto the whole piece and then worked out distances from there? That way, I might get all 6 letters out of the one piece of Aida.

And finally, a moan. I would really like to do the Joan Elliott Renaissance ladies from Cross Stitch Collection (issues 143, 145 and 147), but there is no way that I am going to pay £30 odd a piece for the kits. I have tried to buy the mags on ebay, but every time someone bids silly money that I can't justify paying for them. Does anyone else have this sort of problem?

I have been looking at all the completed UFOs that people have done and everyone's WIP, and they all look great. I only wish that there were more hours in the day so that I could get on with mine.

Regards to all,
Ro

ocemeer

You are all bad bad people encouraging people to browse at all the lovel kits.
Have just bid on and won the 'Sea Holly' chart from the John Clayton flower panels series, just to add the the huge pile of x-stitch, embroidery, and sewing I am suppose to be doing.
Oh well it is a chart i really really want and reasonablly MSE as it had been used so got the chart only which should work out alot cheaper once I know what threads I need to get.

On the subject of threads, decided a big box does not quite work for me so was thinking a large lever arch file with the plastic seperator thingies (what are they called so I can search for them please, having a really dizzy moment) and little money bags of thread in my wee current project box (i keep all the threads the pattern scissors and other bits in a little box to help keep me on track and not distracted). Does this sound a practical method to all you experinced stitchers?

MRSMCAWBER

Hi there

I have posted pics a while ago of how I keep my threads in numerical order-Is this what you mean :-

The inserts are for collectors of cards, medals, badges etc

and then when Im doing a design I keep each thread in a bank bag with the number and symbol on -much better than those thread sorters

i have been doing this for years and it makes things soooooooo easy

Ok -Im back ...have just pulled this up -so you have somewhere to start looking -hope it helps
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290330875279

jintyb

sweetcarer wrote: »

I have something to say to you all and I am not sure how to do it so I will just say it.

I lost my husband the one with the name on the cross stitch wedding sampler. I redone it in his memory for our 15th. I have also done another one for my new huband (well 2 years). The new one was done in secret at same time as other one. I don't know what to do with the original one as I half thought it would be nice to do in replace of one lost in fire.

I just didn't want to decive anyone. I attach pic of the new one - slightly different material colour. Also made it more personal as we were married by the side of Loch Lomond in a handfasting cermony.

No need to apologise - I remember how upset you were when you lost that sampler - I realise now why you wanted to redo it.
I wish you all joy and happiness! :j

PS Loch Lomond is a wonderful setting for a wedding, but whats a handfasting ceremony? Sounds interesting!

sweetcarer

Hello All

This is how our handfasting went.

Close friends and family gather in a circle at the site outdoors by the edge of Loch Lomond in a small wooded area.

My husband to be waits for me to come into the circle. The "celebrant"(for want of a better word) tells everyone what is happening and about me and my husband. We light candles for the earth, wind, fire and water. Each candle coming from a member of the circle (my mum, sister, aunt and friend). We exchange vows that we have written ourselves. We exchange rings. Then a ban is passed to us from a male member of the circle (my brother). This was a length of tartan. This is fastenend around our wrists - hand fasted. This is where we get the modern term to tie the knot. We also jump over a beesom (like a broomstick). We finally walk around the circle.

The handfast is kept on as long as you want, we wore ours until we went to bed (so all during reception - very difficult to eat with one hand tied lol).

It is a traditional Scottish wedding cermony. It is not legal so we did the registery office bit on our own before hand. But it was very nice as this was the second time for both of us and yes it is a beautiful area to get married in - my mother is originally from Loch Lomond (my grand mother still stays there).

Thank you for your kind words - I thought I best let you know a little background to me to make it easier when I talk.

Kind wishes to all and happy stitching.

sweetcarer

shelly

Oh blimey!
I have received 3 out of the 4 kits I won on e-bay so have just checked them over to make sure everything is included.
The Noah's Ark material is evenweave! I have never stitched on it before and now I have seen it in the flesh (so to speak) its quite different from aida which is all I have ever stitched on.
I'll give it a go though and change to aida only if I really can't get on with the evenweave.

Also another new thing for me in the Noah's Ark kit and the pixie/fairy kit is coloured charts. I have only ever used black and white charts (which I photocopy and colour in as I go) but the NA has coloured symbols and the pixie/fairy chart is actually blocks of colour like it has been coloured in.
Must admit at first glance they look much easier to follow than just a black and white chart.