Cross Stitchers - who are your favourite designers?

[dragonstitcher]

Me? I'm a huge Teresa Wentzler fan.

I remember you saying Lucykate, back in the depths of last year when I joined MN! Newton kits and such like wasn;t it???

Yes, definitely not a designer to pick if you hate backstitch!!

this was the first cross-stitch kit I did - nothing like starting out modestly I find

We ought to have a chart swop circle really....

(that last was to WWB btw - took me ages to find a link to the sheep picture)

miaou, did you stitch that!, you are braver than me

i designed, didn't stitch. always used to claim my back was hurting and get someone else to do it for me. we had a team of outworkers paid to do all the stitching

Ohh lucykate, thats a job I would love!

Bloody hell ... that's one heck of a challenge for a first chart!

I think my first project was a daft little flower that dh bought me ... it didn't satisfy, so the next thing I did was Waterhouse's My Sweet Rose. Which I made a real hash of, but it taught me how to cross-stitch!

i work for myself now, if anyone is interested, i'll have a pimms later and get brave enough to post my blog site so you can see what i've been working on

would love to see

I'd like to see them too.

Come on, get that Pimms down your neck ...

Where did she go???

Too much Pimms, maybe

lol, i haven't even had my tea yet!

i don't really want to post it here, do you have an email address ot 'cat' (i haven't paid my fiver ) and i can send you a link?

its not so much cross stitch nowadays, its more crafty items, and soft toys for kits etc.

Lucykate. Can you link to some of your designs on another site if you don't want to post your blog on here? Would love to see some of them.

here is a design I did. uk.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/mumsnetcrafters-share/photos/view/484e?b=7 It is a sepia photo of my grandmother that I stiched for my mum a few years ago.

Password if needed...mumsnetter/netters

Well, I would love to see it. My email is sewingmad [email protected] (take out the extra space but keep lines)

oh that didn;t work did it?? sewing mad [email protected]

I stitched just one of those sheep for an RR and it was horrendous! You are very brave to do the whole darn thing, Miaou! I love the stained glass idea, not so keen on stitching flowers, although I love the iris.

I stitched quite a few Newtons for a baby afghan and yes, the backstitch was awful.

I love the owl in flight that WigWamBam mentioned. Currently doing an Owl/wildlife type picture. Been doing it about 12 months now - about 2/3rds of the way through it.

Am I able to order the 'owl in flight' off the website.

Thanks