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Oh, that sounds amazing. I wish I would have known earlier.
I'm only 15 Mon away from Ely but my week will be pretty busy.

Is it still on next Saturday?

I went a bit crazy and bought a lot of silk threads. I just love silks. Classic Colorworks - the reads are for Northern Expressions Needlework's Shades of Red and I just loved the teal one. https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7296/16331833858_b9fd83a612.jpg I bought a bunch of silks from Thread Pickerz. ...

Thanks for your advice, but these are just normal short skeins.
I want to order bigger hanks to have enough to stitch a big sampler with the same dye lot and most likely it should also be cheaper buying a bigger amount.

I would like to order some Gloriana silk hanks but can't find a shop selling them. Can anybody help me with this? Something in the EU would be preferred but I do talk any advice

Thanks

Hey,
I want to buy some Gloriana silks for a project and can't find them anywhere in the UK except at Sew and So, where they are very expensive.
Are there any other shops selling them here?

Lovely work. What a nice project.

Yeah, I have done that with my HAED.
But I'm talking about samplers here. You have to start and stop threads neatly all the time. And when I finish a thread I have to immediately secure it.

I'm trying to stitch 1 over 1 on 28ct evenweave. I have no problem starting a thread as I use an away knot and stitch over the thread. When I end a thread I would normally go underneath a few stitches on the back. But there is no space under the over one stitches at all. How do you end threads in th...

I'm just look ing for a #12 pearl over-dyed thread. Valdani has a very nice selection of these. Do you know any other companies? I bought some fromm Week Dye Works, but they only have like 22 colours. I checked out the links on the website, which must have not been updated in years. Not one of them ...

I'm looking for a source of Valdani cotton pearl #12 threads in the UK. Sew and So only keeps the stranded cottons.

What a fantastic project. Well done!

Beautiful new butterfly. You are doing so well. This is the one Chatelaine design I want to do too, but the list of threads is just sooooo long and expensive...

This is just too pretty

Somehow I can't figure out how to sign up for a Chatelaine class. Can anybody help mw with this?

I'm doing the Twisted Band Sampler by Northern Expression Needlework at the moment, and I so love learning and stitching all these speciality stitches that I'm looking for other samplers which are similar.
Any recommendations? Which samplers do you love?

I'm still on it, still loving it. I will definitely do more samplers with other stitches in the future. https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3935/15337539489_f3aa8c9eee.jpg Band number 6 is my new favourite. It's such a joy to stitch. I absolutely love learning all these stitches :) https://farm6.staticfl...

I own a chart by this designer. These colourful I.ages are just to fascinating. Great start!

Well done. Congratulations!

Is it actual worth going? I checked on the exhibitors and they mainly seem to be knitting ones...

Speciality for me means just nor cross stitch. Here you can see, Smyrna Cross, Rice, Eyelet, Diagonal Herringbone, Scallop and Ray stitches. The one I'm working on at the moment is a Diamond Four-Sided Stitch over 4 threads. It's fun to figure out how to do these different stitches and they look pre...