I just found this board while ordering an email card.I just love MP designs. I
just received the bookmark. My DSs GF stitches and likes the designs so I share
with her when I am finished. I actually met Michael Powell at the stitchy show
in London.He was very nice. I have stitched many of the smaller houses and Dh
surprised me with the Garden Gate one,which is an ongoing project.

Welcome to the group! Fun group..wonderful patterns and an excellent designer!
please show your pics so we can all enjoy!
Hugs
Lori  from Connecticut

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Have a Great Day!
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Van: julia rees

Aan: michaelpowellcrossstitchart@...

Verzonden: woensdag 6 mei 2009 10:29

Onderwerp: Re: [michaelpowellcrossstitchart] New design

I started mine on Saturday.  Venice is not quite finished, still half of the outlining left to do, but I am going to buy a floor stand for my big frame, so am waiting on that before I finish Venice.  At the moment it is on a 28" roller frame, which is waayy too big to wrestle without some support.  My arms are too short:)

 

Julia

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From: Jo Jones <j0513_p@hotmail.com>
To: michaelpowellcrossstitchart@yahoogroups.co.uk
Sent: Wednesday, 6 May, 2009 3:00:23
Subject: [michaelpowellcrossstitchart] New design

Yay, my Tenby kit has just arrived

It is fabbie. Now I just need to get my Venice Triptych finished...

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From: julia rees

To: michaelpowellcrossstitchart@...

Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 11:09 AM

Subject: Re: [michaelpowellcrossstitchart] Tweek changer! LOL!

 

So glad that our designs inspire you to change things Joan :)  What do others do?  Do you just follow the chart or do you do your own things sometimes?

 

Julia

http://community.webshots.com/user/juliaruth

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From: Joan Pavlick <sewcutedollclothes@yahoo.com>
To: michaelpowellcrossstitchart@yahoogroups.co.uk
Sent: Wednesday, 16 September, 2009 20:58:41
Subject: Re: [michaelpowellcrossstitchart] Tweek changer! LOL! [2 Attachments]

 

Julia Count me in on the tweeking! The Monopoly board that I am stitching the whole color scheme is changed. I Dyed a special piece of Aida with the a tie dyed look and the floss is from different vendors SSS, Weeks, Caron, DMC - you guess it all overdyes! A small fortune dropped on those at the speciality shop (which I think a visit is needed, LOL!) but it will be worth it when done! See the attached pics.   Since no one wants to play game boards here I am going to frame it and have it covered with plexiglass in a matted frame and this way if they get the urge - be able to take down the gameboard and play.   And and added not Julia - if not for stitching a couple of Michael's smaller charts I think I would have had as much trouble I think with the community chest but didn't envisioned the whole stitches with the backstitching of his charts and had no problem! Hugs and Stitches - Joan Hand Dyed "Lil' Bits Of Fabbie"© and charts at Sapphire Stitching Now at Sapphire Stitching - COME AND CELEBRATE MY BIRTHDAY! The rest of the month with 25% OFF all including Sale items USE: CODE HB25 AT THE CHECKOUT! Shipping Now -$2.95 US Orders * $7.50 Iternational orders Sapphire Stitching Website Sapphire Stitching Yahoo Group Sapphire Stitching Swap-Bot Group Joan's Sew-b-it-Xstitching Blog Sapphire Stitching Etsy Shop --- On Wed, 9/16/09, julia rees <juliaruth71@ yahoo.com> wrote: From: julia rees <juliaruth71@ yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [michaelpowellcross stitchart] Darned computers To: michaelpowellcrosss titchart@ yahoogroups. co.uk Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 8:55 AM   I've done that too!   I'm glad you are enjoying your Villages.  They are lovely aren't they! I just spent a complete hour on your blog, and links from it.  Thank you :)  I laughed at your Totally useless SAL.  I might join you.  It's got to be a better say of containing orts than having them all over hte furniture and trailing off my clothes!   I'm currently working on two small models for Mike, Tenby for myself, and the Biggie Bicornue cushion from Tam's Creations.  Trouble is, I don't think that Tam will rcognise it by the time I have finished with it.  I changed the colours, stitched the background to match, tweaked some of the design that I didn't think worked too well, frogged it and tweaked it again.  And again.  What is it with me, I cannot leave a design alone!  Working as a designer has given me the confidence to do that, having discovered that it is all made up anyway!!   Anyone else out there?   Julia http://community. webshots. com/user/ juliaruth From: yoyo_9203 <yoyo_9203@yahoo. com> To: michaelpowellcrosss titchart@ yahoogroups. co.uk Sent: Tuesday, 15 September, 2009 20:06:25 Subject: [michaelpowellcross stitchart] Darned computers   I was wondering why this group was so quiet....just found out I had the notify me of posts gizmo set wrong. I've glanced back at the messages and congratulate your finishes and progress and will do better now that I have it set to daily digest. Hope you are all stitching along. I finished my second page of English Village 1 this morning, pictures will follow soon. I'm 1/3 done, pretty exciting for me. Yoyo My Blog (http://www.dragonmy needle.blogspot. com/), home of the Totally Useless SAL, come on over and join the fun. My Photo Albums (http://gallery. me.com/spalady20 3#gallery)

Hi Julia,

I can't believe you spent an hour on my blog, girl you have got to join the
Totally Useless SAL if you have that much time to spare, ha ha ha ha ha.

I was going to put my photo of English Village in the photo album but the darn
uploader is messing me around again.  I have never been able to get the new
uploader to accept photos from my Mac and now it's telling me the "basic
uploader" is missing altogether.  Guess I'll be spending some time in the Yahoo
Help Pages.  But I am going to blog this photo today, so I hope you bookmarked
my blog.

Tweaking, hmmmmmm. I have very little imagination of my own, that's why I
purchase needlework designed by others.  I have a designer friend who thinks I'm
stone crazy...she can not understand wanting to stitch something someone else
designed (and I don't think she ever will). I tell her, "If I am 'unable' to
design it myself, why not?" But she just does not get it.  But this means I
don't tweak designs very often.  I do think when I chose how to display a
needlework design (the finish of it), that is adding my own touch to the
designer's work and I guess I'm just happy with that.

I also believe that needlework is an "art" and if I liked this piece of art
enough to buy it then I feel I should display it in it's original form.  I
wouldn't retouch an original oil if I brought that home, which I do frequently,
and I do paint, but that doesn't mean I'm going to add my strokes to somebody
else's.  But, on the other hand, needlework is also an expression of "my art" so
I'm not married to this 'don't tweak it' philosophy and will play with color
occasionally, but rarely with the actual design.

Mostly I just live in total awe of people like Michael Powell and Teresa
Wentzler who are able to share their wonderful imagination with a design-blind
clutz like myself.

Yoyo

My Blog (http://www.dragonmy needle.blogspot. com/), home of the Totally Useless
SAL, come on over and join the fun.

My Photo Albums (http://gallery. me.com/spalady203#gallery)



--- In michaelpowellcrossstitchart@..., julia rees
<juliaruth71@...> wrote:
>
> I've done that too!
>
> I'm glad you are enjoying your Villages.  They are lovely aren't they!
> I just spent a complete hour on your blog, and links from it.  Thank you :)  I
laughed at your Totally useless SAL.  I might join you.  It's got to be a better
say of containing orts than having them all over hte furniture and trailing off
my clothes!
>

I was wondering why this group was so quiet....just found out I had the notify
me of posts gizmo set wrong.  I've glanced back at the messages and congratulate
your finishes and progress and will do better now that I have it set to daily
digest.  Hope you are all stitching along.  I finished my second page of English
Village 1 this morning, pictures will follow soon.  I'm 1/3 done, pretty
exciting  for me.

Yoyo

My Blog (http://www.dragonmyneedle.blogspot.com/), home of the Totally Useless
SAL, come on over and join the fun.

My Photo Albums (http://gallery.me.com/spalady203#gallery)

Do you know if it is possible to purchase Michael Powell charts alone without
buying the whole kit?  I have so many threads and loads of Aida that buying more
seems silly.  However, I just love the little houses and want to get stitching
them NOW!! :)

I put a pic of my two latest finishes in my album. It is the Mini Greek Island
1, which had become a UFO. And then the bug was there and in a week time I
finished Mini Misty Hill Town. For the first time I was short in threads, never
happened before in Michael Powell kits. Fortunately they were in my Anchor
threads box, so I could finish the design without delay. I want to stich another
mini, didn't decide which one, it may be a Venice one or a Lighthouse one.
Have a nice and stitchy day!
Edith

Hi
things seem to be a little quiet lately, is everyone on holiday?

We are back from the Otways, retrieved the 2 cats from the cattery, and I love
it when they are so loving, I hope they now appreciate the good things in life.

I was hoping for wet and icky weather, but true to form it was glorious.  Sunny
and not at all windy. Our routine was set so that we did touristy and holdiay
stuff in the morning and came back to our cottage to rest up, so  I did get
Tenby started, the light was so bright on our veranda, I had to move inside to
work with the pale colours........

Since being back home and back at work, the momentum has slipped a bit, of heck
who am I kidding, it has stopped.  Being deepest darkest Winter there isn't any
light to work with in the evening, and artificial light doesn't work.  Ask me
how I know...

cheers

Bernie

Oh Bernie, I'm green with envy!!  Just done a Google search on the Otways and
you are in for a fabulous vacation.  But you already knew that!!  Enjoy every
moment of it and don't give a thought to me sweltering away 'up here' in
Canada!!

Give us a full report when you get back,
Susan W.

--- In michaelpowellcrossstitchart@..., "bersam59" <bersam59@...>
wrote:
>
> Finally the time has come.
>
> Monday we set off for our week long holiday to the Otway Ranges. Tenby harbour
has been hemmed, the centre stitch marked, and all safely packed, along with the
knitting bag, loaded ipod, camera and bag of books.
>
> It has been some time since we have had a proper holiday, not rushing from one
family crisis to the next, this break has been planned with military precision.
The cats have been booked into the cattery, (please don't mention this out loud
in their presence), the three corgis have their bags packed.  The youngest, of
course, keeps unpacking his.
>
> I always take far too much "stuff", but I am hoping for a mostly wet week, so
I can relax and stitch, knit or read.  With a few dry breaks to take the dogs to
the beach.
>
> Until next week
>
> cheerio
>
> Bernie
>
> P.S.  It took a lot of willpower to keep the Tenby kit until this break, it
has been burning a hole in the "to-do" pile for weeks
>