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Thank you everyone for your comments. This site is so helpful. I agree that it is a personal thing, and whatever you do is right, but I am now desperate to try qsnaps - whatever they are I'll look it up on t'internet
Happy stitching

Drive

I've never tried framing them myself - don't you need to stretch it etc? Is it quite easy?

Hello and welcome from Bonny Scotland. I am also new, although I registered last year and can't remember username/password.
It is nice to chat with fellow stitchers.

We have had snow since before Christmas (Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland) and are just about fed up with it now. With temperatures of -10 and less, the roads are hazardous - nothing for it but to stay in and stitch

I love stitching, and would love to display more of my finished work. But I find it so expensive to get them framed.
My latest venture was 8 x 10" and cost £45 for single mount.
Does anyone else have this problem?

I have used a few and have found the DMC one to be more true to life. Hope this helps.

Ohhhhh!! I love stitching tigers - they look so good when they are finished.
Great find

I love the idea of using a hoop - but after 15years of stitching without one, I find it soooooo difficult!! I have spent so much money on wooden hoops, plastic hoops, big ones, small ones, but I just can't master it at all!!!!
Is it me?

Wow!! This looks a good one - something to get your teeth into.
I have just finished a birth sampler, and enjoyed doing it so much, I was sad when it was finished

I always use loop starts. Cut the thread twice as long as you need, pull out one strand and fold it double. Thread the two ends through the needle, stitch the first half of your cross leaving the loop at the back and then slide the needle through the loop, pull firm and then carry on stitching ...