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Not yet, but I've got two orders in the post......
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YES!
Two gridding pens. A water soluable white one to use on some black fabric I have and a lilac air erasable ( I have a blue water erasable one to try as well).
I can't wait to try gridding now!
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Do let us know how you get on with them, especially the one for dark fabrics!
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Sheila has kindly sent me a knitting magazine, it's fabulous :dance: :dance:
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:dance: :dance: I just checked our mailbox and have received some gorgeous silk threads, to try out, from Mabel!! Thank you so much!! :hug:

I'm sitting with them on my lap, looking at all my chart collections mumbling and repeating "my precious!!" :shock:
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Glad they arrived safely, and that you like them -- dare I admit that they're not all silks :-)?

The postie brought me my Sew & So order today -- now all i have to do is impatiently wait for the one coming from America!
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Got a nice DMC sewing box thing with 40 flosses in the post today. Its pretty
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Mabel Figworthy wrote:Do let us know how you get on with them, especially the one for dark fabrics!
I have got a white pencil fabric marker and it was fab for gridding on Navy aida for one of my Xmas stockings :D
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I just received my Cath Kidston book: Stitch, which I got for subscribing to Cross Stitcher. I have to say am glad it came 'free' with a subscription. Not sure about the projects in them, I have to gain a bit more confidence and a sewing machine it seems!

And I have received my 2 Charlie's Ark kits I bought from Ebay together for £12.
I've got the Special Delivery Birth Sampler and the Charlie's Falling Star.
I will make the falling star for my nephew and the birth sampler for my best friend who's pregnant!
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I just got the pattern book "Love Kills Slowly" by Ed Hardy. It has 30 patterns based on some of his tattoos, and they are SO cool!
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I got my copy of Cross stitch collection. And erm...I think they made a mistake as I now have two copies of it :P
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what a nice mistake Angel! Hope there's some lovely charts in it :)
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hehe well I'm not complaining about it ^_^ One day I'm going to get my future subbie without any mistakes, but I'd rather have two of the same one than have to ring up five times to get one :P

There are some lovely designs. The iris fairy by joan elliot a wolf by pollyanna pickering, some baby stuff, magnolia flowers from Angela Poole, the puppy love sampler to go with last months cat one, a wonderful artical on hoops and frames and a beautiful floral ABC.

I'm happy to send it on to someone who wants it. I did open it, but only to see if they were the same magazine or not. And if someone wants to trade that's fantastic. I'm always happy to get new stash, either cross stitching or knitting (I really want to learn to knit, but I can only make bunnies).
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I've pm'd you :D
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:dance: :dance: DMC Dimensions Fall Fairy kit arrived as well as my complete set of DMC threads and some silk ones I bought.

Now have to spend a few evening winding them onto bobbins :(
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I received my 22ct & 25ct fabrics for 2 HAED charts I've been slowly kitting up.

1 white gridding pencil for dark fabrics and the blue marker that was mentioned on here as well.

And I finally purchased #8 & #12 perle threads along with some glisten gloss blending threads and my very first silk thread! I can't wait to play around with them!! I do believe the issue for me with the satin floss was using it on aida. I forgot how soft evenweave is. I believe I have some dark evenweave fabric that I'm going to give the satin another try with.

*forgive me if I posted this earlier in the week when the items first arrived...I thought it was on another board, but now I'm wondering...
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Today the postman brought me some AOY charts, which Vanessa sent me. :D
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I think the pigeons have been fed something.I received some lovely daffodil charts and yellow threads from Rosemary, they were only posted on Friday :shock: Thanks Rosemary :wub: :hug:
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Lisa wrote:I think the pigeons have been fed something.I received some lovely daffodil charts and yellow threads from Rosemary, they were only posted on Friday :shock: Thanks Rosemary :wub: :hug:
Wow it has arrived quickly, hope you like them, posted at 12.30 in our little post office, in our out of the way town. The post from Spain to UK is excellent but it is not so good in reverse.

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Oooh lovely stash!!
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