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Hi everyone,

Slightly peculiar design request. I want to do a cross stitch as a wedding present for my brother and his fiance. They met through church bell ringing and would love something that features church bells. I haven't come across anything like this and wondered whether anyone knows of such a design?

Many thanks

x

I do hope you manage to locate one, and if you do, please share the info if you can. I too, ring in a church handbell choir and would love to find something like that to stitch

Like this one?

http://www.123stitch.com/cgi-perl/itemd ... =K080-0459" target="_blank

Or these

http://www.yiotas-xstitch.com/cross-sti ... ding-bells" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

http://www.cross-stitch-centre.co.uk/ac ... titch.html" target="_blank" target="_blank

http://www.mariadiazdesigns.com/mdd/shop.php?showid=197" target="_blank

http://www.crosstitch.com/search?f=wbl06" target="_blank

http://www.free-cross-stitch-pattern.co ... ance31.php" target="_blank

maybe you could get a photograph of some church bells and ask skitzzzz to chart something? I googled "church bells cross stitch" and didn't see diddly squat. though the wedding bell patterns are very pretty and would probably be very nice for a wedding gift themselves.

Carole

I did a wee bit of googling and came up with this link for handbell designs--it's not exactly what I was hoping to find but it does actually have designs that feature handbells

http://www.handbellservices.com/cross-s ... ll-circle/

There are a couple of individual designs at the bottom of that page too

Many thanks for the suggestions. It's not a traditional "wedding bells" design I'm looking for though as that's really not my brother and his fiance's style. It is actually a chart of church bells as they look in the tower - sort of like this

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=church ... r:13,s:133" target="_blank

(hoping that link works)

I've asked them if they have a photo though as did think of skitzzzz as an option when I couldn't find anything already charted.

I was going to suggest Could you not go in to the tower where they ring and take a pic of them holding the ropes Or even go in to there belfry and take a pic

sure by all means keep me in mind
hope you find an image your looking for