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A Lovett's Loop
Anyone know this stitch? I'm, well bored is quite right, but close enough with my current projects and wanted to pick up a quickie and found a kit from Fern Ridge called One Bag Full - a wooly sheep...
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OT: Most Bizarre Boss ever - Long
OK folks, just wanted to stop in from the steamy 'burbs of DC. Hope all are having some happy stitching and a good summer. So, here's my whine - the most bizarre boss. I took a job about 10 days ago...
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Help with Anchor thresd in Canada
It is a bit of a long story. I am doing a piece of cross stitch for someone else; a kit she bought some years ago in Thailand. There are two greens, which need a lot of thread. In the kit there was...
 
Filet Cross stitch
I have stitched over 2o years and never heard of this stitch. I am starting a new project. An Eagle scout for my of it are filet stitches. Nothing says what it is. Something I probably know but by...
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Monpelier competition
Thanks to Lucille for the encouragement to enter Monpelier. I brought my "And a Forest Grew" sampler to the mansion yesterday. We'll see how it fares - pretty stiff competition, from what I saw! The...
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More Photos at Webshots
Hi Guys, My Needlework Group and I have made another {{{Quilt}}} for a member who has cancer. The center of the quilt is a lovely piece of needlework by my friend Valerie -- Mom of Payson my StepDog....
 
PING: Cheryl
Just a reminder that we will be up in your neck o' the woods late 01 October through 07 October (we leave on 08 to pick up DSis at Logan and then go to RI got the DNeph wedding) and we **MUST** meet...
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Taking some impieatin from Margaret
A few years back, she made a stitching bag from plastic canvas, using needlepoint stitches. Well, after being unhappy with trying to tote my portable Ott lamp, I'm borrowing her idea, scaling it down...
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Summer stitching.
I am back at my favorite stitching spot. At the cottage, a boat tied up at the dock. I have a bimini for shade. A radio playing gently in the background. A light breeze from the lake, with a slight...
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Home for now
Went to visit my mother on the Cape and left DD there for some one-on-one time with Grammy. Finished off her front bed by planting marigold assembly line style - my mother would point, I'd pass the...
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New pics on rctnp
If you're interested, I've added the rest of the pages for my cs baby book (the last 3) and the close-ups of the motifs of the crocheted blanket for DGD. The blanket's done, I just have to take the...
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O: Bug has arrived!!!
DSon Erick and DDil Irene have safely delivered "Bug", here after to be known as Evangeline Marie. 6 lb. 10 oz. and 19.5 inches. That makes 3 grandbabies for Nonnie to cuddle.
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Ellice -
What was the name of that Britcom? I accidentally deleted the message before I noted it. I should get the same station, and I'll check it out. Did anyone see "Choir" on BBC America last night? A...
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Re: Schooling (long)
IN the US, preschool is generally privately paid by parents, and can be any or all of the years ages 2-5. (This is different than daycare, which is childcare while parents work.) Preschool is most...
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Schooling.
It's too difficult to have a conversation with quiz postings, so I'm opening it up here. The question was"Not counting kindergarten, how many years does an American child attend school?" (from memory)...
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