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Design Help Needed

My niece is getting married. My standard wedding piece is Emie Bishop's Celebrations. I like to cut a hole in the cente...
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posted by tjbentz
2 comments posted 18yrs posted by tjbentz

OT-Georgia Weather

Well, we are now under a Winter Storm Advisory. Expecting a mix of snow, sleet, and / or freezing rain with regular rai...
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posted by 1naomah
5 comments posted 18yrs posted by 1naomah

looking for embroidery patterns of spinning wheels

I have a friend who uses a computerized embroidery sewing machine. She wants to know if there are any free sites with d...
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posted by purplkat
6 comments posted 18yrs posted by purplkat

Stitching tools?

Hi all, In cleaning out some of dear-departed MIL's stuff, we ran across some tools, which we thought might be stitchin...
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posted by joan_erickson
42 comments posted 18yrs posted by joan_erickson

Best online store to buy floss?

Hi All! I was reading the thread about Walmart and the fact that they dont carry DMC anymore. Well, that got me to look...
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posted by jeitze
11 comments posted 18yrs posted by jeitze

556 Queen Stitches IR's Mother to Daughter

Ok, I resurrected a UFO. It is Indigo Rose's Mother to Daughter Sampler. I had put it aside when I got to area #14. It...
43 comments posted 18yrs
posted by qncityxstitcher
43 comments posted 18yrs posted by qncityxstitcher

Damp Sponge Technique

Does anyone use a damp sponge on their floss before stitching? Does it help the thread lay better and not twist so much?...
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posted by 1naomah
13 comments posted 18yrs posted by 1naomah

OT - if you need a laugh

Hey, y'all! During my afternoon surfing, I came across a wonderful verse - so if you need a laugh follow the link and e...
0 comments posted 18yrs
posted by willirk
0 comments posted 18yrs posted by willirk

For the Canadians among us

More of a knitting question - any one ever hear of Canadian slippers - a double yarn pattern/stitch or better know where...
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posted by cherylisaak
32 comments posted 18yrs posted by cherylisaak

OT: Cookie recipe

Sometime around Christmas, I saw a "basic cookie" recipe that used one dough to make twelve (I think) different kinds o...
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posted by lewmew
3 comments posted 18yrs posted by lewmew

OT---SPEW warning

Subject: The Chicken Business John the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (...
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posted by lzoltynospam
0 comments posted 18yrs posted by lzoltynospam

You know you are a stitcher when...

DH asks "What color would you call that", and I unflinchingly reply "Between DMC 502 and 503". Actually, it was between...
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posted by gillmurray1
2 comments posted 18yrs posted by gillmurray1

DoeEyes/Doris

Please email me. I tried to reply to you but it keeps getting returned. Thanks, Carolyn fredjoeyash at yahoo (dot) com
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posted by fredjoeyash
0 comments posted 18yrs posted by fredjoeyash

Crafting day

No school, but DH went in to work. Both kids are still in bed and I'm taking a break from my WIP (a UFO from my bag of...
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posted by cherylisaak
2 comments posted 18yrs posted by cherylisaak

aplique with Colored Ribbons

I do many works where i aplique colored ribbons of all sorts unto my work , sometimes as a decorative line sometimes as...
1 comments posted 18yrs
posted by mirjam
1 comments posted 18yrs posted by mirjam