Some friends came over this past weekend for a cook-out. I happened to have my floor stand out in the livingroom with the latest WIP clamped to it. My friend, Karen, beckoned to her husband, flipped the project over showing him the back and the front, and said something to the effect of, "That's...

All right, you're all really getting on my nerves. Would you please tell me how asking if there's anything special I should do to prevent food stains translates into "treating embroidery as if it will disintigrate with the first puff of air"???? All I was asking for was a little advice, not...

I was leafing through an old The Needleworker and they have a one pager on it with the "variation" :0 Contact me off line! Cheryl

Hi, newbie here. I live in UK and enjoy crewel work. Some 20 years ago I did a lovely bit of work. The design was Elizabethan tree of life. I lost the pattern on one of my many house moves and would love to do it again. Does anyone here have the pattern I could buy, or know of a website where I...

I'm having a devil of a time finding anybody online that sells Susan Bates embroidery hoops where I can buy all of the available sizes and also specify the color of hoop I receive. I know it sounds picky, but I can't stand the thought of staring at a lime green, blaze orange, or neon yellow hoop...

I just got my Mountmellick Embroidery book by Yvette Stanton and Prue Scott and can only say... wow! It is truly pushing me to drop whatever I'm stitching and start a project from the book. Diagrams and instructions seem clear and easy to understand - even though I'm not well versed in...

55 UNIQUE SEWING AND CRAFT SECRETS Save Time and $$$ Copyright Knowledge Box Publications 1. To Open that Stuck Zipper: Rub the teeth with a bar of soap or spray with shaving cream. 2. An Ideal Pin Cushion: Use a bar of soap. Makes sewing easier and needle just slides through hard material.

I guess you only read some posts. I have said many times that I am repeatedly calling her, and will post a soon as I make contact Gillian Florida "Mirjam Bruck-Cohen" wrote in message ... Please if amnyone heard from Lucille let me...

Per CNN, 4 new variants on the MyDoom virus have surfaced in the last 24 hours. Your anti-virus software may not catch these. Reminder: Don't download/open anything that you are not 100% sure of what it is and who it came from. If you have any doubts, ask the sender. -- Finished 7/18/04 -- 6...

I have a picture I want to have turned into needlepoint or cross stitch pattern -- but I do not want to even think of doing this myself with software. I'm looking for a reasonable, reputable company (internet or otherwise) who can do such. Anyone have any experience with any companies?

I am currently working a counted canvas chart and the directions are making me crazy. (My sig is out of date, so don't look there.) I can figure out what and where to stitch easily enough, but the copyediting is atrocious! Once and for all, PLURALS DO NOT NEED APOSTROPHES! To all designers: I...

"Lucretia Borgia" wrote in message ... I was just looking at the weather and hope you Floridians are well battened down - Frances looks a bitch. I shall be thinking of you and hoping she takes off to sea, or swerves...

I have gone through my DMC floss stash, and I have lots and lots of duplicates which are now in a shopping bag on the floor next to me. Do I remember someone who was colllecting extra stash for replacements of lost stash etc? If so, could someone please let me know the address, or at least the...

Hi Guys, I was "talking" with Joan today and it seems there isn't a whole lot left to be stitched on the Angel. So, I need to know two things. First off -- Vic -- were you planning on doing the angel's hair in addition to the face, hands & wings? If so, there is even less of the piece left to be...

Does anyone have a simple baby's hat made with baby sportsyarn. I don't want one with ribbons, more a skullcap type of thing. MyDD's hubby's SIL ( got it) is expecting twins, thanks to the science of in vitro fertilization. We aren't close, but I am knitting some booties for the shower,...

I am getting stuck with my endeavours. In order to proceed with my ideas, I need counted cross stitch patterns in electronic form as some form of *.txt or *.csv file. A pattern is a rectangular array, x by y, and I need that array with each "symbol" as an ASCII character. I have written to...

Shay Pendray's book "Stitching to Perfection" A guest at my forum is wanting to get a copy. Anyone have any firm leads? Dianne

Probably one of those lovely virii we were just discussing that download from websites you visit. Just report it to the Complaint address in the headers..... -- Finished 7/18/04 -- 6 bear ornaments WIP: Fireman's Prayer (#2), Amid Amish Life, Angel of Autumn, Calif Sampler, Holiday Snowglobe

With My Needle is pleased to announce that there are three new designs that will be available in the next few weeks. Photos can be seen at http://www.withmyneedle.com The designs a Blairgowrie (a Scottish sampler) Times Remembered (a pastoral scene shown in a mini clock from Olde Colonial...

Does anybody have any suggestions for fabrics to stitch Teresa Wentzler's series of Carousel Horses on? I think the kits came with some off-white 27-count evenweave. Has anybody used something other then this? Any unusual color of fabric? I'm looking for some ideas, since I managed to snag a...