dancing up & down & round & round Got the results from my entries in our county fair: 2nd place: Summer garden, by Victoria Sampler 1st place: Bloom where you are planted (the freebie that goes with Summer Garden), also by VS 1st place: Bethlehem, by K. Elaine Kramer (can be seen...

i wnated to give a word and esp it`s first or letter a `Crown`, This has a long tradition . I looked at my Megila =scroll, and wasn`t pleased with the crowns i saw ,,,, So i laid my finnished embroidered word before me and started to lay over it threads in various forms ,, nothing really work ,...

Just for the heck of it, let me tell you the tale of woe about my crum-bum week. First I discovered that the headlight on the passenger side of my car is missing the plastic cover. Whether it just fell off, or someone needed the part (it's a 98 model) who knows, but it's going to cost over...

Hi, 6 down, 2 to go. Sew day is done with the little basket of many goodies in the sewing basket. Take a peek ~ Pictures are...

So this work is finnished ,,, all i have to do is fold it two use the extra length i cut , to cover the back ,,, and add some loops and it is finished , it`s `fellow` woven part will now get the last touches , and the work will be laid in my Ready works closet ... Like any new work it has taught me...

A scissor fob or other item you want more flat than rounded/puffy? Cheryl

Borders on tacky in my book, but kind of funny too. Several places in Manchester serve poutine. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/od_nm/odd_poutine_dc_1

The metal casing on one side of my trash compactor door came loose and is now somewhat firmly wedged near the hinges, making it impossible to close and open the door without further distorting the metal. I knew something was wrong 2 nights ago but I was soooooo tired, I didn't pay attention and...

Hi! As requested, I have finally gotten around to pics of my waste canvas on silk experiment. I purposely made the frame as big as the Chateliene (sp?) piece I actually want to do on the silk fabric in order to determine if I can get to the center. I set up the frame this way - first I stitched...

Diane, I dl'd the pdf and will be printing the outline drawing and the cross stitch chart. I'd like to try the cross stitch in white on white ...............just to see....it may end up being ecru/white and white but the whole design is small enough to play with. Also, I read the posts about...

Alrighty...the snail trail is half done. Today..."Bake Day" has joined the group with his little rolling pin. The pictures are...

Is this a place where I can ask qeustions about cross-stitch? thanks ktj

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll2kajMH2u0 I know I mailed to lots of you and no doubt missed others and this really needs to be seen by anyone with a sense of the bizarre and/or loves game shows Cheryl

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080706/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_yellowcake_mission&printe r=1;_ylt=Ak071NkYbMITD9ECM5r58ycUewgF

Well, I've finished my first quilt. It's for DD. You can see pics of it he http://community.webshots.com/user/ndjoan and in rctnp. Don't look *too* closely or you'll see my mistakes! LOL It was a practice piece for a different quilt I want to make in darker teal, cream & gold, with daisies &...

Hi Everyone! There is a cute little critter looking at his reflection today... in the Iron. ;) Today: the "Iron Day" snail. Pictures...

On the pattern of my latest maiden, the computer has selected a sustantial area dominated by two colors, DMC 742 (RGB 247,169,51) and 972 (RGB 244, 172,42), which I find are not very different in color. The distribution seems to be pseudo-random, and keeping an accurate count, and putting...

I'm working on updating my checklists previously published on this news group) for the new June 2008 colors. So far, I haven't heard about the Weeks Dye Works but I have the following new colors if anyone wants to manually add to their printouts. (Anyone run across the weeks in their...

Isn't this Pat Porter's birthday? Probably 39 again. If I haven't made a mistake, have a good one Pat. Sharon (N.B.)

I had great fun , reading the book about Elsa Schiaparelli life , I already knew about her Knitting designs , but this book also shows her embroidery designs ,, the woman Knew her materials ,, i was Esp enchanted by the embroderies around the Circus theme !!! in 1938 !!! mirjam