With the Renaissance of knitting , there seems to be a renewed interest in knitting children clothes with Figures of animals etc, on them , i find that more and more ladies call to ask if i have a 'knitting pattern' of an animal , when i suggest they consult a xst book , they are...

Yers ago whenever my mother finnished painting with Oil or acrylic , she would `clean` her brushes by rubbing all the leftover paints on clean white canvasses. Later she would usec those as base for her New paintings , claimimg this old rubbed on leftover paints gave her painting DEPTH,,, Took me...

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Does anyone know where I can find a detailed, realistic chart for a black housecat? Please contact me directly as I do not get to view all messages in the group archives. Sincerely, Mary Ann G.

I'm going to Seattle next week for a conference. Does anyone know any needlework shops in the city worth visiting?

I am making my Friend`s first GD , a letter sampler with xst letters + tiny appliqued things that go with each letter , I was very happy to see i can now buy colored Aida here. Bought RED Aida and am now threading lines to mark the places ,, Hebrew has 22 regular letters + 5 End Letters ,,...

The Biblical forbiding of making an IMAGE , has been accepted also by the Islam. Thus if you research and look closely at Jewish and Islamic embroidery , you will see that forming letters was a traditional way to avoid that. But one doesn`t see many Samplers of letters which is a more western...

Hi Guys, I don't think I posted that I will be tagging along with DH on a business trip to Europe next week. We will be in Lomm, The Netherlands (about an hours drive north of Dusseldorf) for a few days and then we go to Brno, Czech Rep. for a few days. We fly from here to Dusseldorf and...

Sheena, I did not reduce the picture in the "My Pictures" folder, prior to posting this (it is the blue and gold pic). Has it come up correctly for you? I sure don't want to eat up all the space we are given. The picture was the one I carried to Japan last March for Mike and Aya. Thanks Gill

I have acquired a small charm featuring our high school logo, and would like to craft it into a small gift for a friend. Does anyone have any suggestions for a project that would nicely showcase this vintage charm?

As I was cleaning up after DS changing a guitar string, (yes, he does put most of it in the trash, some how there is always a piece or three hanging around after) I wondered if if the pieces would work for stumpwork? Thoughts? C

I ordered this book last September. It has repeatedly been backordered. Has anyone actually seen a copy? Did it sell out right away and is waiting for reprint? Anyone have any info? TIA, Jeanine in Canada

It's been a long week in NH. Yesterday started and ended at a rink. DD had to be at the rink for 6:30 AM, left, went home returned to the rink at noon, went to the next rink and didn't leave there until 5 PM. Then this AM, DD and I did a cookie booth. Then came the "odd" part of the day - my turn...

Please e-mail me, dear. I'm not sure which e-mail addy I have for you is correct. Thanks & CiaoMeow ^;;^ PAX, Tia Mary ^;;^ (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at ...

It's an "intimate" practice, you might say, of a woman being ejaculated on by multiple men. Wikipedia says its possible origins are from Japan. Learn something new every day, although I probably could've lived the rest of my life without knowing that. Meli "jo" wrote in message...

Want to put a question to you guys. What kind of designs in regards to useability are you looking for? We already had shawls mentioned, which I will certainly take up. I thought about mobile phone convers, but with all those different types of phones around and the constant handling of the...

Some time ago, I asked for a suggestion for a framing shop in Winnipeg. Someone here suggested Sheena's Gallery, and thank you! I had a piece that was a gift for a friend in Winnipeg. Rather than framing it in Baltimore and spending big bucks to ship it, I sent the unfinished piece to Sheena's...

A friend of mine who understands how much fun a challenge is gave me an unusual gift: academic hoods. A collection of nine hoods from various colleges. (someone had *waaay* to many degrees!) She said I could use the fabric for backing holiday ornaments, but we had great fun imagining several...

Distributed Proofreaders just posted their 10,000th title to Project Gutenberg! This one is of interest here (RCTN) because it just happened to be Therese de Dillmont's "Encyclopedia of Needlework" in English. The text will be available tomorrow at Project Gutenberg at the following address: ...

Well the chart has arrived, all the way from the US of A, and is almost incomprehensible - probably due to me not being a counted stitch person! From the photos, I thought most of the stitches were surface and ribbon. Never mind, I thought, I can replace most of them with bullion roses,...