Month: May 2018

Stitching buddies

Today I’m off to stitch with friends! The third Wednesday of the month is one of my local ANG meetings, and I drive about 2 hours to get there. We stitch, catch up, have lunch, then I drive 2 hours home. I started doing this more than a decade ago. I searched out local chapters […]

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Strip and Flip

Most of us are self taught in the needle arts. That is, we saw a kit in a big box store, liked it, bought it, brought it home and struggled through it. Some of us struggled more than others! But some of us thought, this is easy, and continued on. If you were taught by

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The end is near

So you’ve been stitching and are nearing the end of the thread. How to end off? The fastest and easiest way is to just pull the thread to the front of the canvas, either in the stitching area or in the margin, and leave it. As you stitch the next stitches, you’ll stitch over the

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Keeping it fresh

I think the problem with inconsistencies in keeping up with my blog is that I don’t always have something profound to say. After all, I don’t want to waste your time! But it sets up a dilemma for me to come up with something interesting, however small, to blog about on a regular basis. So

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