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Project Round up!

I’ve gotten so I post on Facebook more than I post here, but I miss this blog – lots of history and frankly I’ve just gotten so busy with www.denverparent.net and www.midcenturystyle.net that I forget about it! 🙂 I’m almost done with this piece, my first full size cross stitch.

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Playing with creating Cross Stitch patterns

I’m getting tired of my current projects and am circling in on finishing them (hope, hope, hope) – but today I started playing with what may be my next project. I really want to try my hand at creating a cross stich pattern of my own. A lotus on a

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Cross Stitch progress

I’ve been working away at my cross stitch. I really have enjoyed working on this and I think it’s the variation of colors and textures I like the most. As for books, nothing too exciting. Do you ever have too much to read and books your not that thrilled about

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Creative Round up

I’m still working away at my cross stitch and my crewel project. However, I took a side trip over to the sewing machine to catch up mending – I think that’s my biggest annoyance with the machine is that it can be used for so many practical things! ha ha!

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When stitching sucks

So, I’ve been MIA for a while – reading my tail off (yes, I made my goal of 80 books for the year – even exceeded it – hooray!) – see sidebar for the gory details (ha ha). The sad news is that while I was on a trip to

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Working on my Cross stitch

Working on my Cross stitch

There just hasn’t been much embroidery, sewing, crazy quilting or anything else going on here. Colorado has had such a tough year with the fires, the movie theater shooting and now Jessica Ridgeway – who went to an elementary school in our area and now her killer was found just

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My new/old TAST stitch book and a new project

I bought this fantastic mud-cloth from the flea market in Santa Fe New Mexico years ago and when I was looking to put together a stitch book it seemed like a great idea. The book is still really rough, but when I realized I wasn’t happy incorporating all the fantastic

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