Hi ECS I'm a keen cross stitcher who's most recent project ground to a sad halt because the counted large picture I chose was just too difficult and I was overwhelmed. My daughter is expecting a baby boy in July and I'd dearly like to make this design for her. My fear is that it'll be beyond my skills. I can't tell from the picture how tricky it is. Can someone tell me? cheers Debbie

I've looked at some of the new designs and don't see them matching the quality of Teresa Wentler, Marilyn Emblum Leavitt, Carol Emmer And those unknown designer who designed a lot of Leasure Arts charts. Are there any new designers who cam compare to the designers of former years? Recently I've ordered a lot of the Littlehouse Needleworks and Country Cottage. I've done several of them. I've come from farming people, although I never married a farmer. A lot of the ornaments make me think of the scenes my grandparents must have seen.

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The looting and damaging of shops in Minneapolis? I fully understand the demonstrations on that poor mans death, but why ruin a legal demonstration with hoolganism. It destroys what the demonstration stands for.

Her are some mini irises to brighten your day!

I read what you said about the Clover needle threader. I’d never heard about it before and being a xstitch gadget collector I found a Danish shop that had it and bought it. It arrived this morning along with 2 butterscotch sweeties 😊

Well May ends this week and the next decision to make is which project I'll be picking up for June. Perhaps it might be Sweet Rememberance or perhaps one of the stockings or Siberian Gold or Tuk Bear or............ And I'm ordering MORE patterns!!!!! I think I need my head read although I don't think they would find anything in there!! Still it will me give something to concentrate on when I go into hospital again!! for 2 surgeries this time!! Ah well at least I'm giving the medical staff something to practice on and stop them from getting bored!!

I want to start a project and it calls for 28 count Smokey Pearl. What would be the closest to that in 14 count aida?

Thank you for sending me fake dmc thread and also sending me tied together thread because I dot know why :(

Why my husband doesn’t care when I shop on the googlies!

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Has anyone used the Charles Aida cloth is it durable and even :) Thanks in advance

Are you going to be hitting garage sales, second-hand markets for stitching stuff? Dave's response just brought the topic to mind.... 😃