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Have just completed a Spring clean of my wish list and cut it down from 10 pages to 8 pages. It might get even smaller if I get ruthless and decide I don't REALLY like some patterns that much after all but we will see. The trouble is that I then go onto the site and start looking at patterns and kits and add them onto the list and it grows again!! Ah well it's a great hobby and good to look at what I have on my list and wonder what was I was thinking of when I put them on the list.

hello to y'all, i was wondering after you get a packet and they are not dmc threads how do you tranfer your thread to DMC

Greetings, When my son was born, my mother started a cross stitch sampler for him. Sadly, it was never finished. That son now has a daughter, and I would like to finish the sampler for her. Unfortunately, I cannot find the pattern. I have contacted the vendor, who informed me that the pattern is no longer available. Stitchers - please check your stash. Can someone help me find the following pattern? Sunset Chicks at Play Sampler - Kit 3002 Designed by Ruth J Morehead 1987 With gratitude in advance and my fingers crossed, Trisha

I love all of the dyed fabrics coming out! I can't find a single one though that is a 25-count evenweave. The 28-count is too small to fit Mill Hill seed beads. I bead stitch almost as much as I cross stitch. Can anyone help?

Is this a digital download pattern? Can it be?

In Clearwater Beach with my son. After 3 or 4 times trying to feel good enough to travel I did it. But what a night! Picked up my rental car at Tampa airport and no sooner out of the airport and a cop🚨 pulls me over😨. 50 year driving record and never been stopped. Turns out I had no back lights. Great because it was 8pm and dark. He let me follow him back into the airport because I would have never figured out how to turn around. Picked up new car and came back out of airport amd missed my turn for SR60😵😵. So I thought I will just keep driving till I hit the ocean and I can find my way from there. HaHa good thing my son called wondering where I was😆 I was heading South instead of West. 👈👉👆👇 I have no sense of direction--at all. Only took me 2hrs of what is a 20 minute ride to get to him. I'm beat!

My two girls and I are going to Gettysburg on the first weekend of November. We booked two different Ghost walks. I am not a huge fan of Halloween but I am a huge fan of history especially Civil War history. We have been to Gettysburg many times as we are only about a two-hour drive from there. We plan on going early Saturday morning and driving around to all the different monuments and battlefield areas. I have a CD I bought years ago that narrates the drive. We are taking a picnic lunch to enjoy during the day. Our first ghost walk is at 7:30 pm and lasts about 1 hr and 15 min and the other is at 10:30 pm and is an hour and a half. That one includes the famous Jennie Wade house. It should be a very interesting and educational trip too. The ghost walks are not so much scary as they are more informative and rich in history! Got a great hotel room and will finish the trip up with a nice breakfast on Sunday morning before heading home!

I will officially end the WHERE DO WE LIVE CHAT on Friday, October 18th. As I often do, I have bit off more than I can chew. However, I believe that people should not say "somebody should do something unless they are willing to do or at least help do it themselves. Therefore, I stuck thru the challenge. First, I started writing stuff down on notebook paper. Then I started making an Excel spreadsheet. More complicated than I thought it would be. Couldn't read my own handwriting and didn't keep my notes together and organized. Then, after many attempts I came up with an Excel sheet. After I was about 1/2 thru I saved it (of course) and threw away the paper. Then the very next day I deleted it. OY VEY! So, I stated over again and again. So, I am midway thru an Excel spread sheet with three basic columns: Name/sign in; City; State or Country. It is looking very good. NOW THE CHALLENGE. How do I distribute the information? I'm sure most of you are interested or you would not have responded. It is about 100 lines long. Probably inappropriate for the ChitChat. Don't want to mail because that would be a lot of money on postage. ** No more names after October 18th. ** Week of October 20th will spend the following week finishing the data entry and going back and double check all the information. **Week of October 27th -- I will be out of town. **Around November 2nd or 3rd I will post my contact information. **Then I will email interested members a copy of my spreadsheet. After that I will be thru with volunteering NANCYE G

Sometimes I think that doing line by line while cross stitching is better than using same color all over (where called for). If I do line by line, then I need to have many colored threads all ready with needle to use. So where do I put these threaded needles ? But By doing it this way, I can never lose my place on my chart. Do any of you have any suggestions ? Sometimes there are so many different "like" colors to use, I get confused and irritated. I've been known to just rip up a project and throw it out. The other day, while doing a sunset scene, I got so frustrated that I just wrapped everything up neatly and brought it to my laundry room with a note saying, if you like cross stitch, just take ! I really loved this scene (with palm trees) and I even bought all the floss to go with it. OOOhhh, I am so mad at myself so now I just stick to simple patterns and yes, back to my Granny Squares. Paula

How are your items shipped? UPS or USPS?

As I’m getting into my cruiser this afternoon I hear Officer John Metzo tell dispatch that he’s out on a call that he was dispatched to. “Good luck” was her reply. “Good luck?” I say. “That’s weird” My interest piqued, I open the call screen. The call location is Root Rd. Just North of Lorain Rd. “A cow fell out of a truck” Wait. What? I’m enroute. I am soooo enroute. I arrive on scene and this is exactly as reported. Apparently a truck was pulling a trailer and the back door popped open and out came said cow. Unscathed, and making a concerted effort at freedom. Officer Ryan Jones is now there and they are trying to corral the fastest cow I’ve ever seen, though in fairness, my experience with cows is quite limited. We go left, she goes right. We go right, she goes left. She manages to get across Root Rd with three cruisers trying to corral her before she fights a Subaru. We chase her straight into the open garage of Worcester’s. End game. As we’re congratulating ourselves on being cowboys, she runs out of the open back door. Son of a.... Back in pursuit. She runs to the embankment of SR 10, finds the only hole in the perimeter fence, and heads for the highway. Bad. Very bad. Ryan has a decision to make, and he chooses ninja warrior over the other. He sprints up the embankment, heads her off, and talks her out of being murdered by a semi. Long story short, we are able to corral her while driving our trusty steeds....well, Police Interceptors, through a really nice and understanding farmer’s soybean field. (Sorry again) The owner shows up and immediately lets two more cows loose, which seems like an absolutely horrible idea, though again reference our lack of cow herding education. Turns out, it totally worked. Our fugitive cow runs over to the other two. After some negotiation, they convince her to get back in the trailer before things get worse. While we’re talking about how we absolutely couldn’t get a rope on this cow the owner lets us in on the cow’s name. No joke. I swear to you this is her name. Moodini. I literally could not have made that up if I wanted to and it is absolutely fitting. Anyway, Moodini is back where she belongs. Nothing is hurt, cars, cows, or people, and the citizens can once again sleep peacefully knowing they will not be trampled to death by a cow while checking their mail. All in a days work. Rest easy citizens. Rest easy.

Did i receive the correct color on 917 or should I receive the correct thread. If I received the correct thread then your picture needs to be changed to reflect the correct color for 917

Does this kit need to be washed? in the description it says prewashed ink? What does that mean.

I am thinking of purchasing Artecy's "Colourful Clownfish" and stitching it on a piece of random dyed material. I won't have to stitch all the black background and the blues would look like ripples in the pond. What does anyone think and what would you suggest colour wise. I am going top order 2 or 3 pieces of material to set up some patterns for stitching over the next few months as I am due to have surgery to remove some cancer lesions at the end of this month and need something to take my mind of everything.

Looking trough my stash yesterday I found a Thomas Kinkade pattern called "Lamplight Brooke" and a Mirabilia pattern called "Lilly of the Woods - The Dreaming Fairy". I will never do them and wonder if there is someone out there that likes these designers and would like to stitch them. I also found several Margaret Sherry cat patterns if anybody is interested. And I still haven't found the pattern I was looking for!!