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I bought a PDF pattern on Etsy for $2.95. While browsing I found it on a well known crossstitch website for $19.00+. Do I do nothing, just don’t buy from them again? Let the designer know? Buy it again from the designer to support them? What would you do? I find this troubling. Maybe I should just be pleased with the bargain?

Having been a stitcher for decades I have never actually seen aida fabric with faint light yellow stains. I recently purchased an older out of print, sealed kit packaged in 1996 on ebay from a seller located in TX. The design is not sold in chart form which would have been my preferred choice. The white aida has very faint light yellowing all over it and not just at the fold lines but it is otherwise very clean and new fabric. Does anyone know is this strictly from age or maybe from being left sitting in the sun for an extended period of time? The pattern looks fine with no discoloration at all by its fold lines and so do the threads, but it has been dark with rain here the last few days so I'm waiting for a bright, clear day to look closer. Has anyone had this happen? Does the yellowing wash out and if it does will it not return as a mystery stain months or years later? What do you rinse it with to remove? I saw vinegar, hydrogen peroxide rinse, and Oxi Clean as ways to deal with stains but wondering if anyone has had an experience like this before and if they permanently and successfully removed the stains. Also, here's a link for a good number of easy freebie cross stitch I saw but the designs are very basic https://www.countryliving.com/diy-crafts/a6380/cross-stitch/

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Does this project include the little purse or just the cross stitch pattern to be used as what ever I wish? Thank you! Pam

I saw on the news this morning that a big fire is only 10 miles east of Glide, Oregon (Glide is about 10 miles west of Roseburg and Roseburg is 11 miles south of us) where my go-to-goat guy and his wife live with their 30+ female goats (does) and 33 or so kids. We are expecting high winds today going from East to West!!! That hardly ever happens because our weather comes from the West and heads East. Winds expected can be from 30 and gusting to 60 miles an hour this morning and this is what spreads fires quickly...the embers from the fire travel on the wind that ignites everything they touch because everything is so dry right now. They are putting together their "grab and go" things AND they can get the goats out if they need to AND Douglas County Fairgrounds, slightly south of Roseburg, is set up to take in animals and their owners during the fire. They are on the other side of the Umpqua River, but fire can jump rivers. Also there is another big fire that started somehow last night that is just East of Springfield/Eugene, Oregon and my DH is heading up there now to rebuild a section of fence that blew down last night in the heavy winds at one of the rentals in Springfield. There is smoke everywhere. We have plenty of smoke here in Sutherlin now. So please keep them all in your prayers. This is close to home for me, but we need to continue praying for CA also. They are being ravaged by fires right now. Just to let you know, we are not in any imminent danger, but I'm keeping an eye out, just in case. Thank you

Hello this is Adrienne McCambry while on my computer around 11:46 p.m. Pacific time I felt a slight rumble earthquake. Nothing has fallen and there is no damage.

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Hi, I got this project and it is beautiful, but I am running out of floss No. 17981 and 17150. I don't know which number to buy in order to substitute them. Any idea? Thanks

What is the last book that you enjoyed? I’m not into mystery books.

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I am trying to understand the patterns that say "with ornament" in their name. They look the same as other patterns. I don't see an additional item, the flyer itself says nothing about an ornament, and it does not look like it would be the right size to make an ornament. Please help.

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