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Good Morning All!

Have been busy here with outside work and inside work then was sick for three day ( I over-did the outside work) but did get some stitching in but not much. Just want to see how you all were doing and check in. Going to make a apple macaroni salad today.

Take care and have a great Memorial Day weekend.

Thank you to all our Veteran's that served and are serving now!

Holly

Oh my goodness- I thought I would never finish this! After I frogged the initial letters, I charted new ones on graph paper. When I was stitching them the connections between the letters didn’t look right, so I kept refrogging and stitching until I was happy with the result. Same with the numbers; I had issues with the spaces between and had to keep adjusting them- of course more frogging😆 It will be a long while before I stitch anything else that requires me to put letters and numbers together!!

Today is Friday …………………………………….……………. Good Morning, MJ 💕

Good Friday morning everyone. This week just flew by in a blur. We are still waiting on Poppy's blood test results and I know it's going to be more trips to the vet. Still stitching about an hour a day and making progress on my arm and on "Lady Seated at her Needlework". I can already tell people are getting ready for Memorial Day because of fireworks. Have a fabulous Friday!

I have purchased the other three patterns in this series as downloadable files. Can you acquire this pattern as a downloadable file?

Good Morning


Leviticus 27: 11-15


11 If, however, it is any unclean animal of the kind which
ones does not present as an offering to the Lord, then
he shall place the animal before the priest.


12 And the priest shall assess it as either good or bad; as you,
the priest, assess it, so shall it be.


13 But if he should ever want to redeem it, then he shall add
a fifth of it to your assessment.



14 'Now if someone consecrates his house as holy to the Lord,
then the priest shall assess it as either good or bad; as the
priest assesses it, so shall it stand.


15 Yet if the one who consecrates it should want to redeem his house,
then he shall add a fifth of your assessment price to it, so that it
may be his.


Have A Bless Day!

Hi everyone! Our needles are taking a little break for Memorial Day weekend! 🧵❤️

We will be closing at **2PM EST today, Friday, May 22nd** and will reopen on **Tuesday, May 26th**.

During this time:
🧵Orders and phone calls will be handled once we return to the office
📧 Customer Service will still be answering emails during the closure, but please be patient with response times while our team enjoys the holiday weekend too!

But our website is always open 24/7 for all your cross stitching needs, so you can keep those projects and stash goals going strong! ✨

We hope your weekend is filled with relaxation, good company, and plenty of stitching time. Have a safe and wonderful Memorial Day weekend! ❤️

~Kristi @ ECS

Hi: I have been working on the pattern Abundance by Sandy Lynam Clough. I bought the pattern in the early 90's & its been on my bucket list since then. I started it a few months ago. The hardest part of this pattern is that there are so many color changes in one piece of fruit & all the colors are almost the same. I am wondering if anyone has a suggestion as to how to attack this pattern in respect to so many color changes. I have tried to take one color & do as much of that as I can, but I end up miscounting & have to remove the stitches. I am sooooo frustrated.
Also in the picture there is a grey line between the pages. The pattern says "Grey area indicates last row of right section of design" I don't know if I am supposed to do the stitches shown in that grey area, or just move to the next page as it seem the following row has the exact stitch colors? Pictures below to show me dilemma . Sorry. I know the pattern is in really bad shape.

Today is Thursday ………………………………………………Good Morning, MJ 💕

Hello everyone! I'm hoping to start a new project in a couple of months. It's an American flag and is a very wide design -- I'll be stitching it on 16-count fabric ((actually 32-count stitched over 2 threads)) and design itself will be just under 44" wide. Because I seem, despite significant effort, to be unable to properly center a design I prefer to have 3" borders rather than the commonly recommended 2" borders. So, my fabric will be cut about 50 inches wide ((and about 32" deep/high)).

I always use scroll rods, and have 48" wide scroll rods and a floor frame/stand that will accommodate that width.

Because the fabric will be wider than the scroll rod I anticipate having to fold a bit of the fabric over at one end of the rod. It will be bulky but with the total width, I am thinking that while I'm working at one end of the design the bulk won't be bothersome or a problem. Once I reach perhaps half-way across the design, I can re-attach the fabric to the rods so that the folded part is at the other end of the design.

Is this the best approach, or is there something else I should consider? I know that if I'm folding the fabric I can use slightly shorter scroll rods ((don't need full 48" width)) but I purchased the long rods so am likely to use them.

I'm looking forward to starting the project but am intimidated by its size! Been purchasing floss -- almost 400 skeins!! -- a bit at a time for a couple of years to spread out the cost.

Thanks for any thoughts, and encouragement!