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

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

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.

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!

Good Thursday morning everyone. Our Poppy slept through the night and when we took her temperature last night it was down to 101.8. She's still not 100% and we're waiting for results of her bloodwork. I still think it's her tooth and if the bloodwork shows nothing we want her mouth x-rayed to see if there's an abscess. Today it will be taking care of Poppy. I can't believe it's Memorial Day weekend already! Have a thankful Thursday!

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Just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your new format for showing new or sale patterns, so much easier to view and make decisions whether they are do-able or not. My late seventies eyes really appreciate the change. Thanks so much.

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!!

Good Morning


Leviticus 27: 6 -10


6 But if the person is from a month even up to five years old,
then your assessment shall be five shekels of silver for a male,
and for a female your assessment shall be three shekels of silver.



7 If the person is from sixty years old and upward, if a male, then your
assessment shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female, ten shekels.


8 But if he is poorer than your assessment, then he shall be presented
before the priest, and the priest shall assess him; according to the
means of the one who vowed, the priest shall assess him.


9 Now if it is an animal of the kind that one can present as an offering
to the Lord, any such animal that one gives to the Lord shall be holy.


10 He shall not replace it nor exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a
good; yet if he does animal for animal, then both it and its substitute
shall became holy.


Have A Bless Day!