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Does anybody know a good way to stop dark colored (red in this case) from bleeding onto white thread? Thanks I mean fabric color. Sorry

Hi from Down Under I’ve just finished this little gift for my daughter in law who has had a tough year. Hope it makes her smile😀 Aussie Sylvia

Hi all! Job one's workweek is over, and I'm off from job two this week so I have a break! I ordered a beautiful pattern with blue/purple morning glories about a week ago. A few days ago I ordered the fabric for it. Guess what came today! The fabric. ): I mean, I absolutely love the fabric, but I need the pattern. I'm changing the blue/purple flowers to coral/peach beads and wanted to work out the color change details during my weekend off. There's also a slight change in plans.. I was going to bead stitch on moss green Lugana 25 ct and completely changed my mind and ordered pale yellow (daffodil) Lugana 25 from another site because ECS doesn't carry it. I hope the pattern arrives tomorrow! I need to start beading fast before I change my mind yet again.

I know all of the Artecy patterns can be started in the upper Left hand corner. So my question is. Would it be better to have 4 inches all the way around for framing or have 3 inches all the way around?

Years ago I bought a bunch of her leaflets and 4 books based on her designs.To date, I have only done one and it turned out beautiful. I would like to do more of them but I never learned the more advance stitches necessary. Can anyone recommend a book that I can get to learn these stitches? I'm looking at the "New Cross Stitcher's Bible", does any one own it? Thanks for any help.

Under supplies it gives the option of 28 count evenweave which is a little more expensive than aida. When i pick it, in my cart it still shows it as 14 ct. aida. Can you make sure i will get the evenweave before i complete the order? Thanks

Anyone know if I can buy just the pattern? I've never done a "kit" and I really don't want to do a kit.

Hi there everyone! Just wanted to give you all a heads up that we will be closing our offices early today....around 3:30pm EST. We are having our ECS Holiday Party this evening so we are needing to close a bit earlier so we can all have some time to get ready and look fancier than normal :) Our phones will be shut down starting at this time and any emails sent after 3:30pm EST will not be answered until tomorrow morning. We thank you all for understanding!! Happy Holidays!! ~Kristi @ ECS

As many of you have read on here I am doing a six-week food challenge. Every Thursday we get the recipe and menu for the following week so we can shop for what we need and do food prep on the weekend. I have been trying hard to follow the menu but quite frankly the food on it is not all that great. It is hard to just change your way of eating all of a sudden and introduce all new things into your diet but I have been really trying to do it. This week's menu included two breakfast smoothies that other people in the challenge said tasted terrible. One girl said she would rather lick the sidewalk then take another sip. I am not a smoothie drinker. I have tried in the past and it just isn't for me. I would rather do the egg or oatmeal that he had on the menu for the first three weeks. So that's what I usually do. Anyway, the instructor posted a message in our FB chatroom group and it was pretty harsh. It put tears in my eyes and more frustration on my mind. He basically said we have to do this 100% and not "half-ass." I admit I am not doing all the food 100% of the time. I swap out some of the meals for other low carb/diabetic recipes. Most of which I have made in the past, or find online that is more appealing to my family's pallet. We also have to post pics of the food and our prep and the prep of our clothes every night to get points. We have to take pics of ourselves every week and do our BMI every day and weight and fill out an accountability sheet. Thre are only nine of us in the challenge. At the halfway point, tallies came out and I am in last place with the points. It's not that I am upset about being last because I am usually the last one in from our hallway runs and other exercises... but I get it done! It's the feeling that being last somehow makes me, in his eyes less committed to the challenge. I work out four times a week and sometimes 5. Last night, I even did stuff (weights) with my shoulder, that I shouldn't have done and I am paying for it now. I feel like the instructor thinks I am not trying hard enough. He was pretty harsh in this post on FB. To be honest, I forget about taking the pics of my food and I get my lunch ready in the morning and let the dogs outside, feed the fish. etc. I have a routine that works for me. I don't feel the need to set everything out the night before and take pics of it. I change into my workout clothes when I get home from work. They are in my dresser drawer and are easily accessible. My husband hasn't read the post yet but is upset it has me this upset. He wants to just pull the plug on the food challenge and just do it ourselves. It is making me feel very stressed out and like a loser and not in the right sense of mind for this challenge. I admit that I haven't lost all that much weight and have plateaued since the beginning back in April. However, I feel stronger and can lift things like 50 lb bags of dog food and carry two 24 packs of bottled water with something on top yet. My clothes are fitting better which (back in the beginning, he said is just a different sign you are doing your body good). People tell me I look good and am working hard. I have hit a slump lately and his post just isn't helping me get out of it. Thanks for letting me vent.

I just finished this stocking for my future son-in-law (I did the stitching and a seamstress friend of mine did the finishing). I'm so excited! He is coming for Christmas, which is when he will first lay eyes on it. :) Having some issues uploading the picture ...