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Well, we are moved into our new house. My husband went back to work this morning after having several days off to help out here. It's a bit of a relief, honestly, to have the house to myself so that I can get things unpacked. Unfortunately, my husband tends to unpack a single thing at a time, takes a walk down memory lane, and then gets sidetracked by something else. It's not a huge help.

The needle for Counted Cross Stitch work is also different than a regular embroidery needle. The counted cross-stitch needle will have a dull, rounded point instead of a sharp point. Because you stitch in the holes of the fabric instead of piercing the fabric as you do in regular embroidery, you need your needle to slip into the holes easily. When looking for the needles in the store, the package will list the needles as Counted Cross Stitch needles.

Keep in mind when shopping for an embroidery machine that you should buy the best machine you can afford. A few hundred dollars can mean the difference between a machine that stitches designs adequately compared to a machine that produces a beautiful result time after time.



It was in 1948 that the slogan t-shirt was first used. Thomas E. Dewey, then New York governor, used it for his campaign with the slogan, Dew it with Dewey. In the middle of the 1950s the t-shirt became popular wear among young people after it was worn as an outer shirt onscreen by Hollywood stars John Wayne, Marlon Brando and James Dean. Companies in Miami, Florida then got licensed to use the names of resorts and characters from Walt Disney as designs in t-shirts.

If the colors embroidery projects are clearly separated it will be easier for you to count your stitches and keep them separate. The more colors, particularly those with close hues, the harder it will be to follow your pattern and the more you will have to concentrate.

Cut two circles of black felt and glue them onto the small hoop to create the eyes for the turkey. Cut a yellow triangle for a beak. Cut a waddle from red or orange felt. The waddle can have the shape of a flat, wooden ice cream spoon, or even the shape of a deflated balloon. Glue it beside the beak.

Getting my hands dirty this week, though, was rewarded with discovering a few items I had forgotten about. First, there was a big storage bin full of fabric that I thought had been thrown out after the Great Basement Flood of 2011. I was overjoyed to find many pieces that included some of my favorites as well as CDs filled with machine embroidery promotion!

Felt pens are the most useful and easiest means of decorating a scrapbook by coloring pages. You can write captions, draw designs and pictures using felt pens. As felt pens are available in a variety of colors, you can have a myriad of design options.

All in all, he's a good guy. He sees my fabric spilling out of boxes in the garage, gets out of the way when I spill pins and teases me, good naturedly, about my variety of thread. He helps when I'm working on tricky embroidery design patterns and remembers little technical things that I tend to forget. He comes from a household of stitchers, so I guess I should never be surprised by any of this.