Monthly Archives: December 2011

Merry Christmas, Everybody!

Merry Christmas, Everybody!
Merry Christmas, Everybody!

Oh, no, Nana! Not another cap!
Merry Christmas from
Kent, Karla & PJ!

I used Photo Frame Show again this year to create a Christmas ecard. Consequently, I learned how to change the size of a JPEG file using Paint. (Open the photo with Paint, choose Image, choose Resize/Skew, change the vertical and horizontal widths to 50% and “save as” a similar name.) I created the card using Frame Show’s free online software and sent the card to myself. I downloaded the image, and by saving it, I can use it in other applications! Ho!Ho!Ho! Thank you, Frame Show!

Enjoying Stitchery and Practicing French!

Enjoying Stitchery and Practicing French!
Enjoying Stitchery and Practicing French!


I have found a most wonderful blog by Brigette Dadaux. She is, of course, French, and I am having a most wonderful time perusing her embroidery graphs (grilles)and trying to translate her blog. Her grilles are available as downloads. Choose telecharger. Bonne broderie! (I think!) Merci, Brigette!

A New Magazine!

A New Magazine!
A New Magazine!

I have hopes that the collective cosmic crafting consciousness will turn it’s attention back to cross-stitch. Here’s a magazine that helps me with that hope. I looked at it three times at Michaels before deciding I had to have it.

The projects range from small to large, simple to complex. I’ll have to admit, though, that it was the redwork that sold me!