I finished my cross-stitch dishtowel in time to hang it up on Christmas Eve!
Dec26
In the Nick of Time!
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Dec24
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!
Dec23
Enjoying my makeshift Christmas (coat) tree!
I got the idea from the old “Room by Room” show on HGTV. Matt and Shari made little stuffed mice to tuck in their coat, but I put little stuffed reindeer (Rudy and Ruby) in the pocket and under the collar of mine.
Dec23
Ho! Ho! Ho! Hardwoods Where I Sew!
If I don’t get another thing for Christmas, I am tickled pink with the hardwoods in my grown daughter’s old room where I sew!
Dec18
My Godson has a Baby!
Dec11
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!
Dec5
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!
Dec4
More free downloads!
Dec1
I found some freebies!
Here’s a link to downloadable freebies from Butterick Patterns: http://butterick.mccall.com/free-downloads-pages-1013.php All you have to do is sign up for their e-newsletter!