Secret Santa Hint thread #2 Over 50 of you have confirmed that you want to take part this Christmas. The rest of you have another 5 days to reply to the invitation! In the meantime, lets have some more hints. What is your favourite embroidery style? I
Of interest to those of you who use Embroidery Fonts Plus. I have discovered two things: 1. One of the available fonts is applique shapes. Each letter is equivalent to a different shape. This means that you can make any shape exactly the size you need.
Secret Santa hint thread #1 I have just sent out a message to the 90 people on my list. If you haven't received yours and should have please let me know! This is the first SS hint thread - please tell us what your favourite Christmas colour scheme is.
If anyone would like a tutorial to help them to make the padded rings I used for my holly and pionsettia wreaths, send me a PM with your email address.
Last call for Secret Santa. This is your last chance to sign up for the Secret Santa scheme. Those already on the list are champing at the bit to get moving! If you want to join, send an email to cutesecretsanta@yahoo.com.
I'm looking for a cartoon style design of peas - either in the pod or loose. I've spent some time searching and have found a couple at Embroidery Library but I wondered if anyone knew of any more.
An embroidery story for you. During WW2 Lincolnshire was known as Bomber County and local engineering companies changed to making munitions. One of them made gun turrets for Lancaster Bombers and the wife of the managing director wanted to do her bit for
A glimpse of my other life! At the weekend it was the Gainsborough Folk Festival. For my sins I am the director and dogsbody who organises it. The picture is me making my closing announcements just before the final band gave us an encore. It was all very
It is nearly time for Secret Santa to get moving ready for Actual Christmas! If anyone wants to join the scheme, please send an email to cutesecretsanta@yahoo.com so I can add you to the list. Existing members don't need to do anything yet. (I will only
I logged out earlier to let Songthrush log-on and I've had an awful job getting back in. It seems that each time I come to the site, I have to log-in again, but I get into a loop when my password isn't accepted. So I change my password and all is well u
FAO those of you who have access to a Lidl supermarket. Every few weeks, our Lidl has "sewing sets". They are plastic boxes containing various threads etc. One of the variations has 32 reels of thread each with a matching prewound bobbin. They are ve
For those of you interested in yarn crafts. Is anyone a member of Ravelry.com. I've just joined up and it looks good so far.
Tomorrow, my roof will be generating the electricity to power my sewing machine and more!
Do you ever wonder why you offered to do something?
For anyone who likes making book covers, there is a good tutorial on the Urban Threads site.