jofrog2000 — Cute Embroidery

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I'm a proud Mom. My baby-well, he's 36, but still my baby-is going to have his head shaved for a Childhood Cancer fundraising. One of my grandson Landon's classmates-they are 9- has been battling brain cancer for 3 years. A very brave child, he

5 22 Sep 2017

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I made a new batch of ribbon barrettes for my great niece Amelia. They take a while longer now with wonky fingers, but bring back memories of my daughter wearing them. And I get a steady stream of pictures with her wearing them, which makes me smile.

10 26 Feb 2017

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Has anyone ever come across a shark's tooth in fsl? Just spent a week at Topsail Island NC with my gs searching for them, and thought that would be great for this year's ornament. So far, no luck. Jo

6 30 Nov 2016

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Spent some time at my sister's in NC this summer, and worked with her church quilt group, who make prayer quilts for those in need of some comfort. They are hand tied, and at church service, any who would like to tie a knot and say a prayer are asked to

9 29 Aug 2016

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This is a very good visual post on cleaning your machine of dust and fluff. I do find that a pipe cleaner grabs the mess quite nicely Now if there was just more room under there so I didn't whack my knuckles so many times. Check out Sewing Tips for

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[1] thesewingloft

thesewingloftblog.com

8 11 Apr 2016

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Before the slippers, I knit fingerless gloves for my daughter. She had me take the picture of this side,"because her nails needed doing". My GS, who was doing his homework, grabbed them and proved they work keeping hands warm. Now to use the leftove

6 11 Feb 2016

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I haven't crocheted for years, but thought that Nana should make some slippers. Here is my satisfied customer. I wanted to put some puffy paint dots on the bottom to make them unslippable, but he said no way. So, they make great slidey exercise slippe

16 09 Feb 2016

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See the big lump on the right? That's my car under there. Thank goodness we've had some sun and worked to get the driveway clear.

11 27 Jan 2016

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Knit scarf for my grandson in his favorite color. I'm proud of myself, I haven't knit in years, and the RA has done wonky things to my fingers so I had to learn how to hold the yarn tension all over again. Now we just need cold weather (or not.) Jo

8 29 Dec 2015

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My SIL made me a bookcase (I think I'm gonna need another) and I finally started putting my material on comic book boards. Some of it I've had to iron, and am refalling in love with it. Lots more to do, but I think seeing it all at once will make it e

11 11 Dec 2015

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Oct 19, 2015<br /><br /> For all of you who are either making, or want to try ith zipper bags, threadsnscissors is having a 48 hour sale- as of today- in the $1 designs (see top of column at left of page) Colleen has 4 different sets of them, along

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[1] threadsnscissors

www.threadsnscissors.com

10 19 Oct 2015

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A while back, someone was having a problem after buying something from astitchahalf. I looked, but could not find that post to add to. Through yahoo groups, there has now been a message from Annemarie . They relocated from Namibia to South Afri

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[1] a stitch a half

www.astitchahalf.com

3 23 May 2015

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26April2015***Awesome list of quilts to make with Jellyrolls. Or use your own fabric cut into 2½" strips.

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[1] jellyrollpatterns

www.jellyrollfabric.net

6 26 Apr 2015

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If you want to use jellyrolls, or have lots of material of your own to cut into strips, this is a great site for patterns for inspiration, tutorials on the blocks you can make. I do sew things into strip sets to use in my quilts, but did not know how man

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[1] jellyrollfabric

www.jellyrollfabric.net

13 06 Mar 2015

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23Jan2015 500 sets on sale-I think Colleen is one of the best fsl digitizers around. I have done a lot of these, and even the most delicate looking do not need blocking when drying. The angel doily is one of my favorites to do, and the battenburg snowfl

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[1] threadsnscissors

www.threadsnscissors.com

5 23 Jan 2015