killiecrankie — Cute Embroidery

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by killiecrankie in Community

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This photo of a Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo was taken earlier this year in our back yard.A few days before this was taken a pair of these birds were drinking out of the bird bath just before sunset. This one was ,one of 4 birds that arrive

10 17 Mar 2018

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by killiecrankie in Project

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Great Dane hand towel .Design from Embroidery library. I forgot to change the sewing foot to the embroidery foot,only noticed I had the wrong foot on when the bobbin ran out about 500sts from finishing the design. Luckily it still sewed out perfectl

9 28 Jan 2018

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by killiecrankie in Community

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I have a machine embroidery design which I've had for years.Now it seems to miss some rows of stitches.It use to sew out perfectly.Can someone tell me what is causing this? Machine has been serviced,needle changed & bobbin area cleaned & vacuumed,it alwa

4 28 Jan 2018

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by killiecrankie in Community

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Polyester canvas shopping bags. Free plastic bags are supposed to be phased out this year ,so I hope these will sell. Second photo is the same bag as in the first bag but has a large press stud sewn on the sides to make the bag smaller when empty.

12 28 Jan 2018

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by killiecrankie in Project

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Rose mug rugs from Elsa Designs which are lovely but the pansy faces just make you smile & are my favourites. Elsas designs are on sale 50% off.

1 links:

[1] http://www.oregonpatchworks.com/collections.php?id=elsa

www.oregonpatchworks.com

10 16 Dec 2017

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by killiecrankie in Project

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I've made so many of these pansies which have been put into cards that I've lost count. The designs are from Elsa's Designs. At times I found I had a few odd basting sts which managed to show throug

1 links:

[1] http://www.oregonpatchworks.com/collections.php?id=elsa

www.oregonpatchworks.com

21 16 Dec 2017

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by killiecrankie in Community

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I've been so good at not buying fabric,using up my stash. Today tiding up all the shade cloth that had been protecting our plants from the very hot summer & had been taken down by me & thrown roughly folded into the wheel barrow in the shed because it

8 08 Apr 2017

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by killiecrankie in Community

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While looking for a photo,I came across some photos taken with a Kodak version of Polaroid camera.I vaguely remember reading something about not cutting these photos up.Has anyone else ,cut this type of photo up ? They have gone the colour of dried blood

3 20 Mar 2017

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by killiecrankie in Project

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American short haired cat silhouette hand towel.Design from Embroidery Library

10 11 Mar 2017

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by killiecrankie in Community

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How is this for over packing a item.The box is 6x4x9 inches & would fit at least a dozen more of the item ,shown.There was nothing else in the box,just glad it was free postage.Usually this type of item arrives in a padded envelope.

8 10 Mar 2017

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by killiecrankie in Project

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American short haired cat from Embroidery Library hand towel.There were 4 cat sketches in the design but I only used the head ,trying to get the colours right so it looked like a tabby cat.

27 10 Mar 2017

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by killiecrankie in Project

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Owl tea towels a present .Owl designs are from Embroidery Library -Owl days of the week but I cut out the day names & changed all the colours to black. The owl head is from Nicoles Designs.I was having trouble with the black thread ,so when the design

16 16 Feb 2017

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by killiecrankie in Community

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Reading a story in todays Herald about our extreme hot weather yesterday,it stated one US weather service reported that the top 15 maximum temperatures in the world were in Australia.No wonder everyone is so hot.

3 13 Feb 2017

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by killiecrankie in Community

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Gandalf has found the purrfect place to escape the extreme heat.It's between the 5000 litre water tank which is covered with a out of control passion fruit vine & the fence.As the sun comes round he just moved down further the pavers. Our dog on the

10 13 Feb 2017

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by killiecrankie in Community

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I am thinking about buying a mini vacuum unit which attaches to a vacuum cleaner to use to clean my sewing machines. I was wondering if anyone else has one & what do you think of it ? Does it do a good job on cleaning a sewing machine ? I can see no probl

8 17 Jan 2017