spendlove — Cute Embroidery

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My new duck billed applique scissors just came in the post. They look fearsome weapons, must go and play.

14 04 Apr 2014

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Any thoughts about this weeks Great British Sewing Bee? I think the right person was eliminated although I was sorry to see her go. (Lack of name is in case Dennis hasn't seen it yet. Would hate to spoil it for him!)

7 02 Apr 2014

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"Rosakent" and I have seen a demonstration of the new Janome 15000 machine today. So impressive, but sooooooooooooo expensive! Has anyone else been tempted?

7 01 Apr 2014

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by spendlove in Community

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I found a whole blog about collecting scissors.

1 links:

[1] Blog here

queersheers.blogspot.co.uk

13 27 Mar 2014

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by spendlove in Community

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Here we all are at the NEC in Birmingham yesterday. (Not sure what the joke was!) Left to right, gillemmerson, me, rosakent, newrecruit and, in front eggyannie. New recruit is my big sister Pat who is learning to use our late

28 21 Mar 2014

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I don't normally get excited about flowers, but I've just noticed that I'm coming up to 88888 which, in old fashioned bingo callers language, would be five fat ladies!

28 06 Mar 2014

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Frying pans at the ready everyone. Anyone racing today?

20 04 Mar 2014

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by spendlove in Community

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Gerry's Decaf embroidery is now in the Urban Threads Flickr gallery as is my Engraved Rose biscornu. Aren't we the bee's knees?

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[1] http://www.flickr.com/groups/urbanthreads/

www.flickr.com

15 03 Mar 2014

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Never, they say. A tailor, a firefighter, a prison officer AND a teacher "Never", they say Scientific, artistic, intelligent and practical "Never", they say So kind, so caring, so generous and so warm hearted "Never", t

17 21 Feb 2014

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Ann Scott 8th February 1957 - 13th February 2014 AKA Cutie "scottie 0930" AKA "Mad Ann" (In my house at any rate.) Ann was born into a wandering RAF family, but when her father died suddenly, her Mother took Ann and her brother back to Hul

66 13 Feb 2014

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Spare a thought for Caroline (asterixsew). I haven't heard anything from her for a couple of days and I suspect she is without electricity and telephone due to the storms we are suffering. No sewing!

13 13 Feb 2014

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This is a pizza that thinks it is a birthday cake. The base is gingerbread and the topping is glace cherries, blanched almonds, slivers of dried apricot and grated marzipan (the cheese!) All drizzled with icing. This is for daughter Kate's birthday. I wo

13 13 Feb 2014

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Copyright question. That rather nice tied heart pincushion could be a fun ITH project. The pattern is available from more that one source on the web so who, if anyone, can claim any kind of copyright to it? I've emailed one of the sources, but had no res

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[1] http://www.cuteembroidery.com/9550268_does-anyone-here-know-where.html

www.cuteembroidery.com

9 09 Feb 2014

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by spendlove in Community

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I've just started to get into the Embird Font Engine instead of EFP, but there are some features I'm not keen on. Could someone with more experience than I have, tell me how to get rid of the stitched connections between the letters? Pretty please.

4 05 Feb 2014

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by spendlove in Community

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This amazing Cute Community of ours. Just a couple of days after Christmas I emailed some of my Cute Sisters in Stitching to ask for their help. I wanted to make a quilt for my Friend Ann (scottie0930) who is unwell. Within 3 days, (includi

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[1] picture in projects section.

www.cuteembroidery.com

26 03 Feb 2014