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They're beautiful!
lisak09
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Thanks!
Marionnette
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You guys do beautiful work.. I crochet, knit, cross-stitch and sew mostly children's garments. This is a baby blanket I crocheted for my granddaughter.
And this is a dress I sewed for Easter using a pattern and fabrics from the 1990's.
And this is a dress I sewed for Easter using a pattern and fabrics from the 1990's.
lisak09
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So pretty!
Marionnette
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I have a question for those of you who do cross-stitch. Have you ever encountered an embroidery floss that sheds lint and eventually breaks?
I'm working on a Christmas stocking for our next granddaughter. It's on 18-count navy blue aida cloth and this particular floss is a very pale blue. All of the other floss in the kit is very sturdy, although pretty much all of them leave a small amount of lint behind as I work the colors.
I don't tend to pull my stitches tightly, so I don't think I'm stressing the strands too much. The threads in this color seem to be thinner than the other colors. It's driving me crazy! I just hope that there's enough floss to complete the project after all of the broken threads ends that had to be woven in.
I'm working on a Christmas stocking for our next granddaughter. It's on 18-count navy blue aida cloth and this particular floss is a very pale blue. All of the other floss in the kit is very sturdy, although pretty much all of them leave a small amount of lint behind as I work the colors.
I don't tend to pull my stitches tightly, so I don't think I'm stressing the strands too much. The threads in this color seem to be thinner than the other colors. It's driving me crazy! I just hope that there's enough floss to complete the project after all of the broken threads ends that had to be woven in.
ajrwdwgirl
Premium Member
I haven't come across that with regular thread. I hate using the metallic threads, they seem to shed weird and break. I don't use kits much though. I tend to only use DMC floss, is there an equivalency number to try to replace it? Sometimes that is included in kits.
rshell68
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Gorgeous!!! I wish I could knit!!
lisak09
Well-Known Member
Thanks! I wish I could crochet as I've seen some nice patterns for blankets. I've looked at YouTube videos but it just looks so hard!!
Marionnette
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This is an old Dimensions stocking kit. The floss has Dimensions' numbers. I've found a website that has the equivalent DMC numbers but sometimes they don't quite match perfectly. I'll have to go through my cache of skeins to see if I have something close if I run out.
Songbird76
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Not really a craft project, but a hobby project, I guess? My husband got rid of our 2 bookcases downstairs and replaced them with one slightly bigger one and some other shelving units while my daughter and I were in Disney. He randomly shoved everything into the new bookcase with no organizational system. (And he put all MY books in the back and HIS books in front of them)
So, the government requires all students to read a certain number of books for their language exams. Each level of school has their own requirements for it, but there's a list of authors that any book written by that author is acceptible, and a supplemental list from which certain titles are acceptable. We had an information evening on Thursday for A's school and the English teacher said the school has 30 books from the list. 30. There are only about 25 kids in his year, but they have to read 4 books across last year and this year from this list....and the kids in the year below ALSO have to start reading from that list. Which means there are about 50 kids that need to read 4 books each and have 30 titles to choose from. ONE of the 4 books has to be from before 1900, of which the school's collection contains ONE book, and it's a Shakespeare. So 50 kids ages 15-17, all with autism, all non-native English speakers, have to share one copy of a Shakespeare? And the public library's English section isn't great either. It's a good thing mom is a book dragon! But this meant that the books needed to get organized ASAP. So this is how I've spent my weekend.
They are double-rowed and there's another bookcase upstairs full of my guilty pleasure books like Nora Roberts, Diana Gabaldon, Lucinda Riley, Sandra Brown, etc. But we came up with 120 titles from the list for the kids to borrow, so at least this year's class will have a more decent selection. And none of them will HAVE to read Shakespeare. They CAN....we have the complete works. But they don't HAVE to. They can read some Mark Twain, or Charles Dickens instead. There are no girls in A's class, and probably only 1 or two in the other classes, but I have all the Jane Austen and some Brontë if they'd rather. I know A has no interest in those. I'm also going to donate a couple books where I have more than one copy, like To Kill A Mockingbird and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. So then the school will have at least ONE more title from before 1900.
So, the government requires all students to read a certain number of books for their language exams. Each level of school has their own requirements for it, but there's a list of authors that any book written by that author is acceptible, and a supplemental list from which certain titles are acceptable. We had an information evening on Thursday for A's school and the English teacher said the school has 30 books from the list. 30. There are only about 25 kids in his year, but they have to read 4 books across last year and this year from this list....and the kids in the year below ALSO have to start reading from that list. Which means there are about 50 kids that need to read 4 books each and have 30 titles to choose from. ONE of the 4 books has to be from before 1900, of which the school's collection contains ONE book, and it's a Shakespeare. So 50 kids ages 15-17, all with autism, all non-native English speakers, have to share one copy of a Shakespeare? And the public library's English section isn't great either. It's a good thing mom is a book dragon! But this meant that the books needed to get organized ASAP. So this is how I've spent my weekend.
They are double-rowed and there's another bookcase upstairs full of my guilty pleasure books like Nora Roberts, Diana Gabaldon, Lucinda Riley, Sandra Brown, etc. But we came up with 120 titles from the list for the kids to borrow, so at least this year's class will have a more decent selection. And none of them will HAVE to read Shakespeare. They CAN....we have the complete works. But they don't HAVE to. They can read some Mark Twain, or Charles Dickens instead. There are no girls in A's class, and probably only 1 or two in the other classes, but I have all the Jane Austen and some Brontë if they'd rather. I know A has no interest in those. I'm also going to donate a couple books where I have more than one copy, like To Kill A Mockingbird and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. So then the school will have at least ONE more title from before 1900.
Songbird76
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That's super cute! I wish I had the patience for cross stitch/needle point, etc. I get frustrated that it takes so long before it starts looking like something.
So what will this grow up to be? A throw pillow, or a wall decoration, or ...?
erstwo
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That's the $10 question! I'm going to see what the shop recommends.
I also considered a disk as well (kind of like a huge flat ornament - I would have to choose a fabric for the back) that I could lean up against a little black 'halloween' spooky tree thing that I got from Target years ago.