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Tangled Thread - Tips, Trick and Tutorials in Sewing & Stitching

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June 26th, 2007

the joy of sewing rooms

Well, I don’t feel quite so bad about my 10′ X 10′ studio being messy now :-)
Check out the film that a young woman shot of her grandmother’s sewing room!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfU7UG8s4eQ
The clip should start playing automatically, if it doesn’t click the arrow on the screen.
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May 7th, 2007

what my studio floor looks like…

I’ve got several events this summer that I need to look a little dressier than my normal studio attire of blue jeans.  My brother is getting married in a couple of weeks, so I need a new outfit for his fiancee’s bridal shower, and then an outfit for the wedding itself.
I also want to make […]

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June 24th, 2006

Treasure Hunting

I do not know if this is a thing that is global, or just something that certain countries have a habit of doing. However, for everyone who is living in a place where people put their old/used/unwanted stuff on the drive/lawn/garage and then sell it for dirt cheap, the pleasant weather months mean Treasure […]

By Deb -- 7 comments

May 6th, 2006

Stash- floss and threads

For several years now I have used cardboard or plastic bobbins, and plastic bobbin boxes, to store my DMC flosses. I have the worst luck trying to just pull floss from the skein without it knotting, and when I started using the bobbins/boxes I didn’t even know there might be other storage systems available. […]

By Deb -- 2 comments

May 4th, 2006

What is that sound in my Stash?

That would be the sound of having forgotten to plan ahead, so that I could stitch some Mother’s Day things this year. Not that I am now unable to stitch such things, but I certainly won’t be able to locate patterns, cloth and floss, -and- do all the stitching/finishing, in time for Mother’s Day […]

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May 3rd, 2006

Dracolair

I have had my eye on the Rune Sampler from Dracolair Creations for quite a while. I ordered the chart and specialty pack on the 27th of April, and received it the 1st of May. No hassles, everything included in the order, nice quality chart. In a year or three, when I’ve […]

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April 28th, 2006

Needlework - making the most of your stash

As I was picking up seed beads out of the carpet last evening (my husband offered to get the shop vac, but I was concerned it would damage the beads), I was thinking of how I didn’t want to spend craft budget to replace an item in my stash instead of being able to buy […]

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