Okay, while attempting to find the proper spelling of Leavitt-Imblum, I stumbled across Erica's Stitching Page. Wow. She's won ten ribbons for her stitching (so far), and finished a SLEW of TW's, Corbetts, Vermillion-Giampas, Leavitt-Imblums, etc.

Seriously, go see!

Okay, in the "Well, someone was going to do it someday probably" category, we have The Knitted Motorcyle. Yes, you read that out. A Motorcycle that will Never Be Cold.

Thanks to claireej for the pointer.

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So, there I was last night in the local Michael's, minding my own business (which, at the time, was to get some open-loop stitch markers). I got the stitch markers, decided to get a row counter (useful things, those, and save wear-and-tear on my poor little brain cells), picked up five skeins of the new DMC "Variations" floss (everything with ( Read more... )

For the cross-stitchers/canvasworkers out there: Thanks to my LNS, which now has its own YahooGroup (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scarletthread/, I have a one-entry resource for "how do I do that stich, anyway?" which is going straight into the Memories so I can find it. But since y'all might find it useful, too, here it is...

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Okay, so I finally hit the VS website (since I didn't, and won't, get to the east-coast trunk show) and got all the stuff I was going to get at the show: The "Forever and Always" sampler kit (which, as it turns out, is an online exclusive); Yvonne's "Christmas Roses" leaflet & accessory pack; and a Heart Kit for every state I've lived in (I'll be ( Read more... )