Tag: cross stitch
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Traveling is such a drag
The drag factor determines how much we pack for a trip. The older we get, the less drag we want. Take our trip to England last year, for example. The roller on one of the suitcases failed to roll just as we began dragging it from Heathrow airport to the train, up the stairs, to…
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Help me! I can’t stop
One, just one. That’s all it took to set me on a path of construction from which I may never recover. It started at a house with junk strewn around the front and into the garage. It looked all so innocent, but hidden in the heap lurked my addictive component: One matted and framed Precious…
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the quandry of quilting
If I would just keep my mouth shut, I could save myself a lot of work. But no, I had to tell my parents about the quilt family members assembled for my neighbor’s 50th wedding anniversary. It had foot square blocks with an different embroidered picture for each family member. With my grandparents’ golden wedding…
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stitching sisters
Guilty as charged. My sister just knew she could ask me for a cross stitch pattern of a dog or a puppy and I would find one. She was right. I found dogs in my file marked animals and puppy patterns in the file of baby projects. Fortunately, I did not have to rummage through…