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Wow!  What a busy weekend!  I was actually off this past Friday, but I didn’t get to relax!  I met up with my friends Tracey and Terri and we were off cross-border shopping (again)!  I left my house at 7am and I didn’t get back until 10pm what a long day!  We hit up all the major stores and mall in Watertown N.Y. and swung by Wal Mart in Ogdensburg, N.Y

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July Stitching Get Together at Lynn’s

Its been a very long week with the extreme temperatures and humidity we’ve had here in the Ottawa area.  Temperatures have been in the mid 30′s all week long and it certainly has taken a toll on everyone.  I’ve not worked out this week because driving home in my greenhouse on wheels (aka no A/C in the car) left me feeling ill after the 25 minute drive.  I pretty much came home most evenings and

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The Week’s Progress

One of my challenges is taking photos of my projects for this site. I use my scanner sometimes and my camera other times. I usually take a lot of shots and get frustrated before it is all over

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Photographing Cross Stitch For Selling and Blogging

Happy Canada Day! Enhance your celebration with these simple motifs. The back stitch version would make a great pin . The Cross Stitch design will take a little longer to stitch and would be great for a bookmark or small ornament

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Canada Day Cross Stitch

Sandra Grauschopf, About.com Guide to Contests , is a very busy woman. Not only does she manage a top About.com site and have a busy family life, she also manages to finish quite a few Cross Stitch projects. She’s shared photos in the past for our Stitcher’s Photo Albums and recently she sent me a photo so I could see what her current project was looking like.

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Photo of the Week: Sandra’s WIP

Hot off the presses – new patterns for blackwork or back stitch. Stitch them with the floss colors of your choice. Of course, you can also fill in some of the areas in the pattern with cross stitches if you like

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Free Blackwork / Back Stitch Patterns

Is there a blog or website you visit regularly to find free Cross Stitch patterns? The members of the forum share their favorite sites regularly, so you can visit there to find out where they are hanging out. You can also Share Pattern Sources and tips for finding free patterns with other stitchers

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Share Sources of Free Cross Stitch Patterns

Unfortunately I don’t have a “before” picture for you this week, but let me assure you my dragon pretty much looked the same from last Sunday until this Saturday.  It was a busy week, and an exhausting one, I went to bed very early on several occasions which is very unlike me! On Saturday I finished off the backstitching on the 2nd quarter of Celestial Dragon, and officially had 1/2 of the

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Holy Stitching Batman!

I love looking for new patterns as much as the rest of you. And, the About.com Cross Stitch forum members are ever delighting in tempting me with patterns they find across the wide internet. US patterns, French patterns, Spanish patterns – no matter the origin, the language of Cross Stitch is the same

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Newest from About.com Needlepoint

The Column Pattern Collection is a great pattern for practicing whole cross stitches, tension, and also for trying out a floss new-to-you. Like the rest, Column Two is a single color, so it would also look magnificent on a piece of hand-dyed fabric or done in a variegated floss.

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Free Column Two Cross Stitch Pattern