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Thank you for the warm welcome Karen. What I love about embroidery is that when you are through, your piece becomes a picture. For years now I have been telling myself a big lie. That is, I am going to learn counted stitch. Everyone tells me it is easy. I should learn it before I really need help fr...

So glad I found this site. I have been doing embroidering since childhood. My father taught me. He learned from his mother. Yeah, he was a Mama's boy. I have designed several pieces that I made as gifts. I made a clock designed by Julie Eisenhower. It required just about every stitch known to embroi...

I use a real fine point Pilot pen and plastic flat bobbins. I write the number of the thread and then wind the thread around it. I have two large plastic lidded boxes with sections in it. I arrange my bobbins in order of color with the palest first and down to the darkest in the same color range. Th...