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Lately, I've been enjoying so much browsing pictures of cross stitch in Instagram. Looking at the photos keep me motivated in my stitching. Just wondering what your instagram names/accounts are...

Mine is: tonisantos99

What's yours?

I think for most samplers, you can use Aida if you want. It might be harder to do fractionals, but a nice sharp needle can easily pierce Aida threads. I stitch on linen and evenweaves, and I've found it's often easier to see the threads and holes in the evenweave, even when the count is the same. A ...

Thank you so much for all your replies. Really appreciate them. I will look into your suggestions.

Thank you Wendy for your immediate reply. I am from the Philippines and the LNS here does carry some of what you have mentioned. I will try maybe a small sampler first to see how it will turn out.

Hugs to you!

Hi! It's been so long since I posted here. Life was so busy specially work that I miss this place so much.

Currently, I am stitching a Little House Needleworks pattern on linen. Though I love stitching on it, it is causing strain on my eyes. I have some samplers that I wanted to stitch and am ...

I really don't care what the back looks like as long as the front looks good and the coverage is good! That's why you'll never see me posting pics on the Show Your Backside thread, lol!! :D

Same here Dana! I never care how my back looks like as long as my front looks fine. And I never show my ...

Toni.. when the time comes, I am absolutely going to borrow your homemade needle organizer idea. I don't hate Hate HATE threading needles.. but I can see how much faster it is.
The design I was working on last week has 2 shades of green. Its a Christmas Holly type border and I was switching ...

The Hummingbird is gorgeous. If not for the backstitch, I will love doing it

Carole, your bookmark is lovely, specially the stitching (white) on the sides

One of these days, I might enroll in our local hardanger lesson Mabel, and that's because of your beautiful works! All of them are awesome!

Looking forward to seeing more

She's a beauty, you've done a fabulous job! And only 12 pages to go... Congratulations!

Awesome! Looking forward to the finished piece!

Welcome back dear!

Your tension looks fine to me. Actually, when I first saw it, it looks tight. I think for afghans, loose tension is okay since tighter tension will make the afghan hard. Just my opinion

You're having great progress Agi. I just learned crochet last February, I think, and now, I'm so much addicted to it.

Lovely cards Agi!

If I will show my back, everyone will have a heart attack

I think doing all of the Celtic Ladies in the same color fabric will be fine

I really like this blog about the Celtic Ladies:

http://celticladysal.blogspot.com/" target="_blank

I used to hate so much the re-threading of needles until I used needle threaders and my homemade needle organizer. Now it's easier specially with those blended/tweeded threads.

You can see the my favorite Dritz needle threader here, second photo:

http://toni-favoritethings.blogspot.com/2011/05 ...