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Well, I did a little shopping at Nordic Needle when I was in Fargo ND last weekend. I was mainly looking for fabrics as those are something I much prefer buying in person than trusting online descriptions. Suprisingly, their fabric selection was a bit basic. Mostly shades of whites and beiges.
But, I did manage to make a few purchases- how can you not when you're at the Nordic Needle. The fabric and thread will be made into a hardanger project I have in mind to go in the bottom of my mothers china cabinet. It was probably a good thing I didn't have much time to shop- that store is dangerous.

Beautiful stash Maggie--how lucky you were to go to Nordic Needle--I'm sure it was a fabulous place to visit!!

I echo Karen's sentiments, lucky you! Looking forward to what you'll be doing with them.

Mabel Figworthy wrote:I echo Karen's sentiments, lucky you! Looking forward to what you'll be doing with them.

me too.

Carole

Those are great projects I love them all and would get them but I have to be careful of spending as it is the holidays and also have to save for personal issues.

I did buy myself a couple things from MaryMaxim
This adorable clock

And this pattern Kit on plastic canvas

Those are really great Rose. You must have more snowmen than anyone else in California!

Carole

Got a piece of fabric from Needleworker's Delight, except they sent me the wrong item--instead of the opal I requested they sent me a regular. So now I have to send it back so they can make the exchange

Love looking at everything everyone has gotten! Can't wait to see what you do with it all!

Hope they send it back quickly!

My Cross Stitch Crazy mag subscription arrived this morning, so I've been flicking through it. There are some lovely designs in it and for once I really like the designs for cover kit too!

Oh Rose your snowmen are gorgeous, both the clock and the stitchy ones!

I love the snowmen ,never seen a snowman clock, great idea

Not yet, but I just got an update email from Kate at Sparklies to say my fabrics are ready to ship

Yay, my fabrics arrived ! Moonlighting ( a deep blue), Summer Skies (light blue & white) and Gingerbread (pink & light brown). I'll take a picture later today.

Oh well, I couldn't resist taking a picture right away -- here theyare:

Those are lovely fabrics, Mabel. Are they already designated for specific designs?

Carole

- especially the middle fabric!

Well, the light blue one (or perhaps the middle one) will have a very bright and colourful design of toy windmills on it, and the pink/brown one something for myself with Oliver Twists threads (don't know what yet). I'm sure I'll think of something for the remaining one !

Oh those snowmen are fabulous Rose and Mabel your fabric is very nice!!!

Gorgeous fabric!

The postman brought these the same day as he brought my Stashmas parcel but I've just got around to photographing them.

They are 72 each of 4 different colour Swarovski 4mm bicones:


Technically they are not for stitching - but I will be using them with needles and thread so it is close to stitching!

I have a lovely orange zircon necklace (a present from my parents for my 30th birthday last year, the zircon was the first gemstone I found), and I've had trouble finding a bracelet or earrings to wear with it. Then at the craft show in October I did a class in which we made a bracelet using Swarovski crystals (pictured below). I thought if I could get some crystals in a similar colour to the zircon I could then make another bracelet and maybe some earrings as well. The two colours that I plan to use are the bottom ones on the left along with the top ones on the right.


And yes the bracelet has broken, but that's okay because I was planning on redoing it as I had made a few errors when I first made it and the clasps on the end had tarnished really quickly and I wanted to replace them as well. Now I just have to work out what colour to make the Delica beads (I don't think the gold ones used in the green bracelet will work )