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So I spent the whole day getting to know my machine. It was a love hate relationship, and nothing seemed to go right at first. I first chose my pattern from Urban Threads. I love their stuff! I chose an 8 color cherry blossom tree. I got all set up. I ironed on my stabilizer, and chose my thread.   It went pretty badly from there. Thread kept breaking, the white thread from the bobbing underneath started coming through, my bobbing ran out of thread. It kept going. There's a pile threads on my craft desk that look like some...

We are carrying the full line of the solid DMC. We got our inventory from Emeline & Annabelle's close out sale. We are sorting through and taking inventory to make sure we know how many of each thread we have. It is a big project with 454 solid colours! Here is a picture of about 25% of the stock! Soon they will all be counted! **images lost in the transfer**

We are finally launching tonight! That's right. Tonight at Midnight, the store is finally open for business. To celebrate, we are offering 20% off for the whole weekend! Just enter coupon code 20THANKS when checking out and save! Some items in the store are unique, and once they sell out we won't be able to get them again, like the Tibetan Beads and some of the Thai Silver. We'll have great holiday options as well, like finished pieces of jewelry that are one of a kind, kits for earrings and tools for the crafters and sewing fans in your life....

We have set up some simple earring kits for you in the shop. There a few colour options to choose from. Here are the instruction for the simple looped earrings. They are 3 tiered. You can always make them 2 tiered or single tiered if you like! To get nice round loops, it take a bit of practice and a few tricks. Step#1 - Take a headpin and slide one a bead. Step#2 - Bend the headpin to 90 degrees (Depending on the headpin, you can this with your fingers or with chain nose pliers) Step#3 - At this point,...