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Franks is adorable! Nice work. Now that my daughter's treat bag is done, I need to get stitching on some card and ornament designs. Can't wait to see more!

Ok, I just couldn't go to bed without finishing the removal of the waste canvas. So now it's done! Love it!

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The stitching part of the Treats bag is complete...now for the tedious task of removing the waste canvas. I have to remind myself to have patience because I can loosen stitches if I pull to hard. Cutting out any extra bits I can seems to help. Second pic is a sneak peak of what it'll look like. Five...

That's why I start making lists and putting stuff in piles days before I leave on a trip! The lists (to pack & to do before leaving) help me so I don't forget anything whether it's charging cords for the electronics or putting everything together for the bird sitter & dog to go to the boardi...

I'm now halfway done with the "Treats" bag! It takes some effort to stitch on the canvas bag and I've stuck my finger with the needle more times than I care to count trying to poke the needle through the fabric. But I can't wait to finish it and strip off the waste canvas to see the final ...

It's looking fantastic! Your needle must be smoking!

Love your pumpkins Rose! Can't wait to see more!

Beautiful work as always! Love the detail in this one.

Dell laptops have a tool like that already built into the computer. It's called "snipping tool" and just like you said, it'll take a section of whatever is showing on your screen (you select size of the square or rectangle) and it saves as a jpeg I think. I use it all the time and love it.

Love love love your ornaments and the finishes! I've done a couple pillow ornaments but want to do more and try the flat fold as well. I've got a bunch of pieces waiting to be finished in some way now that my daughter's day care has started again for the school year. I have to pull out that sewing m...

Thanks Shannon! Great idea.

I saw Shannon's (aka LastingAllure on the forum) Halloween alphabet designs in the Nov 2014 issue of WOCS and decided to use it to create a trick-or-treating bag for my daughter. She's only 2 so she may not get much use out of it this year but I hope she loves it and uses it in her years to come. I ...

It looks wonderful! Great job!

Congrats on a great finish!

Everyone's mini's look great! Here's one I just finished. This is the Owl Candle Band from the Oct 2014 issue of JCS. I left off one owl on each side to fit my piece of fabric and I used 14 ct aida instead of the perforated paper it called for because I'm going to make a wall hanging or something li...

It certainly has more definition to it when I compare it to yesterday's pic. Nice work!

Nice work Karen, she's gorgeous!

That's amazing progress! Well done!

Also, if I chose one of the dithering techniques that has over 100 colors, the program will reduce it to 100 once I select that one to chart, which of course changes the appearance. And FYI - it does take my computer a minute or two to process the changes when I select a different dithering techniqu...

Ok...I spent about 40 min playing with this program. I'd say I'm an average person in terms of no special computer or graphic design skills. I have a 5 yr old laptop that runs Windows 7. Here's my experience: After downloading & unzipping the program, I searched the folder full of files for the ...