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15 Books To Read Your Kids While You’re Stuck At Home

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Everyone is stuck at home with either shelter in place or stay at home orders right now. While it might seem like this time will never end, have hope and find ways to make the most of your time at home!

One way we are doing this is by reading more books! There are so many great kindle books, audiobooks, and other easily accessible books you can read to your kids without ever leaving the house! You can read these books to your kids for a fun storytime, or even help your kids read these books if they are more advanced readers.

A Wrinkle in Time
Little House on the Prairie
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Little Women
Bridge to Terabithia
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Charlotte’s Web
Madeline
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Coraline
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

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How to Manage a Large Piece of Cross Stitch Fabric

I am known to be really paranoid when it comes to cutting cross stitch fabric for a project. I will math it out, count, recount, think about it, worry, decide it needs to be bigger than math plus my already large margin for error suggests. If I could just be confident in choosing the correct size of fabric I’d have a lot more stitching time!

Sometimes you have a lot of extra fabric beyond where you are stitching because your fabric is too big. Or maybe you’re just working on a big project that leaves excess fabric potentially in your way when you are stitching. 

Hannah Hand Makes has a post all about how to deal with excess fabric on the sides of a large cross stitch project (which is actually a podcast if you’d rather listen). She is talking more about huge stitchalong projects where you need a big piece of fabric than my particular problem of timid cutting, but the same advice applies. 

I am lazy and don’t want to buy new products, so I would probably devise some sort of rolling and clamping situation with items I already have in the house, but she has some great tips for actual products you can buy that will help with this situation such as large hoops, standing frames and scroll frames. One of these solutions would certainly be worth the investment if you’re doing a year long (or otherwise long term) stitchalong or really big project where that excess fabric is going to cause problems. 

Because beyond being annoying, odds are good I’m going to end up stitching right through that extra fabric and making a big mess. 

Check out all the tips for working with a really big piece of cross stitch fabric over at Hannah Hand Makes. 

What’s the biggest cross stitch project you’ve ever made? I’d love to hear all about it!

[Photo: Hannah Hand Makes]