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2011 Dichroic Art Contest by Coatings by Sandberg

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It’s time for another contest by CBS, Coatings by Sandberg, the best dichroic glass in the art glass world. Here’s what they have to say about the contest:

Coatings By Sandberg, Inc. is sponsoring our 5th annual contest using Dichroic Glass in an artistic or functional piece.  We will be accepting photographs of your art work and placing the winning photographs on our web site for the world to see what our talented customers create with our quality Dichroic Glass Coatings.

1st place winner will receive a $500 gift certificate towards CBS Dichroic glass.

2nd place winner will receive a $250 gift certificate towards CBS Dichroic glass.

3rd place winner will receive a $200 gift certificate towards CBS Dichroic glass.

(Runner-ups and honorable mention awards will also receive Dichroic Glass packs.)

Categories: Blown Glass, Lampworked Glass, Fused Glass, Glass Jewelry, Glass Sculpture, Glass Marbles, Architectural, and Miscellaneous.

Check out their site for the rules…I have to go run off to make something dichroic and cool to enter into the contest. Check out the first prize winner, that fab guitar in the picture!

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How to Store Embroidery Needles

I have a complicated relationship with my embroidery needles. Which is a fancy way of saying I don’t really take care of my needles at all. Even though I know I have embroidery needles to use for cross stitch and sewing, needles that are certainly still in their packages, I can rarely find them when I need them.

So when I saw this post from Crewel Ghoul about how to store your embroidery needles, it hit close to home for me.

It doesn’t really say anything I didn’t already know, but it is good advice that might also serve as a reminder for you to take better care of your needles when you cross stitch or do other hand-sewing projects so that you’ll be able to find your needles again when you need them.

It would help me a lot if I had a dedicated place to keep needles I’m not using, including the needles that are still in their packages from when I bought them. You’d think I would keep them with my embroidery floss but apparently you would be mistaken about that.

Another good idea for me is to have a place to put needles I’ve been using when I am done with them. Because goodness knows I’m not going to put them back in the package. (Which may actually be a good thing because then I know which one I’ve been using and which ones are fresh. Not that I replace my needles regularly, but still.) I own pincushions but I don’t really use them for anything, which is silly.

Check out the post at Crewel Ghoul to see all the options available for storing your embroidery needles properly. I’d love to hear what you do, especially if you have a better system than I do (which, honestly, would be any system at all).

[Photo: Crewel Ghoul]