It’s another book review and another giveaway!! Yay!! This one is a review for the newly released book, Creating Glass Beads by Jeri L. Warhaftig
. This book contains a bunch of really cool glass bead projects. I’m loving the Glass Momento bead that allows you to create a window to put a picture in once the bead has been finished. I’m also loving the Silver Butterfly bead which incorporates fine silver paste and the usage of a bead press. Both very helpful things to learn about. One of the coolest aspects of this book though is how Jeri brings in project testers, other bead makers, to give their spin on the projects in the book. Another very helpful addition. I highly recommend this book for both the beginner and the more advanced bead maker. Now if you’re interested in getting ahold of a copy of this fab book drop me a comment. Deadline for entries is next Friday, March 25th. And finally this giveaway is for US residents only. Thanks!!
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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]