Book sale – Craft Gossip

It took me about two minutes to qualify for free shipping at Connecting Threads online store – that’s how many great books they are offering up at 40% off from now until September 21, 2009. (sorry contiguous US only on the free shipping Web orders over $50)

There’s a good selection, these three titles found a home in my shopping cart.

As did these:

Wonderfully Whimsical Quilts by Carol Burniston
Free-Motion Quilting Made Easy by Eva A. Larkin
Thoroughly Modern Dresden by Anelie Belden
Artistic Photo Quilts by Charlotte Ziebarth
Blended Quilt Backgrounds by Jean Biddick
Folk-Art Favorites by Joined at the Hip
Intuitive Color & Design by Jean Wells
One Line at a Time by Charlotte Warr Andersen
Strip Therapy by Brenda Henning

Go here to see all books currently available at Connecting Threads.

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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]

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