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SKIL OMT

On CraftGossip, at the moment, we are running lots of giveaways for some fabulous prizes. Look at what all you can win:

— A copy of Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Business edition

— A stunning Nino Bossi Top Zip Hippo Bag

— An Allure salad bowl in white pearl

— SKIL’s new oscillating multi tasker tool

— 3 month subscription to the Cricut Magazine and Cricut Book idea series

— Baby Chick Designs fine art tutu

And a couple more. Make sure you check them all out and get your entry in before they expire!

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Comments

  7. I would love to have Skils oscillating multi tasker tool. I have been drooling over one ever time I go to a home improvement store. All the giveaways are super though.

  8. I always check out the tools section of any store that carries them. I’ve been looking at the multitasking tool for awhile

Have you read?

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]