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Soft Flex Glass Art and Bead Festival – New York City

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It’s held October 15-17 and Soft Flex beading wire is the sponsor. It’s the New York City edition of their events, Glass Art and Bead Festival. They hold these bead shows in Hawaii and New York…here’s the location information.

Fashion Institute of Technology Campus
Campus Conference Center / John E. Reeves Great Hall
Entrance on West 28th Street between 7th & 8th Ave
New York, NY 10001
Penn Station is about 4 blocks away
Metro Red Line 1 & 2 available at 28th St./7th Ave.

The Soft Flex people are awesome and I love their beading wire…and their shows, awesome. If you’re in the New York area go check it out. Also check out their show schedules to find out where they’ll be selling their line of products.

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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]