Santa is having fun

Santa said he is having fun helping me with the give-away! Jolly old guy!!!!

Floss give-away

And there will be pinks....greens....blues..yellows......purples......lavender......cherries.....reds......

and pumpkins according to Shari.......

40 skeins, 800 yards of floss in assorted colors would be great.....but I think it will be greater!
Tell your friends! Everyone gets a chance to win.

The drawing will be Christmas day.There will be other ways you can have your name added more than once....I will tell you tomorrow! Curious?????????

LOOKING AT THE NUMBER OF LADIES SIGNING UP....I THINK WE NEED A SECOND PLACE PRIZE! DEFINATELY!!!!!

I'll give you a hint.....

A friend asked me to give her a hint of what was in the give-away...I told her 10 skeins, 200 yards  of floss would be nice...but not near nice enough. 20 skeins, 400 yards of floss would be nice...but not near nice enough. I thought 30 skeins, 600 yards of floss would be more generous...but not generous enough.......

Christmas floss give-away

Tomorrow I will announce the details of the Christmas floss give-away....I think you are going to love this one.....everyone who is signed up as a follower of my blog will have a chance to win.
Here comes Santa Claus....Here comes Santa Claus.........
Nancy

From start to finish

I often have requests for custom mottoes. A gentleman emailed me to say he wanted a motto with an antique steam engine in it...and the motto to read Train up a child in the way he should go. They are expecting their first child. I love to do custom mottoes...some are more challenging than others as you can imagine. I did this pattern in a couple hours, transferred it to the perforated paper (secret recipe) and had it stitched in less than 7 hours. That is what I love about working on perforated paper with these mottoes because you just fill in between the lines...the satin stitch I use on my mottoes stitches so quickly! I am not a patient person...just ask my family...no, better not....lets not go there...back to the motto...the kits are easy and fun to stitch. I did counted cross stitch for 30 years...giving my age away....and I wanted a quicker way to stitch. Perforated paper mottoes were the answer for me. I recently started doing charts for my motto samplers and will be adding them to my inventory all next year. Making charts is time consuming to say the least...but I wanted to offer charts for all the cross stitchers.
Train motto is stitched with my over-dyed floss. Very subtle changes in these colors as per the customers request.

I just thought I would share my latest project with you and explain a little about stitching on perforated paper if you havn't tried it. Thanks for "listening"!

Thank you for the warm welcome

I appreciate the warm welcome I am receiving from all you ladies...it is greatly appreciated as you are. I will show my appreciation soon...with a floss give-away. Now I need to think of something great....after all...it's almost Christmas!
Nancy

Over dyed floss

I guess I will start at the beginning and tell you about my floss. When I first started selling my motto kits I was using over dyed floss from other companies. The dye lots were so inconsistant that I thought I could do better. I have dyed floss for about 4 years now....I do limited editions so I am always adding new colors.

I wanted to offer affordable floss to my friends and customers. I thought $2-3 for 4-10 yards of floss was  too much....and I wanted to offer a generous amout of floss so I did 20 yard skeins for $2 each. Money isn't the most important thing to me.....people are. My decision was a good one...and I have a lot of gals who buy my floss on a regular basis.

After I get this blog all sorted out...and it will take a little while so please be patient with me....I will start to do some give-aways with floss. I love to share!

Thank you for stopping by.
Nancy

Just beginning the blog...thank you for your patience

I have had many requests to start a blog so here I go...trying to find the time will be a challenge as I already work 7 days a week! I have met so many dear friends all over the globe and I thank them for the inspiration that they have given me. I hope we can have a great time together on the blog.

Nancy