Have you ever ....

[Laura Stabler]

...been looking through your floss stash, seen a color that just really
strikes your fancy at that moment and then furiously pawed through your
stash to find a chart that uses that color, just so you could stitch with
it? Or, am I odd? :)

--
Laura (remove .ie to email me)

WIP: Harvest Moon - Shepherd's Bush, "Little Lambs/My ABC's/Hush Little
Baby" - JBW Designs (as a birth sampler), Fairy Moon - Mirabilia, Becky
Waldrop angel trio (soon), The Desiderata -- Indigo Rose (soon)

[Sally Thompson]

> From: lsta...@earthlink.net.ie (Laura Stabler)
> Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net
> Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles.needlework
> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:22:07 GMT
> Subject: Have you ever ....

>
> ...been looking through your floss stash, seen a color that just really
> strikes your fancy at that moment and then furiously pawed through your
> stash to find a chart that uses that color, just so you could stitch with
> it? Or, am I odd? :)
>
> --
> Laura (remove .ie to email me)

oh boy, Laura.... <G>..... when you start coming at things from that
direction, you might have to start thinking of designing! <BG>

Sally

[amers]

I do that. I also frequently change colors on designs for a variety of
reasons (most recently because the motif a friend picked out for her baby
boy's bib was all in shades of pink!). Another thing is I'll buy skeins of
floss because I like the color without the slightest idea why I'll need them
;)

-Amy

[shmily]

I do that with my Soie d'Alger.

Norma

Laura Stabler <lsta...@earthlink.net.ie> wrote in message
news:MPG.13d7e0aa7...@news.earthlink.net...

> ...been looking through your floss stash, seen a color that just really
> strikes your fancy at that moment and then furiously pawed through your
> stash to find a chart that uses that color, just so you could stitch with
> it? Or, am I odd? :)
>
> --
> Laura (remove .ie to email me)
>

[Deb Wise]

I did that with a shade of blue that I just had to have in my kitchen. I
picked a pattern that was actually a filet crochet chart and did it in cross
stitch in the one shade of blue. It looks terrific.
You're not alone.
Deb Wise

[Dawne Peterson]

Some of the British magazines have small patterns which they suggest can use
up any threads you have on hand--I do use these either to try out colour
combinations or to indulge in favourite colours.
Dawne

[maestra...@hotmail.com]

I keep overedged 6"X6" squares of every color of 28-ct Linen or
evenweave that strikes my fancy. (My darling LNS-owner keeps baskets of
these around the shop they range from 98 cents to about $1.30) and when
I suddenly get "in the mood" for a particular color, I dig one of those
out and just start stitching. Sometimes I use Eileen Bennet's specialty
stitches books and sometimes I just "doodle." (By the time you've been
stitching repeat pattern borders and such a while, you have a
surprising number of vines and flowers memorized;). I also use some of
the great "Sampler Motif" books I have.

I now have 28 scissor fobs for my TWO decent pairs of scissors!

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