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Friday, January 1, 2010
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Happy New Year!

Planning Your Sewing Room

Whether you are adding onto your home, or reorganizing an existing space, before you start moving heavy furniture, plan things out on graph paper. Measure the room, including the placement of windows and doors. Using those measurements, make a scale drawing of the room. I like to use four squares to the foot (each square represents a 3" square), but any scale that makes sense to you is fine.

Measure all the furniture you have for your sewing room and use the same size graph paper to draw the furnishings. For example, a bookcase would be a little rectangle, a stool would be a small circle. Be sure to include your waste basket and any storage furniture. Label each piece before cutting them out.

Now you have little pieces of paper to move around before you test your back with moving the real things. Be sure to leave a little space between items (to allow for the baseboard or minor errors in measuring). Leave plenty of space to move around your cutting table.

If you are thinking of buying a new piece of furniture, check the dimensions, make a paper pattern, then see if it will fit. Save these bit of paper in a large envelope in case you move to a different room or buy a new home.

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from Mary Jane Allen of Perfect Little Stitches

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MOOSE B STITCHIN

HOME OF THE "IN THE HOOP" EMBROIDERY PROJECTS

FLASH DRIVE CASES 2
5x7 hoop
Set includes TWO sizes. The smaller case holds 6 of the Micro
Flash Drives. The larger case holds 10 of either size Flash Drives.
In the hoop NO SEW! BOTH CASES INCLUDED IN THIS SET.

Trapunto Delights

Redwork, vintage embroidery,
quilt designs

Teeny Squiggles 1 & 2

Squiggles are single-color
designs with no jump stitches
to slow you down. What a fun
way to add a little fashion
to something ordinary!

Half-price, today only!

Did you make resolutions this
year? There's a design for that!
This is just one of the collections
available at a money saving price
during the remodeling sale going
on at Platinum Embroidery right
now. If one of your resolutions
is to save money, you won't
want to miss this sale!

These "Angel of Light Earrings"
stitch out beautifully and make a
wonderful gift for any occasion.

They are found at the top of Page 6.

Designed by
Libby Lehman for quilting,
embroidery, bobbin,
binding, and appliqué.

50 original colors and
5 NEW colors of 60 wt.
lint-free polyester.

Melodies in Red

Happy New Year everyone!
May your new year be filled with
joy and laughter and song.

Jane wishes you
a Happy New Year.

Suggestion: start the New Year
with a set of Whirls. Use variegated
thread for extra "oomph."

Make a cute 'Baby Cake' & 'Baby Shake'
using Reen's free instructions and her adorable
BABY WRIST RATTLES SET.

The Wrist Rattle Set includes 8 fun baby designs.

Lambs and Pigs
in a Blanket

This "in the hoop" pattern gives
you 4 different head options (two
lambs and two pigs), different
blanket options and the best thing
is, these heads are inter-changeable
with the Two-headed Buddies in
a Blanket, making the possibilities
endless.

For 5x7 hoops.

Happy New Year!

NEW Romantic Sunbonnets
is a lovely set of 10 Sunbonnet
girls with an appliqué
background.

Introductory priced at 30% off
through January 10th.

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