I’ve been working my way through all of the projects that I brought with to work on.  Primarily I have cross stitch with.  I finished one that was just started.  I finished one that had a little bit left.  I started one and am over half way finished.

On Friday night I pulled out the other projects I had and was looking at was left to work on.  I ended up starting one only to realize that I hated the color of the fabric.  UGH.  It’s all I had with to work on.  I was a little bummed and moved on. I can always work on my English paper piecing.  I have it with and I enjoy that as well.

From there I ended up having some free time while Hubby was sleeping so I watch an episode of Flosstube with Priscilla and Chelsea on youtube.  It’s become a favorite of mine.  They were talking about cross stitch fabric and mentioned that they coffee-tea dye all of their fabric.  Hmm.

After watching that I went back to check in on Kramer.  I walked past the family lounge when an
idea hit me….I went to Hubby’s room and was soon back at the family lounge.

See the coffee machine?

See the tea?

You guessed it….I was going to coffee tea dye my cross stitch fabric in the family lounge.  I even had something to stir with….

My fabric is in the first picture with the coffee machine.  it was really light.  For one of the projects I was suppose to stitch snowmen.  They wouldn’t show up on that light fabric so dying the pieces was necessary.

Here’s what I did….

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Since I’ve been cross stitching more lately, I have been on line looking at more of it too.  Why I do that…I’m not sure.  I should just sit and work on what I already have.  Anyway, in the fall I was online and ended up seeing the website Zappy Dots.

I ended up seeing something there called a “Needle Nanny”.  I saw other cross stitchers talking about them and ended up ordering one….

There are LOTS to choose from.  I ended up picking this one.  It’s made using a cross stitch design from Lizzie Kate the cross stitch designer I really like.

The Needle Nanny is a decorative super strong magnet.  The purpose of it is to hold a needle for small scissors….Here it is holding mine.

The magnet is SUPER strong.

Here’s a picture I hijacked from their website.  They make them for quilters too.

See how the magnet is attached to this gals jean jacket.  It doesn’t make a hole in clothing AND it holds pins or a scissors so they are close at hand.  I adore mine and use it lots.  I ended up ordering one for Kelli…and one for a couple others as gifts.

Kelli wants to someday stitch this…

It turns out Zappy Dots had a Needle Nanny of this piece so I ordered one for Kelli.

Well fast forward to a couple weeks ago.  I was stitching.  This is what I use do hold my charts…t …

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