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		<title>New and wonderful things</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe it has been nearly a month since I last wrote! So much has happened.  We&#8217;ve traveled more this summer than we have in the last five years. I am so excited to tell everyone that my husband and I have become the wholesale distributor for Squiggee Designs and GCHendrix!!  This was an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columbus Market Report:  Will continue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Columbus Market Reports will continue. We took Jacob to Six Flags for the weekend for his eighth birthday.  Being away from home for two weekends in a row has kicked my rear.  So, I still have lots to tell you about.  But it may take me a day or two more to recover.]]></description>
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		<title>Columbus Market Report:  Stirling Cases</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While at Columbus Market I also looked at the wide variety of items Stirling has available. Stirling has a wide variety of leather items.  They have openings designed for stitched needlepoint canvas.  I&#8217;ve never seem more than one or more pieces at a time.  It was a treat to see all the items available. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columbus Needlearts Market:  Barbara Bergsten</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another designer whose designs I&#8217;ve loved and admired is Barbara Bergsten.  Barbara has a lot of stitch painted designs that are convenient to use to teach particular stitches.  She has a huge gallery of stitch diagrams on her web pages and stitch guides for her pieces. Barbara is a beautiful woman with beautiful designs. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columbus Needlepoint Market: SharonG</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The absolutely fabulous SharonG was at the Needlears Market with her beautiful, beautiful line. One of the first painted canvas I ever worked was a SharonG design.  I don&#8217;t think I took picture of it because it was before the days of the digital cameras.  I stitched one of her perfume bottles entirely in basketweave. This was when I first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columbus Needlearts Market</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1534</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[TNNA Needlearts Market]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Good lord I am tired! Last Friday David, Jacob and I packed up and went to the Needlearts* Market in Columbus, Ohio put on by the TNNA arriving home late last night to rain, storms and flooding all over the State. As a short non-needlepoint related aside, I have to tell you how proud I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is why I love the Internets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 13:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to everyone who commented on my survey!  This was the first survey I&#8217;d done and I was amazed by all the votes I got. A little glitch in my survey was that I have no way (or I haven&#8217;t figured out a good way) of writing to thank everyone who voted because it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Gardening</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 13:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today we had more thunder storms.  Nothing like last week when we had all those tornadoes.  Today it was hail.  At our house it was tiny; pea sized.  Places  around the city were reporting golf ball sized  hail. I&#8217;ve added to the front flower bed. It is a Black &#38; Blue Salvia. I liked it so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bad Hair Day</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1508</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 13:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on this piece for Squiggee Designs. I&#8217;ve been working on her hair.  Now, I need some help deciding what I should do for her hair. I tried french knots using Fuzzy Stuff.  That wasn&#8217;t doing it for me.  Coverage wasn&#8217;t adequate and the fuzzy stuff was a little hard to make a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back From the Finishers</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1504</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 20:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got this piece back from the finishers last week. The French Knot did the finishing.  Reasonably priced and quick to boot.  I love this.  I just can&#8217;t say enough good things about the French Knot.  Maybe we&#8217;ll ride the train down and I can spend the afternoon with them after Jacob get&#8217;s out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a difference a year makes</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1498</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was the corner of my flower bed on May 3, 2009: This was my flowerbed on May 1, 2010.  I&#8217;ve not planted anything new, so the begonias are missing in this picture. The light green plant that is everywhere is Moneywart.  It&#8217;s really come on this Spring and has the potential to be invasive. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another 5K Coming Up</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1495</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 04:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 22nd of this month, I&#8217;m participating in the National Alliance for Mental Health&#8217;s Walk. I&#8217;ve signed up to help them raise money and will be participating in the walk along with my husband and son. With the downturn in the economy, mental health services have been cut to the bone and NAMI can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ibuprofen and ice are my new best friends</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1491</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good lord I am TIRED! Today I participated in a 5K race. I walked it. I didn&#8217;t make particularly good time. My Personal Trainer did the MARATHON in 3 hours and 46 minutes and I did 3.2 miles in about an hour. I was going to meet up with a friend who was also doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I did Last Night</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1483</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I decided, since I was almost finished anyway, that I should finish this piece. This is a sweet little piece by J. Malahy Designs.  Paula Fehleison who owns the French Knot in Fort Worth, Texas did the stitch guide and kitted it up. This is my 6th finish of the year. Yeah me!]]></description>
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		<title>Whining sometimes pays off</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one of the things I got in the mail today. This is a roll-up piece by Gail Hendrix of Squiggee Designs.  I&#8217;m going to stitch this to go along in her trunk shows.  Gail had it sent to me and I sent it to the lovely ladies at The Needlepointer to pick threads for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I heart Squiggee Designs</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1470</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been stitching. Nothing to write home about. Or really even to blog about. Navy blue sky with navy blue thread.  Sorry  I&#8217;ve got no pictures today. I&#8217;ve been stitching on The French Knot&#8217;s March 2010 Ornament of the Month. I&#8217;ve begun the navy blue sky.  I&#8217;ve finished the grass.  I love the stitchs Paula [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amy&#8217;s Newsletter</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1467</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The April e-newsletter from Amy&#8217;s Golden Strand is up. Go read about the new Melissa Shirley Halloween canvas Robin got as a gift for being such a kind and generous person.  I can&#8217;t wait to see what she does with it.  There is an update on the Halloweenies Project.  A large display of fun Spring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Red Magi</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1461</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[French Knot]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, I finished the Red Magi (except for the beads on the crown and the box but I&#8217;m calling it finished as of Sunday). I am not as pleased with the red robe as I have been with the way my stitching turned out on the other pieces.  I&#8217;d never done this stitch before. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Needlepoint purse</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1458</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this on someone else&#8217;s blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning. It&#8217;s a needlepoint purse, that the ad describes as: Craft couture—this innovative kit has everything you need to make your mark on the signature Fendi baguette. Get silly, get serious, get crafting. The entire bag is your blank canvas. Natural fabric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Purple Magi</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1449</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nativity Sets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebecca Wood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I finished this piece Saturday. This is the third piece in the set I&#8217;ve finished.  They have made up quickly, though I&#8217;d done all of sand and the sky on this one when I began working on it after I finished Joseph earlier last week. The light blue of the cape is done in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First Day of Spring</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1446</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This was the view from my front door looking out this morning: That&#8217;s not a picture I took in black and white.  It was just gray. This is from the top of the stairs looking at my front door: I really have had enough of this bad weather. Today is the official first day of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph is Done!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[French Knot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished this piece Sunday night.  It is the second piece out of this series I&#8217;ve finished.  Here is the first one I finished. It is the Joseph Ornament from Rebecca Wood&#8217;s Mini Nativity set.   The stitch guide and thread selections were done by Paula Fehleison of the French Knot. I&#8217;d gotten everything done [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sight is a terrible thing to waste</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Friday, I was in a meeting,  I reached up to adjust my glasses and they broke into two pieces. My husband and I were trying to remember how old those glasses were.  Probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 years.  Last time I was at the eye doctor, the fall of 2008, he told me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Results of My 15 Minutes a Day</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1426</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KS Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativity Sets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roll-ups]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is what I&#8217;ve been working on during my 15 minutes a day. This is one of a set by Kathy Schenkel.  I have 8 or 9 of the pieces; Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, three Wisemen, an Angel, a Camel.  I&#8217;ve had these pieces a long time but have started only on this one. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fifteen Minutes A Day</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1420</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started exercising again. I intended to quit smoking and re-start my exercise program for Lent.  With all the stuff that&#8217;s been going on in my life, I decided to reduce my smoking and re-start an exercise program.  I&#8217;m down to about 6 cigarettes, or less, a day most days and I&#8217;ve been lifting weights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsletter</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1414</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amy's Golden Strand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[June McKnight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kelly Clark Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newsletters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kelly Clark]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Amy&#8217;s Golden Strand has their March Newsletter out.  Go check it out!  I has a very good review of the K&#8217;s Creation Needlework Stands that I enjoyed,  an article about Kelly Clark&#8217;s Halloween series Amy has done the stitch guides for and a new book by June McKnight that I&#8217;m going to add to my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1411</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday morning, I walked out of my front door and found a blanket of snow on my front lawn.  It almost made me cry.  Here it is, almost March, and we STILL have snow. Yesterday, I went out, and found these in my front yard: Crocus.  They are always the first flower to arrive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can I call it a finish if I&#8217;ve not stitched the background?</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1397</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barbarg Bergsten Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Bergsten]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided the answer to the title question is &#8220;YES!&#8221; I finished this piece: On the 4th of February.  It was a very fun, fast piece to stitch. The Penguin is a Barbara Bergesten design.  I got the Penguin without anything across his belly and added the name and date using Barbara&#8217;s Letter Sheet and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Finish of the New Year!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1387</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bargello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Needlepoint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NewNeedlepoint]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since we&#8217;ve been going on 8 days without any sun shine, I decided to go ahead and photograph my newest finish with crappy in door light and be done with it! I know it is probably wrong to whine about the weather when half the county is getting hammered with unprecedented amounts of snow but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Needlepointers are Generous People</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1384</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been following the devastation that&#8217;s going on in Haiti.  It is simply heartbreaking. Jacob lost a tooth this week.  The Tooth Fairy gave him two dollars for it.  (Isn&#8217;t inflation awful, I think I got a quarter for a tooth when I was a kid.) This morning as Jacob left for school, he gave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting real with myself</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1381</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANG SOTM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sue Reed]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After much reflection, and studying the instructions, color schemes and schematic, I&#8217;ve decided not to undertake the ANG Stitch of the Monthy Mystery Project right now. My concerns are many. I don&#8217;t have a local store anymore.  My local store closed a year ago, and while it wasn&#8217;t a great store, it did have promise.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Anniversary</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1379</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today my husband and have been married 20 years. On the one hand I think &#8220;20 years!  Damn that&#8217;s a long time!&#8221; On the other hand, I think, &#8220;It can&#8217;t possibly be 20 years,&#8221; it seems like yesterday that we were dating. Or are those just two ways of saying the same thing? I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Jewels Tote Insert</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1365</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is what I worked on this Fall. Ain&#8217;t she lovely! I promised the marvelously talented Gail Hendrix I wouldn&#8217;t talk about it until she was ready for me to, so I was unusually quiet this fall. The plaid was done in Silk &#38; Ivory (one of my favorite threads),  The jewels and the braid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking New Years Resolutions</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1359</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG SOTM]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got e-mail today on the ANG Discussion List that the January 2010 Stitch of the Month was up. This year, like last, they are offering a mystery class.  Last year the piece was a Komino by Tony Miniero.  The first month gave the basic outline of the class, and the necessary supplies,  and each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Years Resolutions</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1351</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Coffelt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t make new years resolutions.   I&#8217;ve never been very good at keeping resolutions.  I think its better to set small goals, and then review once a month or so, how I am doing.  Not that I&#8217;m very good at that either. My goals this year are to: (1) Keep a simple project going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsletter</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1349</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1349#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just got an e-mail telling me that Amy&#8217;s Golden Strand has published their January 2010 newsletter. There&#8217;s a new needlepoint blog, Needlepoint Study Hall which appears that it will cover Kelly Clark&#8217;s Halloweenies Home Study that Amy Bunger has done. Go check it out!  It&#8217;s wonderful!]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1345</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket Full of Stitches</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1342</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1342#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I read with sadness that Pocket Full of Stitches in Lubbock, Texas is closing in the Spring. Last summer I went to their Time Out In Texas with Kelly Clark. There is so much I want from there.  If I could only get someone to pay me for stitching.]]></description>
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		<title>Back from the Finishers!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1333</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week I got my own little Christmas surprise from Michelle at Stitchery Square. Janet Casey&#8217;s Candy Cane Santa. This is a custom piece Gail Hendrix of Squiggee Designs did for me for a bloggy friend who&#8217;s had to bear more in that last year than any person should.  It is stitched in Vineyard Silk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And We Have Lights!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1326</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[But no ornaments.  Unless you count the alligator Jacob made this weekend.  I guess that&#8217;s an appropriate X-mas ornament if you live in&#8230;.New Orleans&#8230;or somewhere. Ornaments will come tomorrow night!]]></description>
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		<title>I can&#8217;t believe I blew it so early</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1323</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1323#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading some of my blogs while I ate lunch today, when I realized my stitching blog didn&#8217;t have anything posted yet. I went &#8220;ack!&#8221; and almost choked on my Lean Cuisine Panini.  Then I logged in and realized I&#8217;d just THOUGHT about stuff to post. I must have dreamed that I actually took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lowering my cholestoral</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1318</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1318#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Please note, while I am very good a Dr. Google, I am not a medical professional. Take everything I say here with a grain of salt and consult, oh you know, a real physician before you embark on any serious lifestyle changes. I thought I&#8217;d share with you what I&#8217;ve been doing to improve my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A stitching blog talking about everything but stitching</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1314</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1314#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided to participate in National Blog Posting Month aka NaBloPoMo.   I&#8217;d post one of those really kewl links on the side of my blog but I&#8217;m not entirely sure how. The way NaBloPoMo works is I&#8217;ve committed to posting every day during the month of November. It&#8217;s a take off of the National Novel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cholesterol</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1300</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1300#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I went in for my annual exam.  The doctor&#8217;s office called called with my cholesterol results. Total Cholesterol was 158; they want it below 200. Good Cholesterol (which I think is HDL) was 43; the nurse said they like to see it at 46 or above but Dr. Google says anything over 40 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unfairness of it all</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1298</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1298#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I dieted. I hate dieting.  I feel like I spend all my waking moments thinking about what else I can eat for the day. This time it was a little easier.  My husband joined me and he spent his time figuring out what we were going to eat. I lost 7 pounds. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halloween</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1305</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year the BoyChild decided to repeat last year&#8217;s performance and be a vampire for Halloween.  Apparently (I&#8217;m assuming because of those vampire movies and teenage romance books) so did everyone else. I was talking to the BoyChild about this before Halloween. He didn&#8217;t want to wear the teeth.  Do you have any idea how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Forward</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1291</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend David and I worked in the yard. The only real evidence of that is these which I put in pots on the front porch. Pretty dark burgundy and white pansies.  We&#8217;ve not had our first frost yet, but it&#8217;s near.  The pansies will take the cold and last long after everything else has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The next best thing</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1287</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been dieting.  Not something I normally do.  Not something I like to do.  It makes me feel deprived.  I feel like I spend my whole day thinking about what I&#8217;ve eaten or what I&#8217;m going to eat at my next meal.  But it&#8217;s been successful and my pants aren&#8217;t as tight as they were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autumn Leaves</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1280</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week my neighbors tree, almost over night it seemed, changed colors.  I went out to get into my car and was faced with this stunning speciman. None of our trees has turned all at the same time the way this one has.  Also, none of our trees have turned such a beautiful color. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church Kneelers</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1278</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just uploaded some more pictures to my flicker account.  I&#8217;ve taken these of the stained glass windows from my church for inspiration. I&#8217;m going to have some canvases painted for alter server kneelers. Anyone want to look at these pictures and make suggestions of what they should be? Father said he&#8217;d like to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Samoa</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1270</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in law school, I spent the summer between my first and second year in American Samoa.  The Samoans were some of the kindest, generous, friendliest people I&#8217;ve ever met. I have been reading about the tsunami that hit there this week and looking at the pictures on the internet.  These are places where I&#8217;ve been.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miss Vanity Mermaid has bling</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1268</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kelly Clark Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miss Vanity Mermaid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I added some bling to Miss Vanity Mermaid. I like the neck less.  I&#8217;m not crazy about the earrings.  I like the green gem on her crown surrounded by the beads. What do you think?]]></description>
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		<title>Help me choose the shoes!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1262</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Stitching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oh Internets! I need your wide breadth of knowledge! About a month ago, on August 1 to be exact, I went to the health club to exercise. While I&#8217;d not been doing as well as I did during Lent (I did sixty-six miles in 40 days and was sick when I started and had that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sponge Bob Square Pants</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1244</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I received in the mail from PFOS stitches this canvas: Isn&#8217;t he fabulous!?! Jacob is so excited!  He&#8217;s already pointed out to me the parts he wants to stitch. I&#8217;m going to troll through my stash to see what I&#8217;ve got I can use and then ask PFOS to pull the rest of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doesn&#8217;t this look fabulous?</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1248</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The above picture is the front flower bed as it was last weekend.  If you go to my flicker account and look at it larger, it looks even better. It&#8217;s hard to imagine that it started as this: Our little butterfly bush space went from this: to: The begonia&#8217;s just didn&#8217;t make it in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peppers!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1240</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t recall whether I told you about the small veggie garden we planted. Calling it a garden really seems too ambitious to me.  We planted a jalapeño pepper plant, a bell pepper plant and another kind of pepper plant that I&#8217;ve forgotten what kind it is.  We also planted some cilantro (my neighbor was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I&#8217;ve been up to</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1227</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miss Vanity Mermaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Needlepoint]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I finished this: It is a Kinja Peace Symbol designed by Marianne Goodman-Smith of New Needlepoint dot com. Marianne and I were talking on e-mail and I suggested she make actual samples of her work.  She said since it&#8217;s just her, with her husband helping on the side, she didn&#8217;t have time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And the beat goes on</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1218</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to PFOS for their Time out in Texas retreat. The week before I went, I worked really hard so I could be away from the office for two days working till 7:00 pm or later to be gone. The week after I came back I was exhausted from all the travel, stitching and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time Out in Texas</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1185</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kelly Clark Designs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got back from Lubbock, Texas.  I went to the Time Out In Texas retreat at Pocket full of Stitches. Let me tell you. I had the Very.Best.Time. I met some of the most wonderful women. I got to spend 2 1/2 days stitching on a great project. I met another wonderful designer. David [...]]]></description>
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		<title>S&#8217;s Bells</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1176</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday night I finished Sophie&#8217;s Bell. Last week I had a lot going on and, as a result, didn&#8217;t get much stitching done. I&#8217;ve not put the beads back on the pieces but will before I send them off to be finished. Isn&#8217;t this one great?]]></description>
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		<title>The Garden Post</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1172</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve stopped taking pictures of my front flower bed every weekend.  It seemed like there wasn&#8217;t much change to document from week to week. But when I look at the pictures I took at the beginning and compare them to the ones I&#8217;ve taken recently, there is a huge difference! Today I tried to recreate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Candy Cane Santa Class</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1159</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My local ANG brought Janet Zickler Casey to town this weekend to teach her Candy Cane Santa. I did not have an auspicious beginning. On the turnpike where this class was held, there are TWO Marriott Hotels; a Fairfield and a Mariott Suites.  My directions, which I myself wrote in my book said, &#8220;across from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J&#8217;s Bell</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1157</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I finished Jacob&#8217;s Bell. Isn&#8217;t it grand?]]></description>
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		<title>Another Finish!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1151</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barbarg Bergsten Designs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished Barbara Bergsten&#8217;s Pink Tropical Fish on Monday night.  I&#8217;ve been meaning to post a picture. Colleen from the Needleworks called around and found a skein of the Watercolors I needed to finish my piece.  It took 4 1/2 skeins to finish this piece.   I got the final skein of thread from the kind, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mister Godfrey Gobble</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1146</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Godfrey Gobble]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the way he turned out! And yesterday the threads arrived from The Needleworks for the bells and other custom piece I have to do. So, I&#8217;m set for things to stitch for awhile!]]></description>
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		<title>Color and Stitches on the Internets</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1136</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been following the discussion on the internets about the use of colors and stitches and threads with interest. I&#8217;m not sure how most people came to needlepoint.   I sometimes think I came to it backward. I started cross stitching while I was in graduate school as a way to unwind. When your hobby is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Godfrey Gobble</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1127</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Godfrey Gobble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After much debate and discussion, we named him Godfrey.  Godfrey Gobble. It just seems fitting. I got a lot of stitching done this weekend.  It has been hot here.  Hellishly hot.  The suck the breath out of you sort of hot.  Did I mention it has been hot? So anyone wanna guess what happened? Yep.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stitching for others</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1118</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I talked Gail into letting me stitch a piece for her. She offered me this really fun colorful turkey. I&#8217;d not really talked to Gail about what she wanted with this piece, so I sent her an e-mail asking her.  Then, without waiting for her response, I took the canvas and went to the XS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Bells</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1110</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fabulous Gail Hendrix of Squiggee Designs has done her great work on the Christmas Ornaments for the kids this year.  (I can not figure out how to put the slide show in my blog the way Gail did.  I&#8217;m having a technical block today). I know it feels late in the year for me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Fourth of July!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1107</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night we went to watch the fireworks. Jacob hasn&#8217;t been in a long time because they don&#8217;t usually start until after he has to be asleep. Tonight he valiently tried to stay awake in order to get to go and he was successful. About mid-way through the fireworks show he turned to me and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tropical Fish</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1102</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barbarg Bergsten Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Needleworks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The stitching on my Tropical Fish is finished.  I got the Silk Lame I needed from the Needleworks this morning and finished all the stitching on the fish. Alas the background stitching is not finished and I&#8217;m almost out of thread.  I have one strand with three plies and two other plies.  Not nearly enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A little bit of this and a little bit of that</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1096</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barbarg Bergsten Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Needleworks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Bergsten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caron Watercolours]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have any pictures today. It&#8217;s hot. I haven&#8217;t done much that&#8217;s picture worthy. I have put down the knitting needles for the time being.  I was frustrated.  I wasn&#8217;t accomplishing very much.  Which was frustrating me even further.  Then Jacob decided he needed one of my balls of yarn as a bed for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lacemakers of Glenmara</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1079</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am often approached to write reviews of one kind or another on this blog.  Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you view reviews)  many of the items I&#8217;m asked to review don&#8217;t have much  relevance to what I write about here, so I decline those requests. Recently, I was asked to review, The Lacemakers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guardian Angel for Dogs is Finished!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1075</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guardian Angel for Dogs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oh and didn&#8217;t she turn out nice? My photo doesn&#8217;t really do her justice.  She&#8217;s all sparkley and shiney, in an understated sort of way. I&#8217;m so pleased! Thank you, Kandace Merric for the great designs! Thank you, Michelle for the fabulous finishing! Thank you, Jane for the wonderful idea!]]></description>
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		<title>I can see progress!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1066</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My knitting may be a little frustrating, but I can see progress on the front flower bed. Ta da! The photo in the upper left hand corner was taken today,  next to it was a week ago, below that was two weeks ago and to the right of that was three weeks ago. The Moneywart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh I am a frustrated knitter!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1057</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Knitting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I think the title about sums it up. I&#8217;ve been trying to stitch a simple pattern.  A scarf.  It&#8217;s a pretty wool/linen mix. I have 30 stitches on my needles. I stitch a row.  And then I have to unstitch half of it to fix my mistakes. At least that&#8217;s an improvement.  I was having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My First Knitting Project</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1054</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Knitting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well. I think my first knitting project was a success. This is a scarf, done entirely in knit stitch.  It&#8217;s rather short because Jacob decided he wanted it as a button up sort of thing that reminds me more of a cravet than a scarf.  But it made him extremely happy. The thread was an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebecca Wood Stitch-A-Long</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1046</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[French Knot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativity Sets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month, I&#8217;ve not finished a blasted thing.  It&#8217;s been busy with end of school activities and beginning of summer activities.  Jacob is doing Judo and swim lessons right now.  Lizzie is going to summer school and living with my parents this summer.  I&#8217;ve been gardening and not stitching a whole lot. This is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So Much to Do.  So little time.</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1013</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer is officially upon us.  And as my title says, I have so much I want to do, and even with the longer days, so little time to actually do it. I took the knitting class last month.  I don&#8217;t yet have a picture to show you what I&#8217;ve accomplished but I think I may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Blog is Full of Enablers!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1011</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 20:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Knitting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My Blog is read almost exclusively by enablers. I have bowed to the pressure and signed up for knitting classes on May 23. I wonder if I should call and ask them if it&#8217;s o.k. for me to bring my camera and blog knit the experience? I can&#8217;t help myself.  I have the urge to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m famous!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=1005</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 13:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only in my own mind, I know. But my friend Judy, from Possibilities, etc.! and Freebies, etc.! told me I was listed in the next Needlepoint Now on their article about stitching blogs. Judy writes for Needlepoint Now, so she gets her copy earlier but she said she thinks it had been mailed. Wahoo!]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m gonna take a class!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=996</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 17:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I signed up for this class with my local ANG!  It&#8217;s in July I think. Imagine me doing that dance that makes my daughter roll her eyes at me. Oh wait. That&#8217;s just because I exist. Let me know if you need any details and I can get them for you.]]></description>
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		<title>Making A List</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=987</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 13:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitching Memories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never before kept a comprehensive list of the needlepoint projects I&#8217;ve finished in a given year. I started this year and have kept it in a little widget on the left hand column of my blog.   It is making me feel like I have actually accomplished something.  I have finished seven projects in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Rebecca Wood Stitch-A-Long</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=973</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 12:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[French Knot]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cynthia from Windy Meadows and I have decided to have a Stitch-A-Long. Cyn is stitching this Rebecca Wood nativity from the French Knot in Fort Worth, Texas.  This is a three inch Nativity Set with the stitch guide done by the very talented Diana Bosworth.  This one has 12 pieces, including the stable. I&#8217;ve not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rug Making-Edited</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=969</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 12:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rugs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never stitched a needlepoint rug before. I&#8217;ve seen several painted canvas rugs in various shops but they were always very expensive and usually rather large. I tend to undertake small projects.  They work up quickly and fit my sometime short attention span. I wonder how stitchers felt about having people walk on their stitching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hair Makes it Complete!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=962</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 13:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[French Knot]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hair and eyes make it complete!]]></description>
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		<title>Help me before I knit!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=953</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;ve mentioned my quest to become fit.  And my Lenten promise to exercise for the entirety of the Lenten season.  I did pretty well on that one; during Lent I walked, or ran, 60.33 miles. Yeah me! When I was in the throes of running every day, I decided I needed some new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Background for Barbara Bergsten&#8217;s Fish</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=932</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the background I&#8217;m using for my Barbara Bergsten Exotic Fish. Colleen, who owns the Needleworks, picked the background thread for me.   It is Caron&#8217;s Watercolours 233 Glacier.  Colleen suggested a different stitch (whose name escapes me right now) to look like water.  I tried it but was afraid it would get caught [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barbara Bergeston&#8217;t Exotic Fish</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=936</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barbarg Bergsten Designs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the progress I&#8217;ve made on my Exotic Fish. It&#8217;s making up quickly.  I love the threads Colleen from The Needleworks picked out for me.  There is just enough shine but not too much. I guess I am getting some stitching done while still managing to exercise.]]></description>
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		<title>Rebecca Woods Nativity &#8211; Mary Finished</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=927</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[French Knot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativity Sets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebecca Wood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Actually I&#8217;m almost finished with Mary and the Baby Jesus.  I didn&#8217;t get, or lost (a very plausible explaination cause I&#8217;m a moron like that sometimes)  the brown for their hair.  Paula who owns The French Knot very generously sent me some more. I&#8217;m very pleased with the way it turned out.  Paula&#8217;s choice of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School House Ornament Finished</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=921</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The School House ornament designed and painted by the fabulous, Squiggee of Squiggee Designs, is finished! I absolutely love it! Michelle at Stitchery Square out did herself on this one! I really struggled with whether to keep it or go ahead and give it to Jacob&#8217;s beautiful young teacher.  I mean she&#8217;ll remember this as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living in a Different Time</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=919</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was younger, and my Grandmother was alive, she and I were going through some of her quilts. We came across one and she told me, &#8220;I remember sitting under the tree in our yard when Marvin was sick, piecing this quilt.&#8221; I asked what happened to Marvin, and she said, &#8220;he took sick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Stitch Diagram Source</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=917</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read where Barbara Bergsten of Barbara Bergsten Designs has posted her stitch diagrams to their own web page.  They are in alphabetical order and done in two different colors of thread.  Thank you Barbara!]]></description>
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		<title>Things I learned this week</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=912</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These sissors from a company called Slip-N-Snip made it through security and onto two different airplanes in two different airports and two major cities. I took them with me because I figured if they didn&#8217;t, I wouldn&#8217;t be too seriously upset if I had to pitch them. Your mileage may vary.]]></description>
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		<title>I am so excited!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=907</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nativity Sets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebecca Wood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I got in the mail my first two canvases from the French Knot for the Rebecca Woods Nativity stitchclub they&#8217;ve put together.  We are going to get two canvases and threads a month.  At the end there is a tree skirt to go along with the set. This is going to be fabulous! I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mrs. Santa Has Heart is Finished!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=904</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mrs. Santa Has Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gail Hendrix]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got Mrs. Santa Has Heart back from the finisher today. Ta da! Isn&#8217;t she pre-sush? Gail provided the rings for the glasses and the babbles for the ear rings as well as the pink hair and shoe bows.  Michelle at Stitchery Square did the finishing.  Gail recommended her highly and she&#8217;s finished all my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Break!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=894</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barbarg Bergsten Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Bergsten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is Spring Break for the kids, so I decided to take some time off.  At my office, since I am self-employed, if I don&#8217;t work, I don&#8217;t make any money.  As a consequence, I tend to not take a lot of time off.  But this week I kept open.  Well except for the couple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I&#8217;m doing now</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=849</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve made a lot of progress since the first of the year finishing projects. In fact this may be some kind of record for me. Things have slowed to a crawl recently. For Lent, I decided to (1) go to Mass every day and (2) exercise for 45 minutes every day. No. 1 which I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guardian Angel For Dogs is Done!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=876</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=876#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guardian Angel for Dogs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[P&#38;G has asked BlogHer members to help get the word out about their efforts to raise money the for the Tide Loads of Hope program which is to support families affected by disaster.   P&#38;G is selling t-shirts to support the Loads of Hope program. She be done! I decided to not add anything to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guardian Angel For Dogs</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=870</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guardian Angel for Dogs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have *FINALLY* finished the background on my Guardian Angel For Dogs. I had four strands of thread left when I finished.  I was so sure I wasn&#8217;t going to have enough, I&#8217;d already ordered more. The yellow lab is stitched with three strands of Pecan Light Lorikeet.  It was an easy thread to stitch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mrs. Santa Has Heart is Finished!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=846</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mrs. Santa Has Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I finished Mrs. Santa Has Heart! She turned out lovely and I am very pleased! I used several new threads in this project. The dark gray in Mrs. Santa&#8217;s hair is Silk Lame Braid by Rainbow Gallery.  It is 72% silk, 18% rayon and 10% metalized polyester.  What that means to me is it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m not counting it as my finish</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=831</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cross Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stockings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a Shepard&#8217;s Bush Christmas Stocking.Â  Tina&#8217;s Stocking to be precise. I started it.Â  Oh.Â  Six or so years ago for my friend&#8217;s then unborn baby.Â  I&#8217;d done about 10 of these by the time I started this one.Â  Heck!Â  I&#8217;d done one for my friend&#8217;s first child. I got this one about 3/4 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finally!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=825</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I ran out of the dark braid used to stitch the school name.Â  I finally got some in the mail today and finished it up. This one is really going to test my resolve.Â  Initially I thought I&#8217;d give it to Jacob&#8217;s pretty young teacher.Â  Now? It is SO cute. In other news, I&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ladybug Pillow Finished</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=823</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=823#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got this one back from the finishers yesterday!Â  I think it is fabulous.Â  And as with most of my stitching projects, Jacob tagged it as his own. And this morning?Â  He left it on the sofa in my room where it would be &#8220;safe&#8221; from the dogs. Uuuuhhhhmmmm.Â  Yeah.]]></description>
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		<title>Another finish!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=817</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barbarg Bergsten Designs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is my third finish this year! This is a sassy little design from Barbara Bergsten Designs. I stitched it using Vineyard Silk threads. It didn&#8217;t take me any time at all to get it done.Â  In fact, I think it took my husband longer to pull out the stitches out of the lab stocking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flying Monkeys</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=811</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finishing/Finishers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitching Memories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t this the most fabulous pillow you&#8217;ve ev-ahr seen! I stitched this piece the summer Lizzie went on vacation with her friend, Devin.Â  Apparently Devin and Lizzie were a pair on a tear.Â  I ended up speaking to Devin&#8217;s mother much more than I ever intended when I said Lizzie could go on that trip.Â  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Same, yet different</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=804</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guardian Angel for Dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitching for the ANG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NCPat and I are stitching the Guardian Angels for dogs and are both blogging about it. On the left, above, is NCPat&#8217;s GAD which was posted today.&#160; On the right is mine at about the same stage as NCPat&#8217;s. NCPat&#8217;s dog is a Dalmation and mine is a Labrador. I drew mine on brown 18hpi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesson Learned-The Hard Way</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=802</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labrador Stocking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well.Â  I don&#8217;t have any pictures to show you of the Lab Stocking. I had a mature moment brain freeze when I started stitching the stocking.Â  I started on the red stripes.Â  I&#8217;d also done some of the dog in black silk. When I started on the white stripes.Â  Well they were turning out.Â  Pink. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wonders of the Inter-Nets</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=799</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labrador Stocking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitching Memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stockings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am touched people have been thinking about my dog, Baloo, and my problems with stitching the stocking I bought with him in mind.Â  He was a valued member of the family who loved my children, could lick their whole face with one swipe when they were smallÂ  and wouldn&#8217;t let strangers in the back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>O.K.  Here &#8217;tis</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=788</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labrador Stocking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stockings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Above is the stocking I was talking about yesterday.Â  For a little perspective, the stocking cuff is about 5 and 3/4 inches wide and about 1 and 3/4 inches tall.Â  From the top of the stocking to the bottom is 13 inches. This was the perfect stocking for our black Lab, Baloo. Unfortunately, Baloo was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What to do about that cuff</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=784</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m almost finished with Mrs. Santa has Heart.Â  I&#8217;ve got to finish the dark red around her coat collar.Â  I&#8217;ve got to decide what to do with her hair.Â  And then I have to do a little stitching around the edges.Â  It&#8217;s just almost finished. I&#8217;m making slow but sure progress on my Guardian Angel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Mrs. Santa Has Heart</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=780</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mrs. Santa Has Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve made great progress on my Mrs. Santa&#8217;s Got Heart!Â  I just finished with the coat tonight.Â  I&#8217;ll give details later.Â  Right now, I&#8217;m going to bed.]]></description>
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		<title>And we have wings!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=764</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guardian Angel for Dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitching for the ANG]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, I finished the knitting stitch on the wings of my Guardian Angel For Dogs.Â  Now, I&#8217;m suppose to add a single strand of gray perle cotton down the middle ofÂ  the knitting stitch in long back stitches.Â  I&#8217;ve not decided,Â  but I&#8217;m thinking I may use the white Rainbow Gallery Elegance thread I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mrs. Santa Has Heart</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=755</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mrs. Santa Has Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I started work on Saturday on my Mrs. Santa Has Heart piece. This is another piece by the fabulous Gail Hendrix of Squiggee Designs.Â  It is perfectly stitch painted and has a lot of potential for fun threads and stitches.Â  Gail donated 30 percent of the cost of the canvas directly to the American Heart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I can&#8217;t figure out whether I&#8217;m the tortoise or the hare</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=752</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guardian Angel for Dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitching for the ANG]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t figure out whether I&#8217;m the tortoise or the hare. This picture above is what I had done on Saturday. The picture above it what I got finished over the weekend. Not a great deal of progress, but progress none-the-less.]]></description>
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		<title>Love those Lady Bugs!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=746</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=746#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Lady Bug Piece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I finished the Lady Bugs canvas on Friday night. It seemed like that blue background was taking for EVER! So, I decided to plow on through and get it done while we were watching television. It wasn&#8217;t a particularly inspired piece, but it was something I could do without thinking very much about. Which, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Finished St. Francis</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=740</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=740#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finishing/Finishers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happy Heart Designs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got my Saint Francis piece back from the wonderful finisher, Summer Truswell today! He turned out fabulous, didn&#8217;t he?Â  And I took these pictures and David took it to school when he picked up Jacob today and gave it to someone there for the auction on February 7. Wahoo!Â  I made my deadline! This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Small Diversion</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=731</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=731#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Ann Rogers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I got Gay Ann Rogers New Years Resolution Ornament #1 &#38; #2 in the mail.Â  I think I forgot to mention those projects when I wrote about needing a keeper. Today I got the Vineyard Silk threads I needed to finish the Lady Bugs on my Lady Bug Piece.Â  I finished the red [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Francis Stand Up</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=724</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=724#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finishing/Finishers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happy Heart Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saint Francis Canvas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Summer Truswell just put up a picture of my finishedÂ  St. Francis. He looks AbFab! Go check him out!]]></description>
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		<title>Delurking Day</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=720</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=720#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is National de-lurking day.Â Â Â  That means all you people who read but never comment are suppose to leave a comment. You don&#8217;t have to but it would be fun to see what some of y&#8217;all have to say.]]></description>
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		<title>I need a keeper</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=700</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=700#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Man sometimes I think I need a keeper! Last week I got in the mail Once in Royal David&#8217;s City (scroll all the way down to see the picture) by the fabulous Carol Lake. I&#8217;ve admired it for a long time. In her last news letter she said she was retiring it but she had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progress</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=709</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=709#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Lady Bug Piece]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve made a lot of progress on the Ladybug piece this week. Â It is mind-less, easy stitching. Â No color changes unless I&#8217;m looking to make a color change. The blue sky is Silk &#38; Ivory in a color called Chambray. Â I am into my second skein. Â I bought five when I went to the LNS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I like it!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=686</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=686#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Lady Bug Piece]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Above is a canvas I&#8217;ve had in my stash for a long, long time.Â  I&#8217;m not even sure now, who gave it to me.Â  I know it&#8217;s been a long time because the lady bugs were from a time when my daughter was young and she was in love with ladybugs.Â  We have a ladybug [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vineyard Merino Wool</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=693</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=693#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is anyone besides me excited that Vineyard Silk isÂ  putting out a single strand Merino Wool for 13 to 18 hpi canvas? I have it on good authority that it should be available in stores by the end of February. Oh be still my silly heart!]]></description>
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		<title>And I&#8217;m almost finished!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=681</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=681#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guardian Angel for Dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitching for the ANG]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All I have left to do on the GAD is the wings and the head.Â  And of course the background. The bodice was a little tricky to compensate, and compensation is something I&#8217;m not good at anyway,Â  but it came out looking good. I stitched the dog paw.Â  Jacob seemed particularly concerned that this dog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on the Guardian Angel Dog</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=677</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=677#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guardian Angel for Dogs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I think the GAD is coming together nicely.Â  The sleeve is more stitches building on one another. Â It turned out quite lovely. I intended to take pictures of each of the steps, but I forgot. Â Then, when I had to pull the second round of stitches out, Â I was too lazy and annoyed at myself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Underskirt</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=668</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=668#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guardian Angel for Dogs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the holidays, you&#8217;d think I&#8217;d get more stitching done.Â  But I haven&#8217;t.Â  Not clear exactly why. I am down to the last few lines of basketweave on the School House Ornament.Â  And wouldn&#8217;t you know it?Â  I ran out of braid.Â  And my LNS doesn&#8217;t carry the #8 braid and the Needleworks, where I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Francis Finished!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=663</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=663#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Happy Heart Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saint Francis Canvas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I finished the Saint Francis canvas. All in all, I think it looks pretty good. I&#8217;ve got to get him off to the finishers next week because the fund raiser at the kid&#8217;s school is February 7. Santa was very good to me this year. My Dad and Step-Mom gave me this.Â  So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A sneak peak</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=656</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=656#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Barbara Bergsten Designs has a sneak peak at her new line.Â  I&#8217;m assuming this is the new stuff she is taking to market in Long Beach.Â  Go look!Â  They are fun and whimsical.Â  Her &#8220;An Old Crab Lives Here&#8221; cracks me up and she&#8217;s stitching her &#8220;Stitch Your Stress Away&#8221; painted canvas sampler entirely in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Nite Stitching</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=647</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=647#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guardian Angel for Dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitching for the ANG]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Friday night at our house is usually movie night.Â  We try to keep a kid movie on-hand from Netflicks and a grown up movie or two as well.Â  Recently, because we don&#8217;t have a lot of kid movies on our Netflicks list, we&#8217;ve had two grown up movies but no kid movies.Â  So yesterday David [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thread Substitutes</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=630</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=630#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guardian Angel for Dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KS Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitching for the ANG]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I showed my efforts at transferring the dog design to the canvas last weekend. I&#8217;ve also made a bunch of thread substitutions I&#8217;ve been meaning to tell you about. I don&#8217;t much like to stitch with floss, or any other thread which requires I lay threads.Â  The anal retentative me always rears her head and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sweetest Thing</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=624</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=624#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stitching Memories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t normally talk about my children here, but since this is my blog, and it is sort of stitching related, I have to tell you what my six year old said last night. I&#8217;d put him to bed.Â  As usual the dog was sleeping with him.Â  About five minutes after I left his room [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Face to Face</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=599</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=599#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Happy Heart Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saint Francis Canvas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I pulled out the face on my St. Francis canvas.Â  Or I guess I should say David pulled out the face on my St. Francis canvas.Â  My husband is a sport, and when I look pathetic he&#8217;ll take pity on me and pull out threads I don&#8217;t like. IÂ  redid it in more pink tones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guardian Angel for Dogs</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=588</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=588#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guardian Angel for Dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitching for the ANG]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve volunteered to stitch one of the Guardian Angels for Household Pets that Jane from Chilly Hollow is putting together.Â  The plan is to finish all the Guardian Angels alike and donate them to sell at the ANG Annual Meeting in Milwaukee as a group. I got my instructions from Jane, who got them from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Little Mittens</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=584</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got these back from the finisher recently. Didn&#8217;t they turn out fabulous? The general consensus seems to be that Jacob&#8217;s Mitten is the best. Though I&#8217;m not sure Lizzie&#8217;s isn&#8217;t my favorite. But Sophie&#8217;s is lovely in its simplicity. Which one is your favorite?]]></description>
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		<title>Two new finished projects</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=578</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=578#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beads on Needlework]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carol Dupree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got two projects back from the finisher recently. They are the Snowman I had finished as an easel. And my first beading project. I was very pleased with the way the Snowman turned out.Â  He was a very simple piece done in basketweave, mosaic and scotch stitches. And.Â  I was much more pleased with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stitching With the ANG!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=575</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=575#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The December Stitch of the Month is up on the ANG web page. Go check out the beautiful work the Internet CommitteÂ  and the BOD of the ANG did!]]></description>
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		<title>The Needleworks Blog!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=568</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=568#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stitching Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Needleworks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just got an e-mail and Colleen Church, the owner of The Needleworks in Austin, Texas has started a blog.Â  She promises to update frequently and let us know about all the kewl, new stuff they are getting. I&#8217;ve been to the Needleworks a couple of times.Â  The number of threads they have made me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Magazines to Give away!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=561</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been cleaning out again and have a bunch of magazines I need to get rid of.Â  They include Classic Stitches, The Needleworker, Piecework, Mary Hickmott&#8217;s New Stitches, Cross Stitch and Needlework. Pay for the postage and they are yours.Â  Excel Spreadsheet of magzines available may be viewed here so if you are looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiny Treasures</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=558</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tink Boord-Dill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Part of my cleaning up has helped me with my Christmas preparation. I found a piece I started several years ago when we were in Galveston, Texas for vacation. For the last several years, my father rents a house on the beach in Galveston and various members of my extended family go spend the week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I&#8217;ve been up to</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=548</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My poor little blog. Â I&#8217;ve been so neglectful. David has joined the choir at church.Â  I encouraged him even though it means an evening a week out for him and I never go to the 9:30 Mass when they sing.Â  Some days, I think I&#8217;m the only adult person he talks to, so I encouraged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Saint Francis Face</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=540</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Happy Heart Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saint Francis Canvas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I worked on my St. Francis face tonight. He looks pretty ghastly. The cheeks are too bright pink.Â  The lips and beard look pretty good.Â  The skin color is too brown and not fleshy colored enough. I think it&#8217;s back to the drawing board. Trying to think what I learned by this experience?Â  I try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stitching for the ANG</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=535</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stitching for the ANG]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Jane from Chilly Hollow is putting together a project for the ANG Auction in 2009. It is a series of animal angels that appeared in the ANG Magazine in 1997.Â  Jane is inviting everyone to sign up to stitch their favorite ornament and it will be sold at the ANG Auction as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Work On Saint Francis</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=527</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Happy Heart Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I decided to substitute #8 Kreinik braid for the #12 I bought last weekend for my school ornament. So, while I&#8217;m waiting for that to arrive, I went back to work on Saint Francis. I didn&#8217;t follow Trish&#8217;s suggested stitches after all on the dog and the cat. The cat I stitched in basket weave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ANG CyberPointers</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=522</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The American Needlepoint Guild has formed a CyberPointers group which will meet exclusively on the Internet. This feels very exciting.Â  I have a local group, but I don&#8217;t make it to meetings very often.Â  With my full time job and two kids and soccer and basket ball and homework there isn&#8217;t a lot of time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go Vote!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=517</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I went to vote this morning. I was anticipating long lines of voters and lots of people.Â  I stuck my School Ornament in my bag as well as my St. Francis canvas.Â  And yes I do carry a huge purse, thankyouverymuch; it comes in handy for carrying trucks and cars and trains and soccer shin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Times the Charm!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=504</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beads on Needlework]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homestead Needlearts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judy Harper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I finished with Lizzie&#8217;s mitten tonight! Sophie&#8217;s was the first one I did.Â  It is pretty but just kind of &#8220;meh.&#8221;Â  I think, if I hadn&#8217;t done it twice more, I&#8217;d have been perfectly happy with the way Sophie&#8217;s mitten turned out. I did Jacob&#8217;s next. His was much improved.Â  In fact, my husband says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Designer Spotlight &#8211; Gail Hendrix and Squigeebuns</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=433</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Designer Spotlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the Internet world, I have IRL friends and on-line friends I&#8217;ve &#8220;met&#8221; through the Internet but who I like and would like to meet IRL but time, distance, jobs, kids, soccer games and the minutia of every day lifeÂ  have kept that from happening.Â  I &#8220;know&#8221; several people from the American Needlepoint Guild Discussion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jacob&#8217;s Mitten</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=475</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beads on Needlework]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judy Harper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I finished Jacob&#8217;s mitten last night. My mad scanning skilz need work.Â  Maybe not as much work as my mad photography skilz but work none the less. In real life, it is very pretty, sparkley and shiney.Â  It is not too girlish which I sort of worried about because while my son appreciates my stitching, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where y&#8217;all come from</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=469</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I added FeedJit to the bottom of my blog the other day. It is interesting to see where everyone lives and how they came to my blog. As much as I&#8217;ve enjoyed it, I think I&#8217;m going to take it off.*Â  It seems to me that it slows down the page.Â  And as photo intensive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My first piece</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=454</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cross Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitching Memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cross stitch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Except for one blue denim work shirt with embroidery nursery rhyme characters on it that I did as a teenager, I began stitching while in law school. Does anyone remember when those shirts were popular?Â  What I wouldn&#8217;t give to have that shirt now.Â  Anyway, I digress. I started cross stitching when I was in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sophie&#8217;s Mitten</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=451</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got a little better scan of Sophie&#8217;s mitten today. I don&#8217;t know what happened one color of the bells it came with fell off.Â  It looked like they had cut through the beading thread I was using.Â  I&#8217;m thinking it was some kind of nylon thread, so I&#8217;m surprised the beads could cut through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roll Ups</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=418</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitching Memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve only done a couple of roll-ups.Â  I don&#8217;t know what other people do with their roll-ups but I make them Christmas Ornaments.Â  But I do a lot of Christmas Stitching.Â  Or stitching I call Christmas stitching. This is one I bought because we had a black lab.Â  Baloo has since gone to that great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adding beads to stitching</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=404</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beads on Needlework]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judy Harper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been going through a blog I found recently called POSSIBILITIES, etc! written by Judy Harper. Judy is a very talented needlepoint designer in Austin, Texas who does wonderful crazy quilt sorts of stitching and is a MASTER at incorporating beads into her needlework designs. I wrote Judy, telling her how much I admired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progress?</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=398</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KS Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noah's Ark Stocking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitching for the ANG]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve begun stitching Jacob&#8217;s Mitten. I&#8217;ve done the red around Jacob&#8217;s name, the gold for the bells and the blue all in Basketweave Stitch.Â  I wasn&#8217;t crazy about the solid gold lines on Sophie&#8217;s Mitten. So I decided to try something different on Jacob&#8217;s. This is what I did on Jacob&#8217;s Mitten for that space. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Little Mitten Done!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=385</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KS Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Picking Stitches]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The other night I finished Sophie&#8217;s mitten. I should have scanned it on the scanner before I put the beads on it. Â My mad photo skilz are not very good and the photos are not as clear as I would like. This is a small piece, maybe three inches tall and 2 inches wide at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stitching Memories</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=362</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stitching Memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["American Needlepoint Guild"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Needle Necessities Overdyed Floss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Project Notebook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a piece I stitched probably 10 years or more ago.Â  It was the class sample for a group project my local ANG group did.Â  The pattern was a project from the Chapter Notebook.Â  This is a notebook, put together by the national ANG for the local chapters, with smallish projects the Chapters can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And on my travels around the web</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=352</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Bergsten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitch Your Stash Around the World]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have also found the blog and web page of Barbara Bergsten. Barbara has some great whimsical painted needlepoint canvases.Â  I especially like her Beach Girls canvases that I would so do if I had a nice house by the beach. Barbara has done a project called Stitch Your Stash Around the World.Â  I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The things you stumble across</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=350</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geometric Needlepoint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orna Willis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wearable Needlepoint]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone at my house has been laid low by the crud.Â  Everyone seems to have a different version of it and the BoyChild is the only one who seems to have remained immune. My form of the crud has settled into my sinuses.Â  At the end of the day, I&#8217;m not really up for bending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Little Kittens Have Lost Their Mittens</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=339</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gail Hendrix]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These canvases remind me of a story my son and I use to read. Three Little Kittens. My son and I would read together the refrain, &#8220;three little kittens have lost their mittens and they began to cry&#8230;&#8221;Â  It was a sweet story.Â  But, after I&#8217;d read it for the tenth time in a row,Â  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disappearing photos</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=330</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=330#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve made some changes in my Flickr account, so some of the photos on my blog aren&#8217;t showing up right.Â  If you happen to be browsing through and see a page that says, &#8220;Photo Unavailable&#8221; please leave a comment or send me an e-mail so I can fix that link.]]></description>
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		<title>A Blast from the past!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=300</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=300#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KS Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitching for the ANG]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is another piece I stitched for the ANG Auction. Â It is part of a set by KS Designs. My recollection is that this one came with a stitch guide and I provided the threads. Â And because it was part of the set, I was suppose to follow the stitch guide. Â Which is o.k. by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Merging of Two Perfect Worlds</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=287</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=287#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book/Stitch Guides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows I am a Squiggee fan. What everyone may not know is that I&#8217;m also a fan of Jane from Chilly Hollow. I&#8217;ve &#8220;known&#8221; (imagine me here making quotation marks with my fingers) Jane from the early days of the ANG Discussion List.Â  I don&#8217;t remember how long that has been, but it&#8217;s been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Francis</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=259</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=259#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Happy Heart Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saint Francis Canvas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week my Saint Francis canvas arrived. As you can see, I&#8217;ve started stitching on it.Â  I&#8217;m using the designer&#8217;s, Tish Watkins, original model as a guide. I also received these sumptuous threads from Theresa at Homestead Needlearts.Â  The white and brown ones in the middle (the brown doesn&#8217;t show up well on our black [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geepers Peepers</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=267</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=267#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health & Stitching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I went to the eye doctor earlier this week. The good news, my vision hasn&#8217;t changed enough to warrant a new prescription in my eye glasses. My Sister had been to the optometrist in June and he said her Glaucoma was raging out of control. I don&#8217;t remember the numbers of the pressure in her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stitchin for the ANG &#8211; EDITED</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=261</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=261#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celestial Santa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I received a picture of the Celestial Santa I stitched for the ANG Auction. Â I think it turned out fabulous! Anyone at the ANG Seminar in Indian Wells remember how much this piece sold for or who bought it? Edited to add: Here&#8217;s another picture of the Celestial Santa I found on my Flickr Page.Â  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stash Stitching</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=241</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=241#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KS Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;m waiting for my new projects to arrive, I thought I&#8217;d show you what else I&#8217;m up to these days. Here&#8217;s a little piece I dug out Sunday night.Â  It&#8217;s a cute little Kathy Schenkel Design.Â  Kathy has a variety of these Mini-Stockings with Critters.Â  There&#8217;s a really cute one with a lobster and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What else I&#8217;ve been up to</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=201</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=201#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since I finished the Roly Poly Santa for the ANG, and the Snowman for my daughter, I&#8217;ve also been finishing up an ornament for my son. I&#8217;m not sure exactly how this became HIS ornament, but he&#8217;s six and has claimed ownership of it, so it works for me. I don&#8217;t have any idea who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I&#8217;m going to do next?</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=207</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=207#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have ordered several new canvases to stitch.Â  And I&#8217;m so excited I can hardly wait for them to get here. I&#8217;ve decided to stitch an ornament for each of the kids at Christmas starting THIS year.Â  Yes I am a glutton for punishment.Â  But these aren&#8217;t too big and I think I can easily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oops I did it again&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=194</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=194#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carol Dupree]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been awhile since I posted. I don&#8217;t know what happens. Except real life sometimes interferes. The kids went back to school August 14th.Â  I remember when I was little that we would start school the week before the big Labor Day weekend on Thursday.Â  We&#8217;d go to school for two days and then have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth &amp; Magic of Embroidery</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=165</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=165#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book/Stitch Guides]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working, off and on, on a stocking for my younger sister, Mary. Recently, it has gotten relegated to the laundry basket of stitching projects by my bed. Part of the reason is that I had to finishÂ  Sophia&#8217;s Stocking.Â  Part of the reason was that I was frustrated by the cats on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I&#8217;m doing now</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=186</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=186#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carol Dupree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After I finish a project, I&#8217;m always sort of at a loss for awhile.Â  Awhile can last for an evening, a day, or a week.Â  Usually not more than a week but if it&#8217;s a big project I just finished, it can last longer. When I work on a piece, I think about the person [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finished at last!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=156</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=156#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roly Poly Santa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitching for the ANG]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Eureka!Â  I&#8217;ve finished my Roly Poly Santa! I love the the way he turned out.! On Santa&#8217;s right side, I stitched the Nobuko stitch facing in.Â  On the Left side I did the same thing. I tried stitching the Nobuko stitch where the stitches slanted in the same direction on both sides of the Roly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am slow</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=150</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=150#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roly Poly Santa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitching for the ANG]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In real life, I&#8217;m an attorney.Â  I work a full time job and have two children.Â  Consequently, I am a slow stitcher.Â  I tend to get bits and snatches of time to stitch; sometimes short times and sometimes longer times.Â  Often, by the time I&#8217;m done with all the things I have to do, I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Santa&#8217;s Mugshot</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=134</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=134#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roly Poly Santa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitching for the ANG]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve finished all the stitching on the painted canvas.Â  I thought this one looked like the mugshots you see on the television news. His hat gave me a lot of trouble.Â  I intended to stitch this in Alish&#8217;s Lace with the Kreinik braid going in one direction and the perle cotton going in the other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Picture&#8217;s Worth a Thousand Stitches?</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=117</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=117#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roly Poly Santa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitching for the ANG]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d looked at this piece a dozen times. It sits on my desk, near my computer when I&#8217;m not stitching on it. But I had not seen those missing stitches. I actually had to pull it over and look at it after I uploaded this picture to Flickr to make sure I had in fact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s nothing like a horse wearing a wig.</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=104</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=104#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KS Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roly Poly Santa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitching for the ANG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stockings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Needlepoint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornament]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Does that sound like the punch line to a bad joke? No? Good. Does this look like a tail and mane for a rocking horse. I think it looks wonderful! And I said the horse would look much less demented when I got the mane and tale stitched. I think he looks positively friendly now. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free with postage!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=96</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=96#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Magazines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;ve mentioned, probably several thousand times, that I am in the process of cleaning out my back bedroom. It is a small sunny room, surrounded by windows on three sides.Â  It contains, among other things, a huge box of cross-stitch and needlepoint magazines.Â  Most are from the UK but I also have some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like I need something else to do!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=80</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=80#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blackwork]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book/Stitch Guides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laura Perin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My Blog friend, and wonderful needlework designer, Laura Perin, has posted a great, new, FREE, project on her web page. It is a Mystery Sampler sort of thing. I really don&#8217;t know when or where the idea of a Mystery Sampler developed. Loretta Spears was the first one I ever heard of;Â  I&#8217;m sure there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basketball Santa</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=70</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=70#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finishing/Finishers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got my basketball Santa in the mail today from the finisher. I think it turned out fabulous! The wonderful Gail Hendrix from Squiggee Designs did a great job! And I have a line on a new finisher.Â  She was quick.Â  I mailed this out about June 30, 2008 and received it back from her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patience is a Virtue</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=69</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=69#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Please be patient with me as I work on my blog lay-out.Â  I&#8217;m not very good with html or style sheets.Â  I just know enough to be dangerous. The one I&#8217;ve got up now, I really like, but it has some up and down arrows that I like; when you hit them they take you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That Hat</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=66</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Santa Hat.Â  I was frankly a little puzzled about what exactly that hat is. Is it a hard hat? Is it suppose to keep his head warm? I decided it was suppose to be more like a hard hat and it needed a little bit of shine to it. So I picked this #12 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shirt Placket</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=62</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KS Designs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know, what we consider a shirt today, was originally an item of men&#8217;s underwear?Â  No really.Â  Go read.Â  I can wait.Â Â  Don&#8217;t you just love Wikipedia?Â  I was planning to update on my ANG Auction piece and wanted to make sure I was using the right word.Â  So, I searched for placket.Â  Which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Horse of A Different Color</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=65</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The horse in the middle of my little Santa is stitched with Petite Very Velvet in interlocking gobelin stitch over two threads. It looks a little less demonic in the picture than it does in real life.Â  What I had in mind was a velvet-ish stuffed child&#8217;s toy.Â  I think what I accomplished may be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Eyes Have It</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=68</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Didn&#8217;t these eyes make up pretty? This was all stitched from my stash. I have a box with the threads that come on spools, mostly the Kreinik Braids but is also includes some Trebizond Silk thread. I seem to have a lot of Trebizond Silk Thread but I honestly don&#8217;t stitch with it very much.Â  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Back Side</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=61</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d talk a little bit about something I think most stitchers spend way too much time worrying about. It is the back side of the canvas.Â  Above is the backside of the canvas I&#8217;m stitching for the ANG Auction before I finally finished the shirt.Â  It&#8217;s pretty yucky looking. Here is the front [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addendum to Last Post</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=60</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stitching Memories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t have a picture of the JB Designs Patchwork Santa that I talked about in the last post.Â  I couldn&#8217;t find a picture when I was writing my blog entry and I was too lazy to pull the piece out from under my bed and photograph it. I did, however, run across a picture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Memories of Stitching</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=59</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitching Memories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The other day my daughter announced she wanted to stitch something. This was a kind of unusual announcement because, despite my best efforts, she has never really caught the stitching bug.Â  But hey!Â  I would like for her to learn to stitch so I went along. We were going to go to the LNS but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stitching for the ANG</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=58</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roly Poly Santa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned in my last post that I&#8217;m stitching a piece for the ANG Auction. This is the piece I&#8217;m stitching. I&#8217;m not sure who the designer is.Â  If anyone know, will you e-mail me so I can give proper credit? Â  On the lower left hand side of the canvas, are the initials, TTP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basketball Santa</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=57</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow!Â  Two posts in the same month!Â  I&#8217;m on some kind of a roll. Last week I finished the Basketball Santa I had custom painted for my daughter&#8217;s Basketball Coach.Â  That woman (the BB Coach) is some kind of saint because there is no one with more attitude than a 7th Grade girl (and it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noah&#8217;s Ark Christmas Stocking</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=56</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noah's Ark Stocking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shelly Tribbey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stockings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just realized today that I&#8217;d not posted any pictures of the Noah&#8217;s Ark Christmas Stocking I did for my niece!Â  The picture above is the best photo of the whole stocking I got.Â  I really need to take a photography class to learn how to take better pictures. This picture I was trying to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mea Culpa</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=54</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cross Stitching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oh I have neglected this blog far too long!Â  I&#8217;m sorry.Â  Real life has interfered again, or still. But for something stitching related! I just saw where Teresa Wenzler has a blog, Artistic License.Â  While I do mostly needlepoint now, I use to do a lot of cross-stitch.Â  I admired Teresa&#8217;s work enormously.Â  She does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fini!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=53</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Noah's Ark Stocking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shelly Tribbey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stockings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cathy Dupree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday I spent most of my day stitching modified turkey-work on the lion&#8217;s mane for my niece&#8217;s stocking. I threw some beads on it and called it done. Today I boxed it up and am sending it to the finisher for finishing before Christmas. I tried to take pictures but I couldn&#8217;t figure out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finishing Ideas</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=52</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carole Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finishing/Finishers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I need some finishing ideas. I&#8217;ve got Carole Lake&#8216;s Berryville in amongst my unfinished-finished projects. It is stunning but besides framing, I&#8217;m not sure what to do with it. Anyone have any great finishing ideas for these types of geometric pieces?]]></description>
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		<title>Flying Monkeys</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=51</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love this canvas I just finished! It stitched up fast and the sentiment is ME!]]></description>
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		<title>Go Vote!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=50</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[THE Squiggee, of Squiggee Designs, has been nominated for Pet of the Week! What? You didn&#8217;t know a needlepoint design company was named for an adorable Boston Terrier? Go and vote for her at the Fox5News web page!]]></description>
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		<title>Kirsten&#8217;s Ornament</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=49</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finishing/Finishers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making A List Santa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got Kirsten&#8217;s ornament back from Stitchery Square in Camden, Maine last week. It turned out fabulous! I had it finished as a simple hanging ornament, flat on the back, a little padded on the front. I love the little beads Squigee provides with her pieces. The finishing charges were very reasonable. The turn around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Wallet/Purse</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=48</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got my purse/wallet back from the Fabulous Susan the Needlepoint Finisher! I&#8217;ve not been able to get any good pictures of this piece so since I&#8217;ve already got another one back from a different finisher, I thought I&#8217;d better go with the pictures I&#8217;ve got. Here is the purse. It is a smallish canvas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strolling down memory lane</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=47</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cross Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Canvas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Petei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SharonG]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I was cleaning up some of my stitching supplies. I was trying to figure out what to stitch next since I finished my Squiggee Santa. I intended to re-start the Noah&#8217;s Ark Stocking but came across some other pieces I&#8217;d forgotten about. My brother and SIL adopted a baby in January and I need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Santa&#8217;s Done!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=46</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Making A List Santa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Add new tag]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Squiggee Santa is done! And I think he turned our fabulous! You can&#8217;t get the full effect of his beard and hair on this scan because I had to squish the lid of the scanner down to get a clear image. I did the beard in Silk &#38; Ivory using a basketweave stitch; going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And it&#8217;s done!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=45</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Needlepoint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[needlework]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another pic of the Flip-Flop with those last few stitches done.Â  And I remembered to get a scan of it before I sent it to the finishers!]]></description>
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		<title>Jacob&#8217;s Flip Flop</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=44</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squiggee Designs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve almost finished with Jacob&#8217;s Flip Flop. I&#8217;ve got more of the DMC 844 coming from a wonderful new friend from the ANG Discussion List. All I need is one strand to finish the fifteen or so Mosiac stitches on the left. I intend to have it finished as a pillow with an envelope on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some days I&#8217;m just a doofus</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=42</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 19:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Needlepoint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[needlework]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I mailed off my purse flap and Lizzie&#8217;s Flip Flop to the finishers. Where you ask are the pictures? Well. There&#8217;s an interesting story there. I got a Priority Mail envelope and sealed the canvas&#8217; up. I then thought, &#8220;oh, I need to scan these before I mail them off!&#8221; And I ripped open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moon Santa</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=41</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=41#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 02:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas Stitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shelly Tribbey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wow it&#8217;s been a long time! This is a pic of the Moon Santa I just finished for the ANG Auction. It goes into the mail tomorrow. I started today one of these flipflops with my daughter&#8217;s name on it. It will be a quick project and then I need to get back to my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labrador Ornament</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=40</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=40#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[KS Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another piece I recently got back from the finisher. Originally I stitched it to donate to the Heartland Lab Rescue to use in the fund raiser. But damn it turned out nice! The finisher is a woman who is in my local ANG group. I&#8217;d given this to my friend to take to her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyer Stocking Santa</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=39</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=39#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finishing/Finishers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KS Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stockings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been away for awhile. Things in my life have been a bit stressful and unfortunately when I get stressed, I tend to stop doing the things I normally enjoy. But things are beginning to look up and I&#8217;m back in the saddle stitching again, so I thought I&#8217;d share some of the projects I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cowboy Santa</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=37</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=37#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finishing/Finishers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Petei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stand Up Santas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oh I got my Cowboy Santa back from the finisher! Didn&#8217;t he turn out wonderful!?! The finishing was done by the lovely Susan Thompson (you can reach her at susan-thompson at hotmail dotcom just replace the at with @ and the dot with . the dash between her first and last name, is in her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frustration</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=36</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=36#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nancy Coffelt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stockings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am terribly frustrated about my cat stocking. I can&#8217;t decide which stitch to use for the cats. I have tried several but none are giving me the look I want. I&#8217;ve not been working on it because of my frustration with the cats and a general lack of time. I want my time spent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Petei Cowboy Santa</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=35</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=35#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2006 22:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Petei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stand Up Santas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[100_0815Originally uploaded by M&#38;Co.. I must have sent this off to the finishers without getting a copy of the completed project. I almost NEVER do that, but I can&#8217;t find a picture with the background done. So I must have. John Waddell at The Chaparral suggests stitching it with Santa standing on a hill. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finished!</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=34</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=34#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 03:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[KS Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stockings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Needlepoint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Needlwork]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I FINALLY finished the Law Professional Santa Mini Sock. This one gave me trouble on several fronts. The hair and beard, I couldn&#8217;t ever figure out. I finally did straight stitches using white Fuzzy Stuff from Rainbow Gallery. It came out looking great in real life. You can&#8217;t get the full effect from this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A cat of a different color</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=33</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been having trouble deciding what stitch to use on my cats for my Nancy Cofelt stocking. I have picked several colors of Felicitiy&#8217;s Garden for the thread. Felicity&#8217;s Garden is a very nice wool and silk blend that I think with the right stitch will make a wonderful cat. I plan to change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doctor Santa</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=32</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=32#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[KS Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stand Up Santas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DoctorSanta Originally uploaded by M&#038;Co.. This is one of the KS Designs Professional Santa&#8217;s I&#8217;m stitching as a Christmas Gift for my brother. Just for fun, I stitched it entirely in Mosaic Stitch. It wasn&#8217;t too hard because the Mosaic Stitch is so easy to compensate. I think this could easily be done on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Stitching Deadlines</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=31</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=31#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 02:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[KS Designs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MiniStocking#1Originally uploaded by M&#038;Co.. This is one of the KS Designs Professional Mini Stockings I am stitching for Christmas this year. I feel like I do almost as much ripping out of stitches these days as I do actual stitching. You can see where I ripped out a bunch of stitches on the top left [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catching Up</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=29</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=29#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been remiss about posting, and about stitching. It has been. HOT.HOT.HOT. here. And instead of making me stay inside, under the air conditioning, life continues on and we are doing the normal summer things we do. None of which seem conducive to stitching. So most nights it&#8217;s 9:30 before I get time to even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>University of Texas Seal</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=26</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=26#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My friend, Bonnie, who is helping me stitch on my University of Texas Seal ran out of yellow perle cotton and yellow Kreinik braid. Since she doesn&#8217;t like to do the Nubuko Stitch, she brought it back to me to finish the blue area while we wait for more braid and perle cotton. I guess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nancy Coffelt Stocking *Edited</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=25</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=25#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nancy Coffelt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stockings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[*O.K. for all you Internet Explorer Folks, I fixed the picture problem so it&#8217;s not so wonky. Sorry. Let me know if the pictures aren&#8217;t working on your browser. I use Mozilla Firefox and don&#8217;t usually think about all you poor souls who haven&#8217;t yet made the change. Edited again. Looks like I just edited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting Away the Noah&#8217;s Ark Stocking</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=24</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=24#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Noah's Ark Stocking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shelly Tribbey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stockings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s time to put away the Noah&#8217;s Ark stocking. I have limited stretcher bars, limited storage space and I really need to work on the stocking I&#8217;m making for my sister for this Christmas. Putting a piece away is kind of like saying good-bye to an old friend. I tend to get attached [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Background stitches</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=23</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=23#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kim and Kelly asked how I was stitching the background stitch on my Petei Santa Train. It is the Scotch Stitch with Basketweave. I&#8217;m not sure how you are suppose to do it, but I did the Scotch Stitches first and am now going back and doing the baskeweave to fill in the blank squares. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Santa&#8217;s Train</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=22</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ornaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Petei]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a picture of the Petei Train Ornament I&#8217;m working on. The background is great mindless sort of stitching. However, I can&#8217;t take sissors in the courthouse so that sometimes presents a problem. The color came out kind of funky on my scan. The background is more of a turquoise blue than a dark navy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OSU Santa</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=21</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=21#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Petei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stand Up Santas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OSU SantaOriginally uploaded by M&#38;Co.. I do LOVE those Petei Santas! I picked the stitches, including the beard on this one. I wish I could remember how I created that fabulous beard now. I&#8217;m not getting much stitching done these days. The kids don&#8217;t have school every day, so I&#8217;m spending time with them since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Books</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=20</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2006 20:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book/Stitch Guides]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got a new book in the mail recently! I am a sucker for good stitching books and good cook books. I like to read them both. I also like to stitch and to cook but I take almost as much pleasure in reading the cookbooks and stitch books as I do in cooking and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stitch Guides</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=19</link>
		<comments>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=19#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 03:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book/Stitch Guides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celestial Santa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shelly Tribbey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stitching for the ANG]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got a piece in the mail I&#8217;m stitching for the 2007 ANG National Seminar today. This is such a great deal! ANG sends you a painted canves which needs to be stitched. Some of them have stitch guides, others don&#8217;t. You provide the threads and the stitching. Return it to the ANG for finishing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decisions decisions</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=18</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2006 03:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Noah's Ark Stocking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shelly Tribbey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided that the random dots on the stocking are rain. Noah&#8217;s Ark. Rain. Sort of makes sense. I&#8217;ve also decided, and thanks to my friend Cyn who suggested it, to take out the cross-stitch &#8220;stars/raindrops&#8221; and stitch the stocking without them and then, if it needs it, add beads to simulate rain drops. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newest Additions to the Stocking</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=17</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 17:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Noah's Ark Stocking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shelly Tribbey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the newest additions to the stocking. The bunny is one strand of Rainbow Gallery&#8217;s Wisper in tan (color W90), dark brown (the same color as the camel or W68) and white (color W88), two strands of Rainbow Gallery&#8217;s Splendor Silk for the pink parts (color S912) and Kreinik very fine #4 braid (color [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help me out here</title>
		<link>http://cranecottage.com/stitchingblog/?p=16</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 04:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Noah's Ark Stocking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shelly Tribbey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in a state of confusion about the stocking. I&#8217;ve been proceeding under the assumption that it was night time. There are tiny little dots on the blue background, which I&#8217;ve assumed were stars. I&#8217;ve done some of them in cross stitches in #8 kreink braid color no. 102. However, tonight I began stitching on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Other things I&#8217;ve been doing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2006 17:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a piece I finished this morning while David was pulling the thread out of the rabbit on my stocking and pulling out another bad attempt at Santa&#8217;s beard. I only had a little bit to finish on the background but had moved on to other things. The dog is stitched in black, gray, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Right Along</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2006 04:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stocking is coming right along. I&#8217;ve been working on it a little more than two months and I&#8217;m probaby 3/4 of the way through. I may have to change over and stitch on my sister&#8217;s Christmas stocking as it&#8217;s intended as a Christmas gift for this coming year. Anyway. The present (which seemed to [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 03:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pppphhhheeewwww. It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve posted. I&#8217;ve not been totally resting on my not insubstantial laurels that whole time. I&#8217;ve had meetings. David has had meetings. Jacob shared some of his illnesses with us all which layed us low for a few days. In short, real life interferred. I&#8217;ve made good progress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Progress on the Stocking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well I took the weenie way out about the little green trees on the shutters. I did them in french knots in Trebizond Silk in Cypress Green #718. This stocking may have too many french knots before it&#8217;s all over but I will be a master at making them! The shutters I stitched in brick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I need some suggestions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2006 04:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shelly Tribbey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I need some suggestions, or maybe some validation of what I&#8217;m thinking of doing, for those tiny trees on the shutters of the ship and across the top. I have finished stitching the ship (hopefully pictures will come tonight) and I intend to do brick stitch on the shutters themselves going vertically and was thinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stitching the Ark</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Noah's Ark Stocking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shelly Tribbey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Ark has turned out so much BETTER than I could have hoped for! I wish my photography skills were better. Actually they are better than my scanning skills. I&#8217;ve uploaded, in my needlework album, some close ups of the ark. One turned out pretty good and the other came out a little fuzzy. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finished the Waves</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I finished the waves! Whoo! Now I can move on to the ship or the wreath. I didn&#8217;t use an entire skein of the Watercolours. I had to open the second skein of each of the perle cottons but I didn&#8217;t use very much of it, and I think if I&#8217;d been a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progress on the Stocking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[000_1294Originally uploaded by M&#038;Co.. Hereâ€™s the stocking. Iâ€™ve only got a little more to stitch on the waves. Then Iâ€™ll start on the ship.]]></description>
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		<title>And More Progress on The Stocking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[000_1248 Originally uploaded by M&#038;Co.. Here&#8217;s a picture of what I&#8217;ve gotten done so far. On Saturday I spent most of my free time stitching on the heel and finished the last few blocks tonight before dinner. The progress on the waves is a little slower. Overall, I&#8217;m pleased with the way it is turning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Updates on the Stocking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Noah's Ark Stocking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve done more on the baby stocking. I&#8217;ve made good progress on the waves. I&#8217;ve finished up all the dark blue/black stitching in the basketweave stitch. I picked silver metallic ribbon floss (color 144f) to stitch the foam (the white stitches in the waves) of the waves. I think at night the foam on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Baby Stocking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stitchinglawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve not written much recently. I find I can (in my spare time) stitch or read or write. I can&#8217;t do all three though I can generally do two of the things. Since I&#8217;ve finished my bookclub book for this month, I thought I&#8217;d update on what I&#8217;m doing. I started this stocking on about [...]]]></description>
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