2nd post today...

Cathy, the folded ribbon roses' dimensions are 2 1/2" wide by 4" high - but they probably stand out from the fabric just fractionally over 1/2" ... definitely not an heirloom piece, but I suppose it's quite pretty. I don't want to go to the expense of framing it, and probably too small to make a flat-fold out of it ... mind you, I don't suppose flat-folds have limits in size ... never thought about that before ... hmmm :)

Today's "Stitching Blogger's Question" was suggested by Dianne and is:

If you have stitched for a while, can you usually pick out the DMC colors you need from memory when you go to your LNS? (For example, you know that 610 is a brown.)

I have to admit, I do remember quite a lot of the DMC numbers - mainly from using them so much in previous projects ... and partly just from reorganising my DMC stash so many times into different storage systems haha ...

In fact that's what I ended up doing most of yesterday - reorganising my DMC skeins/bobbins all together into Floss Away bags (or whatever little plastic bags I could find at the time, as I ran out of FA bags quite quickly!) ... it made me realise this is a much better way of storing my floss stash - I was stunned what on earth possessed me to end up with so many skeins of some of these colours ... why on earth did I think I'd need about 6 skeins of 321 red?? Goodness knows!! Anyway, at least now I'll know at a glance exactly how much of each colour I have on hand, rather than having my bobbins in one area, one skein of some in my folders, and the 'excess' skeins in separate baggies ... now they're all in one place, and hopefully will play nicely together! It now means I'm going to have go buy a bigger container to house all those baggies in, though - my current one that was being used for my 'excess' now runneth over!! LOL. Was great fun reorganising them all though :)