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New Patterns

All patterns can be found at ZaneyMay's.

Simple Earrings, made with seed beads and fire polished beads.

Cross Ornament Cover, made with seed beads and fire polished beads.

Crystal Diamond Bracelet made with seed beads, bugle beads and bicone crystals, using right angle weave.

English Garden Bracelet, yes I showed this one last week, but I now have the pattern finished!

When a pattern is purchased from my shop at Etsy. I send a letter with it...asking for pictures from my customers when they finish a pattern. Well after 2 years at Etsy, I am getting letters and pictures back. Here are a few...

From Cyndi "I love all your patterns and just wish I could afford to purchase every single one. I think you are so very talented! I purchased the snowflake ornament earlier and wanted to share my finished product with you. The pattern is wonderful and I hope to do many more. It was so simple to follow the directions and I love the way it turned out."

Cyndi also has an eEtsy shop, Country Cove be sure to check it out.

From Hailey " I switched up the ladder stitches. As you can see I didn't connect them, I created four independent ones and then used the swags, alternating between bugles and seed beads. Then created dangles on the ends. Thanks for the pattern."

From Valerie "I must say that I appreciate the follow up - not too many good communicators out there - that makes you special. Here is a picture of my new earrings that I now wear everywhere with my jeans. I wish I could go back and give you feedback again because I've bought some other patterns besides yours and I must say that yours are vastly superior. Others have left out steps requiring emails back and forth, made typos like 6mm instead of 4mm so the work wouldn't fit and your directions are so crystal clear and complete."

Valerie has a shop at Etsy too, An American Gypsy.

From Linda who just let me a note through contact at Etsy. "Howdy and good morning! You're very talented! I've been looking at some of your pieces and I am in awe!"

Goodies in the mail!

Had an email from Debra H, that she had cleared out her beading supplies and wanted to know if I wanted them. Silly girl, of course I do. Thanks so much!!! So, if your doing some fall cleaning and find that you will not be using your beads, YES send them to me. Tee-Hee!

Cross Stitching

I have THREE pages done! There are 6 pages to this pattern, wish I could say I was half way done, but most of the stitching is on the top half of the pattern. I put a 12 inch ruler to show how big this piece is. Raise The Roof "Hang Ten".

Knitting

I took my first knitting class yesterday! Not sure if it's for me or not. I spent close to 5 hours trying to knit a scarf and after ripping it out three times and starting over. I did complete about 6 inches of the scarf. But it had holes and bumps in it. They warned me not to use the yarn I had, but I really liked it. Well, needless to say you won't be seeing any pictures of the scarf, because I ripped it all out! I'll be taking back the two skins I didn't use and get better yarn.

Well that was my week, I hope you had a good one.