About every other week I have time to sit down and listen to the Gone Stitching Blog Talk Radio show that happens each Monday afternoon. They are always fun to listen to since Renee from the Gone Stitching Shop in New Jersey interviews designers, thread manufacturers and the other people who provide all the goodies we need to make our needlepoint beautiful and fun.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Gone-Stitching
Each week the guest interviewee picks a winner from the previous week's emails. And each week the guest interviewee brings something wonderful to Gone Stitching to offer as a prize in the following week's drawing. I enter each week, mostly to offer support to Michele and Renee but I never thought I'd win. But I did!
Today brought me my fabulous prize from Colonial Needle, whom you know as the importers of Colonial and John James brand needles, and also as the company which just bought Lee Designs, famous for their canvases and leather goods.
You see my prize above: A set of gold John James needles (sizes 20-28), a set of platinum John James needles (same sizes), two combination threader/thread cutters, and the new John James "Pebble" which is an oval container of a set of their regular needles in sizes 18-24. The Pebble and one of the threaders immediately went into my travel needlepoint bag so that the next time I visit my family I will have everything I need to stitch while I am there.
When I start my next two projects I'll try out the gold and then the platinum needles so we can see how they stitch and how well they stand up to my acid hands, which remove the plating off regular needles (not to mention do a number on my car steering wheel). I now follow Amy Bunger's recommendation and toss all the needles used after a project so that I am always using new, good needles. I think I will use the gold and platinum needles from the start of a project to give them a fair test, although I am dying to use them NOW.
But my very favorite thing in the prize box is my new Gone Stitching magnet with the shop logo of a frog with a giant threaded needle over his shoulder, marching happily off to go stitching. It's on my refrigerator already!
Many thanks to Renee and Michele at Gone Stitching and a special thank you to Terry Collingham of Colonial Needle Company for such a special prize. I am going to use and enjoy these special needles with my next projects.
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
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7 comments:
Congratulations. And who doesn't like to win the prize?
If you run out of needles to throw away try giving them all a bath in ammonia some day. They come out slick as a whistle.
Congratulations! It is so exciting to win!
Thanks. As you know, winning is fun!
A dip in ammonia fixes plating that has been removed by Acid Hands? This I have to try!
Don't know what happens , but the needles emerge sleek and clean.
However there is the possibility that acid will combine with ammonia and create a melting blob resembling loose rolling mercury. Proper disposal, in this case, may be for the best.
Margaret, this is something I am going to HAVE to try!
Signed, the Mad Scientist of Chilly Hollow
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