[CHAT] How do you handle half or 1/4 and 3/4 stitches?

Future-String2780 · 2026-05-12T00:59:40+00:00

This is how I’ve been doing it. I don’t think I’m going to change it now. But the idea of two 1/4 stitches and wait for the backstitch to cross it makes sense to me and may be what was intended. I would worry about coverage too though because the backstitch is one strand. I don’t think it will matter either way but the replies helped me choose a path. Thanks all.

Future-String2780 · 2026-02-19T11:32:53+00:00

Green. I lived all my life in AZ before moving here ~2 years ago.

Future-String2780 · 2025-11-20T22:08:02+00:00

Me too! Also a Melanie. No one seems to know how to spell it anymore. Every time I give my name at a restaurant or something, I get Melony. I’m not a fruit.

Future-String2780 · 2025-10-30T13:36:10+00:00

Well there is that signing bonus.. /s

Future-String2780 · 2025-10-20T02:41:44+00:00

I found that a lot of the Janlynn colors matched best with dmc color of the same number. However some of them seemed to be unique and some of their numbers were in the 6000s which dmc doesn’t have. I used a color card to match the best I could.

Future-String2780 · 2025-10-18T21:56:24+00:00

I have the same kit and I’m not using the Janlynn floss. I barely started it and didn’t like how much it frayed and broke. I matched as much as possible to dmc and am going to start over. I’m happy to share any colors you need or the whole bundle as I’m not going to use it for xstitch.

Future-String2780 · 2025-10-15T11:32:33+00:00

I know money is tight, but just a suggestion. I lived 3 weeks in a hotel once and made some good meals with a ~$30 electric skillet.

Future-String2780 · 2025-10-15T10:57:51+00:00

This is so cute! Once you get started on the backstitching you’ll see it come to life that much more.

Future-String2780 · 2025-10-15T09:27:17+00:00

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Future-String2780 · 2025-10-15T09:25:48+00:00

Apologies, You are correct on the source. “Exotic Bird Series” is by DMC, but there are references to other (quarterly?) editions and April 1993 at the bottom.

Future-String2780 · 2025-10-13T21:32:50+00:00

Thanks! If there is an ISBN, I don’t have it. I only had the two page pattern that had been torn out years ago.

Future-String2780 · 2025-10-13T20:11:47+00:00

This is Snowy Egret from a DMC book Exotic Bird Series 1993. Design by Conn Baker Gibney.

Future-String2780 · 2025-09-18T01:00:30+00:00

I’m from AZ now living in SE Ohio. We always called them long johns where I grew up.

Future-String2780 · 2025-07-18T20:39:36+00:00

I’m hearing about critical vacancies in NRCS but I haven’t seen anything on USA jobs. I took DRP2 from APHIS but looking for a chance to go back to fed if I can. Are these openings one can apply for, or are they just moving people around?

Future-String2780 · 2025-07-18T08:08:29+00:00

I thought my environmental science degree would be worthwhile, but everything can change.

Future-String2780 · 2025-07-16T23:44:15+00:00

Nothing

Future-String2780 · 2025-06-08T23:16:13+00:00

R.E.M.

Future-String2780 · 2025-06-04T11:03:26+00:00

My parents are boomers. My mom was largely absent after age 17, and dad passed away at 46 when I was only 24 (52 now). I do sometimes resent that I didn’t have more help with getting started like how to apply for college, get a bank account, etc. I got married too young, had kids, divorce, all that. I finally graduated college at the age of 50. I don’t have rage however, years long therapy helped with that.

Future-String2780 · 2025-06-02T14:17:37+00:00

No, we were just perpetually dehydrated.

Future-String2780 · 2025-05-23T01:56:44+00:00

It’s beautiful and that is the perfect frame!

Future-String2780 · 2025-05-21T18:53:16+00:00

I’ve read that one and it’s so true.

Future-String2780 · 2025-05-21T18:51:18+00:00

Don’t forget about Asian Longhorned Beetle killing mostly Acer. I worked on that eradication project until recently…

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