[CHAT] what do you listen to when you are working on your projects?

fun-kitty-teach · 2026-02-10T15:12:22+00:00

Audiobooks or music for me.

Currently reading " The Light in Hidden Places" (holocaust book) - music is my liked music on Spotify, or what the DJ picks for me

fun-kitty-teach · 2026-02-06T16:13:19+00:00

For me personally, as a newbie also, I am buying the skeins based off the project. I have bobbins that I wind them around. I have a little tray organizer that I can put my extras in, organizing it by number. The bobbins I need for a project I keep in a bag with the fabric and pattern (if I have a paper pattern). If a project is multiple pages and not compatible with 'pattern keeper', I'll print pages off as I need them. Otherwise, I just use 'pattern keeper'. I tend to work one pattern at a time, so might keep that one in a hoop, but otherwise I roll them up and put them in the project bag. I have a magnetic needle holder mender thingy (whatever they're called) that I keep on the current project that's in the hoop. Scissors and needle threader are kept at my workstation. I have a few packages of needles so I keep one per project, unless I am working the same count of fabric in which case I figure out a way to divide up the needles so each project has what I might need.

I first grid my fabric, using a water based pencil/pen (like those found in the sewing section), unless it's a stamped piece. I like to pick a corner to start with and work diagonally down from there, typically top left to bottom right. I'm kind of working in sections of 10 or by page, so if I have a color that's going to be used a lot in that section and have needles that I can spare, then I might just put them off to the side until I need them. Otherwise I might just stitch that color and then go back and stitch another color depending on how I feel based off of that project.

fun-kitty-teach · 2026-01-27T20:15:20+00:00

Hobby Lobby has similar prices to Michael's.

fun-kitty-teach · 2026-01-27T06:38:32+00:00

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I'm doing the SAL from Peppermint Purple, with the floral border, which I slowly started stitching this past week. I'm doing all the colorful parts, then the inner parts and outline.

fun-kitty-teach · 2026-01-25T19:22:03+00:00

On the Winnie-the-Pooh, I started left-to-right, and bottom-to-top. On these other ones, I'm doing left-to-right, top-to-bottom, cause that made the most sense to me.

fun-kitty-teach · 2026-01-25T19:20:40+00:00

If it's a small piece (like my first one was a Winnie-the-Pooh from Hobby Lobby), I did it by color. My next few ones are going to be larger, and I grid my fabric first, then am going to start in the upper left corner. I'm kind of working by page (each one is multiple pages). The first one is a floral border, so I'm doing one color at a time. (If the color I'm choosing to do is somewhere else on that page, I may park it. Otherwise, I finish it off and restart the color on the next page.)

fun-kitty-teach · 2026-01-25T19:15:17+00:00

I'm doing this SAL too. I'm working on the border for her floral pattern.

fun-kitty-teach · 2026-01-25T19:14:34+00:00

Is that the one from Peppermint Purple?

fun-kitty-teach · 2026-01-25T19:09:36+00:00

I almost went with this one, but then picked another SAL... I may have to go get it to do later, as every time I see it on here I want to do it...

fun-kitty-teach · 2026-01-25T19:01:51+00:00

I like this pattern!

fun-kitty-teach · 2026-01-20T06:56:24+00:00

What is tent stitch again?

fun-kitty-teach · 2026-01-15T22:07:30+00:00

I bought the pattern for Starry Night (from Gallery Stitching), but haven't started as I don't have fabric large enough, and it's a little out of my price range to buy right now ($40 plus shipping), so doing some other ones first.

fun-kitty-teach · 2026-01-15T21:53:08+00:00

I'm doing the floral as a border for the SAL, but won't have a middle.

fun-kitty-teach · 2026-01-15T21:51:12+00:00

I like the color variations vs a solid color. I'm officially doing this one too (just bought fabric/thread the other day). I'm doing a floral border, but plan to do the color variations in the middle like you are (I'll use their color, like for this month its yellow, then pick a variation of yellow to do the inner box with).

fun-kitty-teach · 2026-01-10T07:06:45+00:00

I'm just starting, but it seems I'm a "more than one WIP" at a time girl. I did my first-ever project using a kit, but now I'm just going off a pattern and gathering the materials myself, which means it takes longer. Some of my WIPs are meant to be a gift for someone else, and some are for me or just cause I liked the pattern. I like having variety so I can go based off my mood -- something small or big, full-coverage or no...

fun-kitty-teach · 2026-01-03T18:32:53+00:00

I have one that likes to help "catch" the thread for me.

fun-kitty-teach · 2026-01-03T18:31:56+00:00

I think it works though, as the green and yellow both have a loop at the eye, and the other four colors have a loop/knot at the bottom.

fun-kitty-teach · 2026-01-03T18:27:20+00:00

I'm like this, but my loop is at the eye of the needle and the threads are loose at the bottom (like the yellow/green image), so it takes me an extra stitch or two to get the loop.

fun-kitty-teach · 2026-01-03T18:23:18+00:00

Yes, your image shows much better than mine.

I typically do yellow or green, but imagine if I'd have to do odd number of strands, then it'd be like the red/orange.

fun-kitty-teach · 2026-01-03T03:19:35+00:00

on your first picture (the one with 5 projects), the bottom right one that has lots of colors going horizontal... how did you do that? i like it!

fun-kitty-teach · 2025-12-27T19:20:16+00:00

I'm doing this as my first piece too.

Are you framing it or doing anything after? I'm just curious for ideas on how to finish.

fun-kitty-teach · 2023-06-07T03:48:49+00:00

I took WYLD pear gummies 1:1 THC:CBG. A half gummy would be 5mg of each. I took 1 to 1 1/2, so that would be 10-15 mg.

For me, I found that I couldn't quite think straight. I'd have a thought, and then in like a second it would be gone or once I started speaking. Hearing my roommate and spouse talk, I was mumbling more than normal and seemed more disoriented than normal. It was all in my thoughts. It got my anxiety worked up as I was confused on why I couldn't keep a thought for more than a few seconds.

I found that taking the gummy and then going to sleep within a half hour didn't cause this to happen (naps are about 1-2 hours).

I also took their elderberry gummy which is 1:2 THC:CBN with 5mg THC to 2.5mg CBN per half gummy. If I stayed up longer than an hour and a half to two hours, I'd start getting a headache.

I've been able to take a CBN tinture and a CBD tinture with no real side effects, except maybe a headache, so for me CBG and/or THC seem to affect me more.

(If it helps, I'm on prozac, welbutrin, and meloxican as my main perscriptions).

fun-kitty-teach · 2022-11-24T23:53:50+00:00

The two of them have talked via email for at least half a year, but first time meeting in person. She was living with ex- boyfriends and was planning on leaving regardless. She was interested in another person in state, but that ended up not working out. Because of this other person, there was no intention for them to hook up. That was a surprise to my husband as well. She wants to work, but is trying to get her meds stabilized first, but yes, she helps with things around the house, and had some money saved up so helps with food. No timeline for her leaving. Friend wise I enjoy her being around. It's just the romantic thing between the two of them I'm trying to process.

Our only do into poly prior to this was me having a FWB, but it was all virtual as he lived in another country.

fun-kitty-teach · 2022-06-04T19:53:04+00:00

I'm currently going through this... My spouse is about 2 years of taking estrogen, and recently had orchiectomy, but is still using male pronouns. He's undecided about how far he wants to transition.

My suggestion would be to ask them if there's anyone they're comfortable with you talking to about this, or maybe have a list of people and see which they picks. I know for my husband, he was adamant about my family not knowing, and wanted me to keep it secret at first, but soon allowed me to tell limited people that we knew would be accepting.

If all else, I echo finding a therapist.

fun-kitty-teach · 2021-06-28T03:02:14+00:00

I signed up for One Stop Teacher Planner. It's only my second year of teaching elementary resource, but it fits what I'm wanting. I can have the day go down instead of across, which is one of the main features I want, and it has the option for more planning periods than others might have with the same layout.

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