I don't know what's going on. It was working fine and then I needed to adjust something in the backroom. I didn't touch anything having to do with images, but they are gone! I'll work on it later. I need to sleep. Everything else seems to be there. Let me know if you have problems with any links.

I see several things that need to be fixed. I hope to complete them this weekend. It's amazing how quickly I have forgotten the little, teeny tiny bit of CSS and PHP that I knew, so I have to look everything up to make this look the way I want. I think I finally have all the colors right, but I won't bet on it.

Edit: All fixed now. It wasn't anything to do with css or php. I just needed to uncheck something in the blog admin. DUH! Anyway, I like the new spring colors.

Edit: 7:16 pm And then I try to adjust something that should be easy and it's messed up again!

It's been a while since I posted any sketchbook pictures, so here they are.

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Sharon B's TAST Challenge this week is herringbone stitch. I really didn't think much about this. I may have lost all my 2011 photos and I've been trying to recover them and to say I was frustrated last night was an understatement. I just wanted to sit and relax, so when I heard some interesting space program on the TV, I decided to forget the photos for the moment, I went to the couch to stitch.

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Got the new TAST stitch Monday night and started working on it last night. I didn't finish, so I won't show it yet, but I learned something. Closed Cretan stitch is exactly the same thing as my dense feather stitch that I used to make the palm tree trunk (here).  I already knew that feather stitch was a variation, or in the family, of buttonhole. The background of the large heart I did kept wanting to turn into buttonhole, which it is, if you keep going to the same side rather than alternating. I didn't realize that Cretan stitch was related. I expected to learn new stitches and/or new ways to do stitches, but I was happily surprised to learn the relationships between these stitches. It seems to me that as I learn these relationships, I will understand the stitches better.

This also makes me realize that I need to finish the Stitch Files that I have. I can also reference them to the TAST sampler.

My TAST sampler is not 100% TAST. The very first thing on the first piece is some Brazilian embroidery experimenting. The last thing on the first piece is cute pattern I got free somewhere. (I can't think of where, at the moment. I'll reference it properly when I show it.) Now, I've started a second piece. I don't think I will call it my TAST sampler. It's more like my Relaxation Sampler.  I really enjoy working on it, with either the TV or some music playing. It actually is very relaxing... even doing teeny, tiny woven petals or teeny, tiny French knots on a sunflower. Or maybe I'll just call it my Sampler. I want to make it a long one, like SharonB's sampler. Don't know that I can get it quite that long, since she has a 25 year head start, but I plan to live to a very ripe old age, so maybe... 

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