Thanks Pat! I can make those corrections. A great way to jump into painting is to simply draw a form on a scrap of linen and play around with the paints on it. Kind of like what was done in the video. You will be amazed at how nice the paints stay in place. Good luck!

I am avoiding the painting —  not an artist!!  I have worked ahead on the back cover stitching.  On the chart for the back cover,  the center oval where the “Journal of…” goes is not the same length from the center to the ends.  The left side is shorter.  With your directions for people to center their name first maybe people would not get c…[Read more]

Nkki,

I love that fabric combination, I think it looks really smart! Your lines are a little wobbly, but the stitches for them can be done thinner or fatter to cover any wobbles.

Best wishes,

Sarah

Dawn,   I am doing the last Area    (area 3)

You have an upright cross in the “open areas”

the picture seems to show pink stitches in that area.

Does it matter which we do?

thanks

Marjorie

Hi Beverly, sorry you are having problems. It might have something to do with your printer. If you are still having problems, send the PDF to someone like Office Depot and have them print it; they might get a better result.

Hi Alison,

You are very welcome to use a slate frame, you’ll jest need to replace the calico in the kit with something similar that is big enough to frame up in your slate frame.

Usually I frame up my base fabric and leave the fabric quite loose before pinning on my outer fabric (tight) and stitching on (herringbone or long and short), and…[Read more]

Hi Florance,

The tops of the inner and outer boxes should be level, and the inner box measurement should be 137 long, 57 wide and 57 high.

I’ve just reaslied there is an error in my Outer box calculator, so I’verecualtlated for you (and ill get the correct one uploaded)

So with 140mm x 61 x 56, you’ll need:

The lid is covered in lesson…[Read more]

Thank you for the corrected chart for page 9.  I downloaded the file, saved it, then opened it to print.  Every graph on p.9-11 have some grid lines missing.  I will have to draw them in by hand so I can do the counting.  byw, the same problem appears when I print directly from the pdf file before downloading it.

I started the basting, so I’l…[Read more]

Hi Sarah.

Are the tops of the inner and outer boxes perfectly even or is the outer box slightly higher than the inner box?

Do you have a photo of the underside of the lid? Is the inner lid slightly more narrow and shorter than the outer lid?

Also I played the beginning of your video 2.1 several times and I thought I understood you to say the…[Read more]

Hi all,

Just thought I’d add a tip here for the lacing method for the card. It can feel like you need an extra pair of hands for lacing the fabric to the card, but start slowly and pull firmly and evenly on the thread to tighten it. If it snaps, don’t worry, just go back a couple of stitches, finish off the thread and start a new one. If it kee…[Read more]

Hi Lynette,

That’s a great question! I tend to use felt for my padding for boxes as it is easy to cut accurately to fit my card shapes perfectly – especially when I need to cut it a little smaller than the card piece to allow for where another piece of card will join to it (so my ‘seam allowance’ for the card pieces is always the same rathe…[Read more]