Sampler & Antique Needlework Quarterly

In January of this year I ordered the “Sampler & Antique Needlework Quarterly Complete Collection 1991 – 2015” DVD.

I had moved it around from place to place but had never opened the box.

My Chromebook doesn’t have a slot for playing CDs or DVDs so I had to ask Vince to get an old laptop that would have a way I could play it and every time I thought about doing it, he was busy or I didn’t have time to sit and watch anything.

A couple of days ago I finally asked him for something I could use to watch this. We have a DVD player that Addie uses in the car on trips but I wanted a computer so I could save the patterns I want and put them into Pattern Keeper so he dug out an old laptop. The back of the box says “Printer friendly charts” but I save the charts as PDFs so I can import them into Pattern Keeper. What I do is “print to pdf” just the pages of each chart, then email them to myself so I can open them on the Chromebook that has Pattern Keeper on it and so far, it’s worked just fine.

I have been having so much fun going through these old magazines. There are 80 magazines and I’m trying to quickly go through 5 per day just looking at the charts and saving the ones I might want to stitch. I want to go back later and read the articles.

There are all kinds of needlework projects, many of which I have no interest in doing, but love seeing and reading about them. There are some amazing needlework projects in these old magazines!