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The intent here was to just do a few sample words to see if it was as easy or as hard as it looked. Once I got started I had to finish the phrase from the Beatles song and illustrate it. We used to have a denim scrap picnic blanket with this embroidered all around the edge and I have no clue where it is today.  Those letters were much larger. Working with four strands of 12 wt Sulky cotton was much harder.

The lesson for me is patience (those tight curves look much closer to perfect when you take 12 stitches instead of 7 or 8) and focus, literally and figuratively. The needle needs to come and go exactly in the center of the marked line, not a couple of threads this way or that. You can't do stitching letters justice with one eye on the ballgame and I am definitely in the market for one of these gizmos.