By Viv Gibson (Rose Cottage Embroidery)

Happy late New Years to everyone! We are wintering in Key West Florida this year. We arrived the First of October and will leave 1st of March. Its been great here and I have really been inspired by the flora and Fauna Key West is the only Caribbean Island in the United States and everything seems so unique here. This past year we have had the opportunity to meet many of the members of the Rose Cottage List. What wonderful people we have on the Internet We have also gotten many invitations to travel abroad and plan to do that as as time permits. One in particular invitation is to Ireland. That has always been my Husbands dream trip. Our Digi Challenge is in its second year and has been a great success. We have a lot of new embroiders that have learned more about digitizing and some more experienced digitizers that have been inspired to try something new. Providing the art work certainly keeps me busy and I love to see all the different designs and what the contributors send back to us. I have kept my photographer husband busy with his camera and have lots of great photos to digitize from. I am working on just how to portray a double Hibiscus in embroidery. I am looking forward to what this year will bring us in the embroidery arts. Our Art is one that grows and changes with time. I have been doing more Scenic designs rather than individual objects. But I still  love to just look at a sea shell or vegetable and work on just how to portray it in embroidery. So far I have been pretty successful in that area. You will be surprised at what I have lined up for the coming year so visit the web site often and of course there's always new freebies. I just put up a beautiful Mardi Gras Mask on one of my web pages and you are welcome to it. Its not hidden. I wish everyone a very happy Valentines day and a wonderful Mardi Gras! Viv r.rosecottage@hughes.net

If anyone is interested in my picture album you can visit it at this URL http://viviangibson.myphotalbum.com
The traveling Embroider Logo design can be found at this link
http://www.oregonpatchworks.com/singles.php?did=48810&pid=53391 http://www.oregonpatchworks.com/collections.php?id=RC

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Silver Threads Golden Needles Club - it could very well be THE BEST OF THE BEST embroidery design membership clubs on the internet!  We have 35 GREAT digitizers, who submit designs every month into a MEGA collection of over 70 designs (usually 85-100) that current members download for ONLY $18!!!!!!!  That's only about 22 cents per top quality design, friends!!  We are talking about carefully crafted, hand digitized designs.... GREAT designs, you will use for years to come!! 

• Click an one of the images above
• Log into the MOC Club
• Click "Sensational Samples"
• Click the month's link
• Scroll below the Mystery Design
• Click each image to download
• Click each name to visit the digitizer
• Visit weekly, new designs added!