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OK, now we are talking. I am so not capable of aural processing, even still at my ripe old age. I visually process. Translation? Please trust me and do not waste your time trying to tell me, just show me please. It just works better. Oh so much better.

So what did someone do? This blessed wonder woman created an entire video library of embroidery stitches. I saved this one for last. Whilst I still think the other two reference sites I posted are going to be oh so helpful (and I still cannot wait for Primrose Design to get her Stitch School website online) … Hello. Video of the stitches. Now we are in my territory. The just-show-me territory.

So now we can start dealing with all those adorable pillows and Christmas stockings and such because we have a visual reference on how to make all those stitches.

This reference just rocks. Mary Corbet of NeedleNThread did these. Adore her for this. Just adore her.

OK, now the bad news. When you try to watch the videos through the NeedleNThread website, the player is overwhelmingly bogged down and the entire video would not load for me. I have a sneaking suspicion that there is just a little too much to wade through on their site, so I went directly to Google Video and looked up NeedleNThread there and went through their videos and they were presto: they were just as fast as the speed of light. So if you are having trouble with the videos on the NeedleNThread website itself, go to Google Video (video.google.com) and search for NeedleNThread. All the stitch videos will appear and you can watch them all at regular speed.

Or conversely, I can just give you the Google search here: Google videos of NeedleNThread video library of hand embroidery

via NeedleNThread video library of embroidery stitches

By the way, since I talked about having this rather silly goal, I wanted to share with you how I am in the process of doing it.

I am a visual learner. Auditory processing doesn’t always work for me. I have learned I am a “show me” person, not a “tell me” person. So YouTube and GoogleVideo were tailor made for me.

After reading book after book and failing time after time, I gave up the (what I thought was a simple) goal of juggling. Then, after joining 43things.com, I gave it some thought and decided to play to my strengths.

I learn by watching, so by golly, find someone to watch juggle and see if I could imitate.

First out of the gate was this chap who has my undying affection for putting together a comprehensible how-to video. He said the magic words “burn this image into your brain. Visualize what I look like and and just be me. Don’t think. Just reproduce the image of me in your head and just be me.” This fellow is determined to get us to just react and juggle. Good lord, I love him for it!

I know it is silly, but it is one of those things I wanted to do. I wanted to juggle.

So tell me. What have you wanted to do that you haven’t yet?