Birthday Party - The Second Coming

[wiseheart]

As you all know by now, LJ has decided to crash our birthday party - the original post is no longer visible. But some of us still had most of the comments in our inbox and decided to reconstruct the original party as well as we can, because we had great fun and the discussions were wonderful.

However, to avoid the same mishap occurring to us, we've decided to open up a second entry for further comments while working on rebuilding the original. We still have two days left, and we won't allow LJ to crash our party!

The original entry had 1328 comments, on 6 pages. The reconstructed party has now 500+ (all reposted within one day and a few new ones added), having reached Page 7 already.

Let's see what else can we come up with. New guests are welcome to share the fun. :)

Comments

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I have never actually given much thought to why cross stitch patterns say to start in the middle, I have just done it. Now that I do think about it am not sure what the reason is.

Since most of my cross stitching is done on packs where I get the pattern, the cotton and the aida, I haven't had a problem with running out of space. I think it was my Mother who taught me the trick of folding the aida double and then running my nail along the crease (and then repeating in the other direction) to find the middle of the material.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

I try folding it to find the middle, but don't seem to do it very well...