Hmm re canvas, needles will always break eventually, especially if doing hard work like canvas. I recommend visiting your local craft shop and getting the fattest needle you can buy (not including knitting needles!) so long as the eye is right for your thread.

And the stitch depends on what you’re doing really, try this site http://www.stitchopedia.com/

xox

Do you see something wrong with this picture? Well you can’t see it that good so i’ll describe. 24 full colour
pages of the ‘Northern Territorian News’ (3/2/09) and not one dark skinned baby. There are quite a few babies who would appear to be of all kinds of descents, a couple whose skin you’d describe as light brown.

Here are some letters and texts I just wrote to the NT News.

Is this a joke?

Looking at your special feature ‘Babies of 2008′, it would appear no black babies are born in the Territory! The White Australia Policies must have been a great success, what a great legacy to leave for our future generations!

Micky in Adelaide River

Whose ‘Babies of 2008′?

Great to see so many proud parents and their babies featured in the paper, but where are the dark skinned kids? Did ‘sifting through the pictures of the Territory’s cutest’ mean sifting out pictures of Aboriginal or African beauties?

Rod Halligan of Virginia

What’s wrong with this Picture?

I’m just a visitor to the Territory, but it doesn’t much looking around to see that the pictures featured in ‘Babies of 2008′ pictures are in no way representative of the babies born in 2008 in the Territory, which my hospital worker friends confirm, while flag waving racists take no hesitation to tell
me that the Territory will soon be ‘overun’ by Aboriginal people as they are having so many more kids. Does it take a visitor to the Territory to see something wrong with this picture, are the Territorian’s editors so used to this culture of discrimination that they don’t even notice this blatant racism?

In any case this is your responsibility, as your feature confirms and affirms that a child’s future and cultural acceptance in this country is determined before they are even born.

Reuben Rishi,
visitor from Melbourne

If you like me feel like this projection of White Culture into the future paints a gloomy outlook,
write them on ntnmail@newsltd.com.au or txt +61428686397 and welcome to blog response.

By the way i was just about to search for – what kind of needle doesn’t eventually break when patching canvas
on canvas – and what’s a good handstitch?