Inspiration Often Hits From Unexpected Sources

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Inspiration for those of us with an itch to stitch and to make stuff isn't necessarily a gift of the Muses wafted like fairy dust into our yarn fuzzed minds. Often it's much more prosaic than that. In my case, inspiration is more likely to be a combination of dumb luck, a trick of light or some visual cue so obvious even a hamster would notice it.

I have no idea what a frequency selective MASH IQ sigma delta modulator is, or what it does. I do know that it was designed in 2001 by Ron Bryant and Scott Saucier, who were at that time electrical engineering students at the University of Maine. I also know it has nothing to do with counted cross-stitch. Or didn't until I got my hands on a photocopy of their microchip circuitry, which crawled out of a pile of papers on my editor's desk not so long ago. Saucier is my editor's son.

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Inspiration Often Hits From Unexpected Sources

When I first saw the errant photocopy, without my glasses and from a distance, I thought the photo of the microchip was a counted cross-stitch embroidery design. On closer...

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