Posted in Friday Five, tagged needlework, stitching on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
♥ Stitching on a rainy day, all day. No blue sky outside to feel guilty about when inside on a nice day.
♥ Listening to some really good music all day while stitching the day away. The time just floats on by.
♥ No interruptions.
♥ Completing all the tasks I set for myself this week (while listening to some really [...]
Posted in Quilting, tagged crazy quilt, needlework, stitching on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I need to recharge my batteries with some freeform, unstructured needlework playtime. No chart, no plan, no design, no bright idea. I realized last week, as I struggled through finishing the fourth Welcome Home Sampler, that the time has come. I was stitching most of the design without refering to the chart and I have it [...]
Posted in Gardening, Habitat for Humanity, tagged cross stitch, garden, needlework, sampler, spring on March 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Slowly, I have started to pick up leaves from my garden. Slow going around the tender shoots, but careful, happy work despite the cold wind still blowing. The daffodils are well on their way and I was pleasantly surprised to see that the small columbine clusters and black hollyhocks fared well over the winter. I started some [...]
Posted in Needlework sampler, cross stitch designs, tagged cross stitch, embroidery, needlework, sampler on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
One of my favorite things on a Monday morning is to read the Nordic Needle Newsletter . It is a wonderful connection to people from around the world who share the same passion for needlework. I highly recommend signing up for Sue & Roz’s newsletter if you already haven’t - you’ll be glad you did! Oftentimes, amongst the [...]
Posted in Just for Fun, cross stitch designs, tagged crafts, cross stitch, embroidery, garden, spring on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »
I am a collector of bits and things that spark my imagination. In the Fall, I look for the small things from nature that might be of use later in a craft project to be worked on a winter’s day. Often on my walks, I will look for small items such as acorn caps. My lucky find [...]
Posted in Just for Fun, tagged embroidery, needlepoint, scissors tassel tutorial on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
In the new March 2008 edition of the ANG Needlepointers publication, there is a wonderful tutorial on making a scissors tassel. There are different finishing alternatives shown using beads and well written instructions and diagrams for making the tassel combinations.
As a fun diversion from my work this week, I decided to create a Spring scissors tassel [...]
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