In the June issue of The Cross Stitcher Magazine look for my new Spring Garden Fairy Bookmark design. Quick to stitch up, this design features a lovely garden fairy and her blue forget-me-not flowers for your favorite book for summer reading. A joy to stitch with light, spring colors.
Medeiros Needlecraft Design
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An update on my crazy quilt block is due. I have experimented with some composite band stitches that are new to me: Interlaced chain stitch, twisted lattice band, and the fancy herringbone stitch. The last is just a beautiful stitch band when you choose interesting fibers to work with that have contrasting qualities like thick [...]
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We played at the beach today. The weather has warmed up this week and we spent a while enjoying the sunshine on Surf Drive Beach. This beach and vista is the inspiration for a design of mine called “Shining Sea” that I made a few years ago while spending a summer’s day here with my kids.
This is [...]
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I am pleased to announce that I will once again have many of my cross stitch models on display and patterns for sale in the Yankee Cross Stitch booth at Celebration of Needlework. The show will be running from April 30th through May 4th in Nashua, New Hampshire. This will be the fifth year that [...]
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I am happy to say that my Haiku crazy quilt block is finally finished. It’s a funny thing about crazy quilting, you can just keep adding one more stitch here or motif there. I had the most fun working the row of Cast-on Stitches. I just love those little flower petals that are created. I chose to make rows [...]
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Daffodils by my front doorstep…
Crocus flowers in bloom..
These are a few colorful flowers to grace my garden so far now that the weather is starting to warm up a bit. I don’t have many bulbs planted for my spring garden this year other than these varieties. The squirrels managed to find almost all my tulips and I just [...]
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I read with great interest a posting in the current issue of Sampler & Antique Needlework Magazine about a symposium to be presented called “Needlework and the Sea” in conjunction with an exhibit “Needle/Work: Art, Craft, and Industry in a Port City ” at the New Bedford Whaling Museum to be held June 12-15th. After visiting the website to [...]
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I managed to find some time this weekend to work on my Haiku crazy quilt block. I added some dandelion seeds made from bullion knots and DMC Pearlescent Effects scattered here and there, lots of fly stitches, lazy daisy stitches, seed beads and some vintage lace.
I have piqued my kids’ interest as well, which is [...]
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