Ironically, I started this post a year ago – yep! Seems to be my Achilles heel – the desire to learn to sew better and my fear of my machine. So, last year I fearlessly emailed the author – who has a marvelous blog “Whipstitch” and asked her if she
This year I struggled with my word, wanting something that meant moving forward, but not in the traditional sense. I’ve spent a lot of time goal setting and working out my direction, but there’s an element I’ve lost in this journey and it’s more compassion and love. So, the word
Here were some of my goals last year – I will say I did an ok job posting on this blog, but not great, my focus was www.denverparent.net and www.midcenturystyle.net and so as always this is my “hobby” blog. However, my other goals were really mixed – they were: TAST
So, I’m busy regrouping for the new year – my studio is now on it’s way to being tidy and I’m working on a new goals for next year! I easily made my goal for the Goodreads reading challenge – so I’m trying to figure out if I should up
So, I’ve been MIA for a while – reading my tail off (yes, I made my goal of 80 books for the year – even exceeded it – hooray!) – see sidebar for the gory details (ha ha). The sad news is that while I was on a trip to
There just hasn’t been much embroidery, sewing, crazy quilting or anything else going on here. Colorado has had such a tough year with the fires, the movie theater shooting and now Jessica Ridgeway – who went to an elementary school in our area and now her killer was found just
Yep, that even sounds weird to me – considering I’m a pacifist who hates war and violence, it’s an odd combination. However, I love survivors and I love to hear about “triumph in the face of hopelessness” and WWII England provided just that! It all started with Downton Abbey –
Added to my new stitch journal – I couldn’t be happier with the results (love this page too – more on that later):
I bought this fantastic mud-cloth from the flea market in Santa Fe New Mexico years ago and when I was looking to put together a stitch book it seemed like a great idea. The book is still really rough, but when I realized I wasn’t happy incorporating all the fantastic
Ha ha, I’m so funny – this week is the “sheaf” stitch, thus the little ditty above. I’m finally back in the groove and made a huge switch from working on a project to working in my stitch book – a little book I put together years ago and never