One of my Christmas presents this year was this fabulous book and so I’m finally getting ready to stitch with it. My experience with crewel has been elementary at best and I’m vowing to do a bit better with this one – so I bought a frame – just a
This was the ultimate in “I’ll just do this quick kit” and it sort of took over my life for a few weeks. I’m NOT a counter – and so counted cross stitch really isn’t my thing. I think if I do another one (and I kind of have to
I’m late, but I’m already working on next week’s photo. However, just to catch up, here’s last weeks: I have always wanted to do this stitch – it’s from Dorothy Bond’s book “Crazy Quilt Stitches” – and has caught my eye for years, but I never had the perfect spot
Well the good news is I stitched all weekend – the bad news? I didn’t get around to posting my stitches and projects until today. My first excuse is that I don’t think I really LOVE the fly stitch. I did end up liking my second example and I’ll play
This post has taken me longer than I originally thought it would – making goals and organizing my year has become a yearly goal, but this year I’m looking back and my fiber art really took an interesting turn. I’ve had some time to evaluate and have really loved a
Woo hoo! New fabric! (who doesn’t love that!). This fabby number is for our kitchen curtains. Yep! My duaghter’s comment was “Wow! Daddy will like cooking in here!” ha ha! But I have to say, I think this fabric is really cool. I’ll put up a picture when I’m done,
To kick off my new and re-invented blog I’m going to have one day a week where I feature what I’m working on – this is what I’m stitching currently. Above is my new martini towel (for a friend). The one below is for Missy C’s collection of cat stitching
Somehow that should be a song, shouldn’t it? Anyway, I bought this totally cute little crewel project at an estate sale – I have a brazilian embroidery project to do that includes Turkey work and was warned off of it (and this is from some AMAZING stitchers). So, you know
I was catching up on some blog reading today and came across this post about “women’s art” by Sandra Dallas: I love quilts. I appreciate the artistry and workmanship and the fact they are women’s art. But mostly, I love finding the secrets they tell. But I also love
So, I’ve posted a few pictures of this “in progress” but here it is (I’ll explain the pen in a second): I’m really happy with it and trying to decide if my next one (I have 3 towels) should be the same – or a slight variation or completely different.