The Song of my Needle

I have not stitched on this piece at all since my last post but continued working on this today.  The band between the two needle-woven ba...

The last few days I have been working on the Fleur-de-Lys sampler a few minutes/hours at a time... things are going slower than usual, but I...

Want to really stitch but am not sure if I should tackle 'complicated' things yet... so, I decided to look into my UFO sampler drawe...

Well, just re-read my last post ... we were in Ireland a few years ago and I just realized that perhaps Yeats made up a poetic place and cal...

I know that many of my family members and perhaps many of you all have often wondered why I spend hours 'messing about with needle a...

After the flurry of activity of getting the submissions out for judging I have been 'taking stock' so to speak of where I am on my l...

I had promised to post pictures of the completed sampler this weekend so here are some really quick pictures.  I am in the midst of finishin...

Completed Margret Gatis on Monday night - St. Patrick's Day. Just a quick post of the way I completed this band which was is just chart...

Here is the continued progress on Margret Gatis - I am going back to the bands I had skipped over either because they were simple cross stit...

Continuing on with the cutwork band - the instructions called for a greenish/taupe colored DMC cotton thread but I chose to use Ecru to make...

Continuing on with the sampler yesterday evening - was pretty tired and initially just stitched here and there but none of it was keeping my...

Somehow lately I find it is easier to pick up a sampler in the evening so I am continuing on with Margret Gatis despite other projects I was...

Here are the details and pictures of the completed samplers.  I had intended to post the fully framed Elizabeth Harborne but doubt I will ...