The Song of my Needle

I was really hoping to start working on my Japanese Embroidery and tried to do so last night... stretching my right arm as required is not y...

I was able to complete the sampler today.  It had languished in my UFO sampler drawer for so many years and I am happy that I chose to finis...

Here is the band completed - interesting to note how much interest can be generated  with simple stitches and pattern. Last band is now c...

Slow progress but progress just the same... last band of the sampler that needs to be stitched and after this I just have to cut the areas ...

Finished up the needlewoven / dove's eye band so there is just one more band to go and then this sampler will be finished.  Here are two...

Sunday's progress : Finishing the buttonhole bars in the thin band Fleur-de-Lys continued - Nupur 2014 Started on the botto...

It took a lot of time to complete this band but I enjoyed playing with the dimensional quality of the buttonhole stitch - have a new appreci...

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...