The Song of my Needle

This past month has been action packed as always. My needlework time has been very focused on continuing to use various types of needlework...

These past few days have been fairly busy and unsettled... many of you know that I am pretty new to actively participating on Facebook or e...

Thank you all for giving me an idea as to what most of you prefer.  Some of you had difficulty commenting here (?)  so I appreciate you emai...

This is a different type of a post - it is a request to all of you to help me. I have received so many positive comments and 'likes...

New Year's Day : a start and finish...                              one goal...   Over the past few weeks the whole world seems t...

I came up with an idea just a few days ago, sketched it out, found a remnant of 'suitable' linen and started stitching it - this was...

 December - a month that is always linked with my brother's birthday and holiday celebrations and decorations.  I enjoy decorating the h...

I have been thinking a lot about various things regarding my needlework activities.  I came across a quote I had read many years ago today w...

I have recently read many blogs discussing the merits or non-merits of unfinished projects; lots of discussions of if it is worth finishing ...

My shoulder is making progress on my silk embroidery much slower than I would like -  a full schedule at work means that I have to take it e...

Another UFO finished! Here is my version of Lynn Payette's Little Quail.  I checked on my project data for this piece - I work...

Okay, so it seems that most people who took the time to answer liked my version of the thicker stem on the crewel piece Autumn Frolic.  I wi...

I had a great day today - my small little group of Japanese Embroidery students had all finished one of their projects and we had a 'Fin...

Many of you emailed or commented on the Facebook groups that the project was "a great finish".  While I do appreciate all your pos...

Happy to report that I've stitched the squirrel now and added all the other elements so in theory, I could call this a completed project...

Just a bit more to go - took a bit of fiddling because I was running out of of some colors of threads so had to use small bits and pieces......

Truly enjoying this little crewel sampler... worked on it for a few hours in the evenings while away at the hotel ...here is the...

Spent a few hours working some of the basic stitches of crewel embroidery.  This kit uses Heathway wool threads and they are a joy to work w...

I have been wanting to work on silk embroidery for a long while now... tried to do so but my shoulder/arm is still not strong enough yet.  S...

Started this little project in the hotel room after a meeting on Thursday evening, stitched a bit on it on Friday evening and finished it on...