The Song of my Needle

I started stitching Loara years ago, reversibly and over 3. Then, because of a friend's request to stitch it together and because she d...

Now that I am participating in this impromptu cross stitch Mystery Quaker sampler stitch a long I have also been reading up on what '...

I have been having a lot of fun with all my projects but last weekend I realized that all of them are 'intricate and serious' on...

It has been a while since I last posted ... Have been busy with life and my silk embroideries lately. Just decided to sit down and watch...

I had to "think" about the last band on Frances Cheyney... My gut feeling on it was that there were nuances in technique that r...

Finished this band with the mother, child and cat in time to celebrate my mother's Birthday. It was an intense amount of stitching with...

Decided to work out some of the areas in one of the last two bands left.  I am teaching Japanese embroidery this weekend so will switch to o...

Frances Cheyney - Nupur 2016 Finished up this band tonight.  Lots of picots and lots of distractions with the Australian Open Tennis cha...

This was a time consuming, intense band, mostly needle weaving, picots and Hollie point stitches.  It required some thought to make sure it ...

Continuing on with Frances Cheyney... Needleweaving in various shapes with subtle technique applications that are fun to figure out! Need...

This sampler is proving to be a lot of fun to stitch! The band below was really fun to work out even though it was time consuming.  I am fi...

Here is the progress on this sampler to date.  I will be focusing my attention mainly on other projects and will continue to put in about 20...

Seems like this sampler generated a lot of interest.  So far I have established all the parameters and started stitching some of the bands....

These past months I have made good progress on the Hardanger tablecloth.  I cannot post things here since this will be my EGA Mas...

Thanks to all of your well wishes on my birthday - I was amazed how many of you remembered!  We made a glorious 3 day weekend of celebrati...

Since my post with pictures of my large hardanger tablecloth project, many of you wondered and asked how I take such a large frame with me e...

Well, lots of good things happening in my little world : - I am finally fever free and feeling 'normal' since Saturday - my frozen...

These past few days I have been thinking about how I am so used to always taking a "few" needlework things with me when traveling...

Life has been busier than planned with activities that are quite different to the ones we originally thought we would be busying ourselves w...

Have not posted for a while - life has been a bit of a challenge lately.  The 'flu' with all it's complications has been an unin...