The Song of my Needle

I had begun writing a blog post last Friday at a time when I was not feeling too great ... my stomach continues to be touchy and is stopping...

I am closing in on completing the Norwich sampler shortly - it had been an easy project and I must admit I wondered if I should ‘add’ other ...

A beautiful Sunday - enjoying the French Open 🎾 at Roland Garros ....  an excellent weekend witnessing immense passion, heart and skill ...

The ‘theme’ this weekend on one of the Facebook sampler groups is ‘band samplers’.  Here are just some glimpses of some of the  band sample...

The month of May ushered in lots of celebrations.... my parents 60th wedding anniversary, graduations from high school and universities in t...

Just a quick note - I will post in greater detail on this beautiful Scottish sampler by the Examplarery. It was a sampler I started on a wh...

My hope is that we all find a peaceful way to live ... Just a quick status report on the Scottish sampler Agnes Begbe as of this S...

This Sunday finds me working on samplers again after a busy week and weekend.  It feels good to get back to taking time to assess  all aspe...

On Friday I was online communicating with a needlework friend - I went upstairs to check my stash... my intention was to help her but just ...

Got home after an amazing experience at the Japanese Embroidery Center in Atlanta, Georgia ....as many of you know I enjoy all types of nee...

Just a quick post to update you ... thank you all for your questions and kind comments. For those of you wanting to purchase The Examplare...

I started the Frances Burwell sampler by The Examplarery on a whim while watching the Australian Open tennis championships - didn’t like th...

Happy to report that I finally got motivated enough this past Friday,Saturday and Sunday afternoon to pick up and finish Sarah Braizear on S...

Life has a way to accelerate into ‘busyness’ without warning sometimes .... I don’t mind being busy at all ... It is in such times that the ...

Have to now get serious and move away from ‘fun summer projects’ and get back to my other projects.... This simple sampler proved to be a...

Stitching update :  I am continuing on with Sarah Braizear 1829 while watching Wimbledon....  just noticed something - posting on my Face...

Just a quick post on my intermittent stitching while watching recordings of tennis championships and horse races.... stitching can be descri...

Materials gathered and packed for ‘travel’ ... well, had a busy time with lots of travel since and I managed to start the project in betwe...

It has been quite a while since my last blogpost ... the past few months have been good ones, productive ones.  Life has started to resume i...