The Song of my Needle

Even though our lives have been riddled with challenges and problems, I choose to be grateful for all the blessings. May this find you and y...

 Life and planned finishes and all needlework plans and projects interrupted - dealing with a ‘flood’ and all the resulting damage at the of...

Taking a break from Ann Dale was finally my only solution ... I have to think through color choices and have already spent the past months ...

My favorite way to start a Sunday ... watching the early morning light dance across my needlework and see the silk threads gleam golden.  It...

May this first day of 2020 usher in Peace, Happiness and Contentment - wishing you all a Happy New Year ! I hope the last few da...

Thanksgiving in USA this year was later than usual... and it found us stateside this time - canceled yet another bunch of trips and activiti...

Still not feeling great on this rainy Sunday of Diwali.  Trying to focus on at least feeling like I am doing something productive - needlep...

Many of you have emailed or messaged me to find out if things were okay ... I have been weaning myself off of Facebook and trying to not ...

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...