Mary's Thread – Using every spare moment to stitch all the things

03/17/2025

Souvenir de France

I’m on a roll! I finished up Souvenir de France, the little piece I took with me on our big family trip to London and Paris last fall. This is an old freebie from Blackbird Designs. Click here if you’d like to get the chart. I can’t remember the linen I stitched on, but I know it’s 40 count and […]

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03/16/2025

Mary Amelia’s Bird

I finished something! Being laid up with a bad cold this weekend allowed me to finish Mary Amelia’s bird! Isn’t she pretty? Stitched on the called for 36 count Duxbury with the called for DMCs. I have a beautiful round frame but when I tried it out it is about a half inch too small and cuts off the tip […]

Finished! 2025 0 1 min read

03/14/2025

Assorted WIPS

Sadly, blogging has taken a back seat these days. So has stitching, even more sadly. There are little fits and bursts but not a lot to show for it, and certainly no focus. I really wanted to do the WIPGO, but that has also been a bit of a bust. Maybe…maybe I’ll just catch up here with some pictures of […]

WIPs 0 1 min read

03/11/2025

Nashville Needlework Market Musings

When I started working at The Attic I wondered if I’d ever have a chance to go to the Nashville Needlework Market. It was bittersweet to go in Jean’s stead this year but all in all it was great fun and a great deal of work. A highlight of the weekend was meeting our blog friend Astrid! It was wonderful […]

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02/17/2025

Mary Amelia’s Bird

I have such a backlog of posts…written in my head…pictures on my phone…it’s a little overwhelming. I’m going to plunge ahead with the present. Maybe I’ll put in some back posts later. Anyway…here’s what’s up in my little stitching world. The WIPGO this month called for me to work on Mary Amelia’s bird. Here is where I left it off […]

Almost finished! 1 1 min read

01/06/2025

Weekend finishing: The Garden Box

Having out finishing tools and stuff for the tooth fairy pillow inspired me to get going on more FFO’s this past weekend. I REALLY wanted to FFO the Jeannette Douglas Garden Box project I stitched last year. I guess doing so much button hole stitching on felt gave me a boost of confidence too with finishing this up. Here’s my […]

Fully Finished in 2025 4 44 sec read

01/04/2025

A Tooth Fairy Pillow

Here is the finished stitching for Natalie’s tooth fairy pillow: And here it is getting made into the pillow! And here are 3 of the 4 the tooth fairy pillows that I have made. (My oldest son never got one. He had a little treasure box that he liked to use.) (The first one I made was put away as […]

Finished! 2025 1 23 sec read

01/03/2025

Happy New Year 2025!

This first week of the new year has seen some good stitching! While I don’t have my WIPGO board ready yet, I do know some of the things I will be working on this month and so I got started. I have to admit to massaging my board a little bit to suit my plans for January! I guess that’s […]

WIPGO 2025 1 2 min read

12/31/2024

Merry Christmas….and my last finishes of 2024

Merry Christmas! We are enjoying a home week. Nothing much to do, plenty of leftovers and snacks, and fun presents that are occupying our time nicely. My best stitching presents: 2 kits from Inspirations and Mother Of Pearl treasures from Jackie duPlessis. Also I got needles and finger pads, and a nice pair of rose gold colored scissors. The pretty […]

Finished! 2024 2 2 min read

12/21/2024

Beads on Felt

When I was going through my bead stuff recently, I rediscovered this little kit I bought a while ago, it is more stitching beads on felt. I put off doing it because the instructions are a poor translation to English from Ukranian and I knew I would need to mostly follow the picture, not the written instructions. I wasn’t up […]

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