Featherbeds

After finishing off those pillows the other weekend I remembered another small from Nashville that I had wanted to do… The Featherbeds strawberry from Erica Michaels! Here’s my start: It’s on Paperbark from Fox and Rabbit with the called for threads. I really love the coverlet inspired pattern.

A Finish and a WIP

Last year I was excited to get to purchase some treasures from Jackie du Plessis’ pop up shop at an Attic event. I made one up this past weekend. It was simple in concept but tricky in practice. I also started a new project this weekend. I really had no business doing that but it was my birthday! It is […]

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 […]

Autumn of Abundance

A couple weeks ago The Attic hosted Autumn of Abundance, its fall event, this year featuring Linda of Chessie and Me, Teresa Kogut, and Beth Twist from Heartstring Samplery. It was a busy week in the shop. Here I am (on the far right) with Jean and some of the shop ladies. They are a wonderful group of coworkers. I […]

Every Leaf

Good old cross stitching is so therapeutic. The weekend was a normal one, not too crazy, with a couple HS fall ball games to watch and home chores, but I got in a lot of stitching on Every Leaf Speaks Bliss and I feel really good about that. Mostly I have the border left and a sprinkling of small leaves. […]

Feeling Fall

One of the stitches I had brought along on our trip to Europe was Emily’s Bliss by Summer House Stitche Workes. I didn’t actually plan to stitch on it unless I ran into trouble with my other projects, and so I didn’t, but it was on the top of the pile so I’ve picked it up a few times over […]

Belated Blog Anniversary!

Oh dear … I checked my last published post and see it’s been over a month since an update! Yikes! I think I had planned a post for the end of September that was never published but now I can’t find it. I probably wrote it in my head! It was related to it having been my 8 year blogging […]

Miscellany

Life has gotten bogged down lately…mostly ok stuff, just too much going on! I didn’t meet my stitching goals for August. But I was out of town 3 weekends and there has been a lot of busy-ness at home! I told you I’d share the little bird pinwheel from Fox and Rabbit that I had started at summer school. It […]

A Small for August 2024

For my August small I finished the funky birdy from Moments of Glad Grace by Blackbird Designs. This past weekend we were camping and I finished it up in the beautiful cool air on top of Mt. Lemmon. “We” includes me and my 5 children ages 6-16, a friend and her family with husband and 4 children ages 1-14, and […]

The first acorns

I’m figuring it out. Now I have about 1/4 of the acorn bands complete. For those stitching along with me, here’s a few tips… Do the satin stitch first on the acorn “seeds” and only use one strand even if you, like me, used 2 ply in other areas. You don’t want the acorns too puffy if you want to […]