Starting over

I am still here, on this earth, doing mostly the same stuff I was doing when I abandoned my blog for critical home projects a few months ago. We have had a time of it. We had a broken pipe-caused flood in mid November. We moved out of our house the week before Christmas so the reconstruction work could begin. […]

The Last Smalls SAL Check In! December 2023

Hello Friends, Here is your last check in hosted by me for the Smalls SAL! And I’d like to make an announcement! Rachel, the Ten Hour Stitcher, has graciously offered to take over hosting this SAL starting in 2024! Probably many of your know her from the FFO SAL, so we already know she’s such a great stitcher of smalls, […]

2023 Advent Blog Hop

Only 4 days until Christmas friends, how can that be? If you are seeing this post with no or not very many pictures, you know things have been too crazy at my house to manage it, but hopefully that will not be the case! We are in the midst of our post-flood remodel and so in a calm moment before […]

November 2023 Smalls Link Up

Hello, I hope all my American friends had a great Thanksgiving last week. We did. The kids and I made 3 pies (apple, pecan, pumpkin) and the rest of our feast was tip top as well. This is not Instagram worthy food photography but maybe you’d like to see it anyway… I did not finish my small. I thought if […]

WIP Dump

In an effort to catch up and get going again, I just want to share with you all some of the stitching that has actually happened around here in spite of the lack of blogging about it… I don’t really remember when these little things got started or finished or worked on or whatever so it’s just going to be […]

Small Things

I’m just going to pretend that I’ve been blogging regularly and share a little finish I had this weekend… It’s called Small Things from The Drawn Thread. I do still need to sew on the charm. I can’t find the little brass heart charm this came with, but I do have 2 other good choices, the bow shown above, or […]

Autumn Splendor

I have a finish! It’s Autumn Splendor by With Thy Needle and Thread. This design was another coup de coeur for me, I had to buy it and stitch it right away, and I loved every moment. I believe I actually used a 32 count natural linen which was a very easy thing to stitch on and it was just […]

New Stitches, Old Stitches

The end of September and this first bit of October I have been stitching in a random starting and stopping sort of way. I haven’t done a Mill Hill kit in a while so I picked up this nice Fall themed one called Apple Basket, aiming to have a cute Mill Hill ornament for my October Small: Eventually I’d like […]

A Glitch

My blog has been down. I am sorry. I guess my service had a widespread failure. It seems to be working again. I just want to let you all know that Mary’s Thread goes on, and eventually I will post some new stitching for you!

September 2023 Smalls Check In

My Small for this month is a little Blackbird Designs project which I was lucky enough to spot in a destash group. It is an old class project that makes a little scissor box and pin cushion. Here is the stitching: The fabric is 28 count which seems very coarse compared to my other recent stitching. But it was very […]