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 […]

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 Lady’s Sewing Roll

Is DONE! Except not the pocket. And not the smalls. I feel like that is almost starting over! Boo Hoo! But I have met my goal of getting this big part stitched and I love it. This watered silk is what I’m using to line it. I will square up the linen to start the pocket this week. The pocket […]

Silk done!! (Just kidding)

I couldn’t wait to share…I finished the silk stitching on the Bargello Roll! You know I keep calling it the Bargello Roll but it is really called A Lady’s Sewing Roll. It was designed by Jackie DuPlessis and Diane Jourdan of Sampler Cove for The Elegant Stitch (a shop that is now closed, it was owned by Lois who is […]

November Wrap Up

I told you I’d share my Bargello Roll progress this month. It’s not finished but I’m getting so close! Here it was last Friday: and after a diligent weekend and followed by getting the oil changed in my car this morning here we are today: I keep forgetting, after all the silk is stitched, I have to go back and […]

Stitch All Weekend!

It doesn’t happen very often, but thanks to several reasons, both good (Mother’s Day!) and bad (our whole family came down with a horrid cold – not COVID- and had to cancel all our plans!) I got to stitch all weekend! Being the second weekend of the Instagram Blackbird Designs Weekend SAL, my night stitching was on Strawberry Garden. Here […]