I’ll cross that stitch when I come to it

really! Here’s what I have so far for my block on Toni’s RR.

It’s mostly modified Little House Needleworks patterns. I’m not sure where to stitch my name yet - I’m going to email Toni to ask if she wants it in the block or not. I’m still thinking it looks a […]

Another SBQ:
What do you love to do that many people hate? What do you hate to do, but do anyway?
I love backstitching, which I know many people hate. It can get tedious if there’s a lot of it, but many times the backstitching really brings out the details in a design. Let’s […]

Yup, another project I finished at the hospital. It’s Secret Needle Night’s Wings of Freedom.

I really enjoyed stitching this. There were so many different types of thread - perle cotton, Kreinik braid, suede, fyreworks, it was amazing!
Gram’s out of the hospital and in the rehab center now. She’s looking […]

Laridian asked (quite a while ago) something about my dyed fabrics, so I decided to write a tutorial. Here it is!
You need….

Rit dye (powder or liquid), usually found in the laundry section of the grocery store
stock pot (it can’t be used for food afterwards, so I have a cheapie dedicated one)
stirring implement (I […]

Here’s one of the many things I finished in the hospital. It’s Fancy Work’s Noel, from the 2006 issue of Just Cross Stitch ornaments.

I originally started it for one of those ornament-a-month challenges, but this was a lot more finicky than it looked - probably all the over-one alphabet! I love how […]

Thanks so much to everyone who send “get well soon” thoughts and prayers to my gram. She finally had her surgery Thursday night, and she’s on the way to recovery. She still has a few more days in the hospital (due to the same complications that delayed her surgery), but after that […]

I probably won’t be posting too much over the next week. My gram fell while getting out of bed early Monday morning and both dislocated *and* broke her hip. Glenn and I spent most of the day at the hospital, and will probably spend most of tomorrow there, too. I spent […]

Another missed SBQ:
Do you consider yourself a “floss miser?”
I used to stitch with impossibly small bits of DMC… until I realized that it was messing up my tension, and gosh darnit, it’s only 30 cents a skein! Even with expensive silks and such, I’ll stitch as close as I can without too much […]

Whew, I can’t believe it’s Saturday. The A/C for our apartment broke Thursday, so we ended up sleeping over at a friend’s house. Needless to say, I was sooo tired Friday that I really didn’t get much done.
Anyway, here’s Skull Day, which I finished up on Thursday.

I stitched them on my hand-dyed […]

To make up for my short post yesterday, I’ve got an awfully chatty post today
Cheryl asked me about my plans for Taps. The magazine had a photo of it double-framed with deep red and blue mats, and I really liked that. It’s pretty small, so I’ll probably be able […]