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  • FALL COLLECTION

    Introducing my FALL COLLECTION. I have likely mentioned previously that fall is my favourite time of the year.  I especially love it when the days are sunny with cool crisp mornings.  Sadly on the west coast this is not always the situation but luckily this year has been beautiful.  In celebration of the season, I…

  • AUTUMN KALEIDOSCOPE

    AUTUMN KALEIDOSCOPE is a gorgeous pattern designed by Canadian designer, Lorene Salt.  Lorene contacted me several years ago regarding dyeing up a custom colour combination specifically for this project, Colour #10 in my shop.  It will come as no surprise to many of you that as much as I loved the original colours and I do,…

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    CRAZY QUILTING

    Today I am showing two areas of Block #8 in my current CRAZY QUILTING project – Black Butterflies.  If you are interested in viewing other posts pertaining to this project check in the right sidebar under Categories – “Black Butterflies”. By now, I think most of you will recognize that I like butterflies and generally add…

  • HARDANGER

    Some gorgeous HARDANGER today.  It is always such a delight to start my day off with a photograph from a project one of my customers creates using my threads. I never quite know what to expect. Leslye lives in South Africa and ordered from me quite some time ago.  At that time, she mentioned she…

  • TEMARI

    A gorgeous TEMARI ball today reminding me of the colours of summer. Verna chose a beautiful orange background which I feel showcases the colour palette beautifully. The pattern is Interlocking Diamonds from a book by Margaret Wood. Verna used three colours of perle cotton Colour #29 Colour #127 Colour #19 – substitute a solid bold…

  • STUMPWORK

    A truly lovely example of STUMPWORK today.  Some of you but likely not all will know that I am a big fan of stumpwork. I am currently planning a new crazy quilt which will have lots of stumpwork. Natalie sent me photos of some of her experiments using my Very Velvet Petite. Yes, my Very…

  • SAMPLERS

    I have been playing catch up since my move in the dye studio so have added a few more SAMPLERS to my stock.  My samplers have proven very popular.  They are generally 4 skeins of different threads dyed in the same colour combination so great as a gift for a stitching friend or for stitching…

  • NEEDLEPOINT CUPCAKES

    NEEDLEPOINT CUPCAKES, yes it is all about cupcakes today.  I know many of you will be familiar with the American Needlepoint Guild but just in case you are not make sure you visit their website. There are many chapters of ANG and I do tend to both see and hear about a lot of projects…