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  • NEEDLEPOINT

    Some lovely NEEDLEPOINT today.  I shared Kerry’s pill boxes on Monday and decided to share another project she recently completed today.  Earlier this year she purchased a variety of my sampler packs and mentioned she had a project in mind for these. The designs for these beauties are created by Arlene at Works by ABC…

  • EMBROIDERY

    EMBROIDERY today by my friend and customer Kerry.  I have mentioned before that Kerry is a prolific stitcher.  Each year she gives family and friends gifts throughout the year.  Last year she stitched something like 30 or so compacts.  Well, this year she has stitched pill boxes to match the compacts. Kerry used Mary Corbet’s…

  • WOOL APPLIQUE

    I am delighted to introduce Kathleen’s new WOOL APPLIQUE project today.  Kathleen created beautiful traditional quilts for many years as well as working in a quilt shop for quite some time.  Her passion is hand stitching and she is particularly fond of wool applique.  This project is Kathleen’s version of Sue Spargo’s Butterfly Sampler.  The sampler…

  • EMBROIDERY

    It is all about EMBROIDERY today. I have featured some of Susan’s projects here on my blog previously and want to share “Jewel” with you today. Susan is always stitching something!! This is her original design with the monogram “j” design as a gift for her granddaughter Jewel who turns 7 very soon. She used…

  • CROSS STITCH

    Another fantastic and original example of CROSS STITCH today.  Earlier this year I introduced my readers to Rachel in Tasmania, Australia. Rachel has an Etsy shop called Fuzzy Fox Designs where she creates and sells her original cross stitch patterns.  For those of you interested in cross stitch, please make sure you visit her shop! …

  • FALL WALK

    FALL WALK.  Each season when I introduce a new collection I always like to stitch up a needlepoint example showcasing the new colour combinations.  Not long ago I contacted Sue Dulle, a very talented designer to create an original design for Colour Complements.  You may recognize Sue’s name as she has designed several “freebies” offered on…

  • 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…