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  • Seam Treatment Series

    I would like to introduce my new seam treatment series. BUT first, let’s start with a bit of history. My crazy quilting journey began about fifteen years ago. At the time I had retired from commuting, long 13-hour days and had started working part-time from home. I had quilted for several years branching out into…

  • Snowflake Cross-Stitch

    Winter is in full-swing here in the Westcoast, so why not feature a wintery, snowflake cross-stitch design for today’s stitch sample? If you’re new to this page (welcome, by the way!), you may have seen various Cross-Stitch samples featured every now and then on the blog. The idea of these cross-stitch samples is to show…

  • Hot Red Star

    We’re celebrating the Holiday season with this bold, red Temari ball, fittingly called “Hot Red Star”! And hot, hot, HOT indeed is this bold, fun, and modern design. Design Details of this Red Temari Ball This is one of the last Temari balls in the series that used a black coloured background as the canvas….

  • Stitch Sample – Colour #18

    Today, my stitch sample video features Colour #18, which takes on a beautiful green colour palette.  Colour #18 is a gorgeous blend of various greens. I dyed it a number of years ago and is one of my best sellers.  I can’t say I’m surprised as anyone who does any type of needlework uses green….

  • Colourful Straight Stitch Sampler

    Our third sampler features a colourful straight stitch sampler using a different palette of vibrant colours. In this particular design, there is no specific colour palette that I’ve chosen – it simply is a beautiful array of cool and warm colours perfectly blended together. Our third sampler features quite a different palette of colours.  Once…

  • Straight Stitches Sampler

    Today is the second Straight Stitches Sampler showcasing our seasonal palette. In my last blog post, I talked about how the mini needlepoint sampler series was inspired by one of Marilyn Owen’s designs for the American Needlepoint Guild program “holed up minis”. If you are not familiar with this program, small projects are introduced on…

  • Seasonal Stitch Sampler

    Each December I like to showcase stitched projects using seasonal palettes.  If you have been following the blog this year, you will be familiar with the mini sampler series.  You can find all the previous samplers in the right sidebar under categories – mini samplers.  There are TWELVE of them!! The Colour Complements mini needlepoint…