A few days ago, I had an email from Thelander Designs — a perfectly ordinary email to advertise a sale on some of their embroidery designs. A quick glance and I’ll trash it, right? Oops. There was a design for an ornament for firefighters, and I just had to get […]
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A couple of weeks ago, a good friend of mine, Allison Sheridan, posted on her blog that she’d bought a new travel charger for her devices. The only problem was that the bag it came with was too small to hold the cord as well, and it was made of […]
When I was at our local guild’s retreat last summer a cute little pattern, Mini Moons, caught my eye. It reminded me of a class I’d taken years ago from Sharon Schamber, who is the most amazing quilter and who came up with a technique called Pieceliqué — kind of […]
When I was in Houston this year, there was a stand selling all sorts of things to embroider, including plush golf towels. When I noticed that there were purple towels, I had to buy one for my husband. Today I added a little motif and his monogram. What made the […]
I recently stitched up this cute set that I’ll be gifting in the coming holiday season. The designs came from Embroidery Library. My Bernina made short work of that! The flap of the scissor case is actually freestanding lace and is hand stitched onto the top of the case. The […]
The title of this post is actually the title of a class (and project) developed by Susan Cleveland; our guild brought her here last week for a lecture, a trunk show, and a couple of classes. One of the classes was to learn her Dresden Plate technique, which I’ve used […]