After taking a bit of a break from the  canvas work spectacle case , it has progressed by a few more rounds. Somehow, it's surprising ho...

Reticella embroidery has always intrigued me. It's a form of whitework embroidery that combines cutwork and needlemade lace and it's...

I hope that you had a happy Christmas and that 2019 will be a very good year for you - healthy,  rewarding and happy. This Christmas was t...

Earlier in June I started a piece of purple Bargello, or Florentine, that I wrote about in previous posts here and here . As I worked...

The progress on the canvas work spectacle case, that I wrote about in this post here , has been spectacularly slow. There's been more un...

I've started to stitch a little kit that I've had for years. It's a spectacle case designed by Kathryn Cilliers-Louw. The needle...

A little stitching inspiration for the weekend from the needle of Marie E. Pieres . Marie E. Pieres This portrait is the work o...

A London themed quilting fabric jumped out at me from the shelf when I saw it in the cute quilt shop Pretty Quilts. Incidentally it was not ...

Sometimes the occasion arises when you are looking for an embroidery thread in the same colour but a different  type of thread. Thanks to a ...

Today I came across a number of comments that had been left on some of my previous blog posts. Usually I receive an email that draws my atte...