Blue Ribbon Winners…

Congratulations to Kathy Raines who won not one, but two blue ribbons at the Montgomery County Fair in Maryland. She was nice enough to share photos with us! First up is Color Delights – Copper; she added some blue to it for a nice accent.And here’s her “Rainforest Crunch” – I love the way it’s…
Read More

Stitching Progress…

Although I’m deep in the throes of closing my shop, I have managed to get a little stitching in – you know how “stress-reducing” pulling a needle through canvas or fabric is! I can’t show you much but here are a few “parts” of the Mystery I’m working on. I’m about 3/4 done stitching it…
Read More

Closing my shop…

means I’ll have more time to design! Today I officially announced I will be closing my retail shop to focus on my own designs. Although many of my retail customers are very sad, I’m personally very excited about becoming a full time Designer. It has been very challenging the last couple of years having a shop…
Read More

Fantastic Framing…and more

Sarah sent me this photo of her framed “Appalachia” – she turned it on its side and had some really cool mats cut for it. Another photo from Sarah is her finished “Aquamarine”. The framing is simple and really sets it off. This is Mary E.’s “Amazing Color” – she used this as a “stash…
Read More

Back from Baltimore…

I’m back from the Needlework Trade Show in Baltimore, Maryland. I exhibited my designs and had a fabulous time. My mom came and helped me in my “booth” and I’m always happy to spend time with her. The photo above shows my first Baltimore crabcake – it was so yummy I had another crabcake dinner…
Read More

Photos to share…

I have some fun photos to share. The first are a couple of pillows my mom finished for a friend of ours – Dottie stitched Burst of Stars (originally a Mystery class) in the Tahiti colorway and Amazing Color in the silks. She wanted them “fun & funky” so they were sashed with Kaffe Fassett fabric and…
Read More

Funky Hearts…

I put the last stitch in Funky Hearts yesterday! I woke the cats up to help me celebrate!! It will be published next month but here’s a bit of a sneak peek! I’m now going to devote my stitching time to the Mystery I’ll start in the fall. I’m using a palette of colors I’ve…
Read More

Lollipops…

Here it is –  finished and ready to be framed! Now I have several other ideas that are a takeoff of this design. It will be a while before I get to them though. I’m almost finished working on my Funky Hearts – I had a marathon session of stitching today and did one whole border…
Read More

Color Delights

Don’t you hate it when you type a whole blog post and then get an error when you hit “Post”?! It just happened to me so I’ll try to remember all I wrote and try again…it’ll probably be shorter this time! I’m releasing a new Color Delights – Chartreuse early next week – it’s at…
Read More

Lollipops…

I’ve filled in most of the background with black now and it just makes the lollipops “pop”! I used five strands of floss to cover the white canvas. I’m really happy with it now and will be able to release this design this summer. Here’s a sneak peek at part that’s done... Now I’m back to…
Read More