I started this piece well over a year ago, shortly before I broke my wrist. It started out as a tiny doodle in a notepad. I constructed a big honking spiral, transferred it to the back piece of an old army shirt (it doesn’t fit me anymore, might as well recycle it, right?) and...
I’ve been doing a lot of hand stitching lately, which doesn’t make for particularly enthralling blogging. I’ve been avoiding posting photos in which I’ve made only a tiny bit of progress, but that’s led to a lack of blogging lately. I probably mentioned before that I’ve switched gears on the hexagon flower quilt. I’ve...
When I started doing a lot of embroidery, I tried pretty much every needle threader there is. But for threading stranded floss, I kept coming back to those cheap little threaders that come in a 3-pack for a dollar with the little wires that break at the drop of a hat. I find them...
Last November, &Stitches hosted a blackwork stitchalong — specifically blackwork in any color other than black. They made these adorable templates, and you just can’t turn down a stitchalong with cute templates, right? At least I can’t. This was only a few weeks after I got the cast off my arm, and I was...
