With summer well on its way, here in NC – (I saw my first fireflies today. They never cease to send me into a fit of wonder.) insects are suddenly on my mind again. (The 8 mosquito bites just from planting a melon vine yesterday don’t help keep my mind away from insects, either! Gardens [...]
Stitching with a Shimmy
Shimmying through life with needles and thread…Archive for May, 2009
So I just realized that it’s Monday evening and I haven’t posted. Durn holidays messing with my time sense!!! The lawn mower saga continues. Saturday morning my father and the EO took the sick lawnmower in to see The Professionals. This turned out to be a very good thing, although they are very backed up [...]
This is the beginning of a series of designs in various stitch styles. They will all use the basic 4X4 inch design and adapt it for the different styles of embroidery. Crewel is one of my favorite embroidery styles. There is just something about the softness of the wool and the variety of stitch texture [...]
The EO is currently outside fixing the lawn mower. Or rather, attempting to. You see, last week when attempting to do my wifely duty of 1/2 the yard mowing, I found the cord stuck. I tugged. I thought it was caught on something. It was — the guide it was supposed to be caught on. [...]
I didn’t think that I’d like this magazine – I glanced through the first issue and thought, “why would I buy a magazine when all it is a compilation of what’s already on the web?” Silly me. Last month I bought my second issue – vol. 3, issue 1, Feb-Apr. 2009. It’s as beautiful as [...]