The website for Golden Circle Designs, my needlework and art design company is now live! I am very excited. Also very nervous. Most of these patterns had a previous life as printed charts back in 2000 when I first opened GCD. Then I went and moved cross country, got married, and life intervened – I [...]
Stitching with a Shimmy
Shimmying through life with needles and thread…Archive for June, 2009
I have to admit I’d been thinking of doing this myself, as I prefer to support smaller independent bookstores. I had put the links in as a service to people who stop here and for some reason or other trust my advice in books on needlework. But the state of North Carolina and Amazon have [...]
I thought I’d written about this before, but I don’ t seem to have – maybe on a forum or rec.crafts.textiles.needlework usenet or somesuch. So here goes again. Years ago I was a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism (that’s also where I got the name Romilly, but that’s another story). I don’t fight, [...]
And why do I dance leads me into “why do I stitch?” I stitch because: I like to create beauty from small bits of “stuff.” I like the feel and texture of the supplies. My husband, the EO, would be REALLY annoyed if I just brought supplies home to pet them like cats and never [...]
I dance to celebrate life. I dance because moving my body to music, even when I was very ill, reminds and reminded me that I’m alive and that this is a good thing. I dance because my inner child still likes to spin until she gets dizzy. I dance because it’s as close to flying [...]