june at noon

Last week I spent some time revamping the team blog for one of my Etsy teams, the Etsy NeedleArts Team (EtsyNEAT). It’s a place where we can build friendships, support each other, and help promote each other’s shops. The activity is already starting to pick up on the team. If you do hand stitching with [...]

You know what? You guys are the best. Seriously. Thank you so much for all the kind, supportive, encouraging things you said about my Wednesday post. You’ve given me the courage to put my prints in the shop and see what happens, and to keep making new ones—and believe me, I’ve got a sketchbook full [...]

Note: I’m about to break my self-imposed rule against showing off my carefully guarded Christmas presents when I think the recipient might read here from time to time. I think I’m safe, but just in case: April, stop reading NOW! There now. Let’s get on with it. If you’ve been hanging around this website for [...]

I’d planned to write this post yesterday on my regular “schedule,” but I needed some more time to draw up a new pattern that I wanted to share. That makes it all right, doesn’t it? So today I’m offering a free Winter Matryoshka embroidery pattern. (Or use it as a coloring sheet or some other [...]

I’m finally finding the time to get back to a couple of embroidery pieces (Christmas gifts) that I had to put on hold for more pressing projects. This one requires a good soaking before it will be ready for lacing onto its backing board. In the meantime, I’m whipping up what I hope will be [...]

A good friend of mine is a portrait photographer, and this summer she took some new family photos for us. As partial payment, I made a couple of items at her request, the first of which was a kids’ play mailbox. It’s customized for their family, and yes, that’s a pug, the type of dog [...]

In June, before I left for our family vacation and the subsequent blogging breaks, I finished up another quick set of Christmas gifts: ruffled scarves. I started with inspiration from several different tutorials I came across that used elastic thread to create a shirring effect. (I can’t find the original tutorial I looked at, but [...]

I’m still shaking the sand out of my shorts, so rather than show you that vaguely creative mess, would you mind some shots from last week’s space? Sigh. As always, there’s a party going on at Kirsty’s place. Surf on over if you fancy some more creativity.

There aren’t too many people I’d make this for. To begin with, I don’t know that many people who like Super Mario Brothers enough to be excited about a Mario-themed gift. And beyond that, I’m not a big fan of cross stitch. (I think people do some amazing work with cross stitch; I just don’t [...]

It’s some stitching for me this weekend. How about you?