june at noon

Today was spent preparing note cards for a wholesale order to a local yarn shop. They ordered sets of six, with two of each of my knitting/yarn-themed cards. First there was the printing and cutting: During the printing process I also started preparing tags and string: Then the scoring, folding, and stacking into piles with [...]

I hope those of you who celebrated Mother’s Day yesterday had a good one! The huz and kids took me to lunch and some window-shopping. (And then I came home and washed dishes, did laundry, and cleaned poo off the couch and pee off the floor, ha!) So now it’s Monday and I’m determined to [...]

I think I forgot to mention along the way that I added a listing to my shop for blank note cards with my illustrations on them. You can buy one at a time or a set of four, and you can pick any illustration (or combination of them). I’m about to write on a few [...]

You may recall I felt the need to freehand a roundy embroidered piece. So I did. I used a fresh, blue linen and some very pale perle cotton and just went ’round and ’round until I felt like it was done. I backed it using this technique, and I like how it adds a little [...]

This is the aforementioned slightly (deliciously) wonky mini quilt. I did a raw-edge applique for the girls’ clothes, some simple stitching, and a little bit of special finishing to the yarn ball. I don’t normally do a lot with blue, but lately it’s been appealing to me, especially the way it brightens this particular piece. [...]

Here’s one of the two embroideries I finally finished up this week. I kept it simple, using single strands of thread on a rough linen and a lacing technique (in bright red perle cotton thread) to mount it. Both the original embroidery and the pattern, if you want to make your own, are in the [...]

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 [...]

This week I’m working on small pieces to put in the shop. (Do you like my thimble turned scissor holster and needlebook?) I’ve also decided to be more committed to drawing on a regular basis and seeing where that takes me as a Maker of Things. The items you see below are finished and listed, [...]

Well, hello! I had a very lazy weekend, so now I’m trying to get myself moving again…. While I’m, ahem, working on that, I thought I’d go ahead and start listing a few items in the shop (from my place on the couch, of course). These are all things I’ve had here for a while [...]

Well, hello! I’m doing a rare Thursday pop-in to let you know I’m running a little sale in my shop to clear out some old items and make room for new. (Hopefully it will keep me motivated to make some new things, too!) Starting today and going through May 31, everything in the shop is [...]