june at noon

It’s here! I’ve been jealously watching other bloggers posting photos of their received quilt squares, and at long last mine has arrived! I’ve a few ideas floating in my head, but now it’s time to buckle down and really sort something out. Since I have to allow return shipping time, I need to get moving. [...]

This weekend was busy, but I did manage to squeeze in a teeny bit of embroidery. You may recognize it, because part of it can be seen in my current blog banner. After I’d stitched the hill and flowers a while ago, I set it aside, uncertain how I wanted to finish it. This weekend [...]

Hello and thanks to all the visitors from the Creative Space game (and anywhere else you may have come from). It was nice to “meet” some new crafty types and discover some great new blogs. I tried my best to reciprocate comments and visit all the sites linked at kootoyoo, although last night was a [...]

Big wip is still … in progress. In the meantime I’m finding oodles of inspiration in all the spring that has sprung around here. This week we took a stroll through Gran’s gardens and collected some spring blooms. Then we plopped them, toddler style, into a vintage puppy vase that belonged to my great grandmother. [...]

Every so often One Pretty Thing posts a “crafty reading” roundup with links to websites that have useful advice or information for the crafty folk. I always enjoy these, and I thought to myself, “Self, since you are such an awesome blogger, so regular with your posting and always offering such intriguing and useful posts, [...]

I’ve been a little stalled. With the return of more spring-ish weather, I’ve found myself driven to tackle a host of chores that have been begging for attention, a spring cleaning of sorts. We installed ceiling fans and cleaned and organized closets and made charity piles and gave the house a much-needed scrubbing and ran [...]

As you can see, the work area looks pretty much the same as it did last time I took a photo (plus a few stray buttons). Or maybe a tad messier: I’m going to be pulling a disappearing act this week while I whip up another one of these. I’m using the same pattern and [...]

I was going to take pictures of the mounds of wadded up, used tissues overflowing from wastebaskets, stuffed in pockets, collected in little piles on side tables, to show you why I’ve been silent so long, but I decided that would just be gross. And I don’t want to spread my germs. So instead, here’s [...]

This Christmas, as friends and family were opening the gifts that I had put so much time into making for them, people kept commenting, “You really did a lot this Christmas!” or asking, “When did you find time to do all of this?” Let’s just say that, starting in early November and going straight through [...]

Public domain, 17th century artwork. Gerard van Honthorst.Adoration of the Shepherds. Image found here. As a word of crafty update, the last big embroidery project is done. It has been for a few days and I’m very happy with it. I need to get it stretched onto its frame now (it’s intended for a wall [...]