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I am taking a 'blogger's break' for a week. I will be off to Germany (Mosel region) and then France (The Alsace) for a little re...

Today has been an emotional day listening to a good friend of mine talk at her mother's funeral. I wanted to let her know through readin...

A very talented friend of mine, Francoise, shared her scissor holder with us on our stitching list. I have made the same scissor holder and ...

"All my scattering moments are taken up with my needle." ~~ 1851 diary of Ellen Birdseye Wheaton ~~ Painting: "Young Woman Se...

For some reason the blog entry on Friday for Beatrix Potter did not allow comments. I have no idea what happened but we did just switch to a...

Margaret Lane's description of Beatrix in her biography: "It was now that Sawrey began to be familiar with the spetacle of Miss Po...

After seeing how quickly my mother crocheted me a granny square afghan, which is in the mail now on its way to me, I decided the quilt for o...

Last Friday, while going through blog links, I found this sampler which has just started as a 9~part free chart. I decided right then and t...

It is once again Friday and I share a new photo of my progress on the Beatrix Potter Quaker sampler. The passion flower really seemed to ta...

Here is the quilted WIP roll completed. I finally sat down last night and sewed the bias binding on. I really love this! It contains some o...

This is the last of my new stash to show you. I ordered these items from Homespun Sampler. There are three charts including Carriage House ...

The next bit of my new stash to show you was an order from Mary Kathryn's wonderful eshop eHandcrafts.com. I ordered two of the LHN/CC t...

Don't you just love getting stash that makes your experience of needlework more pleasant! I really love the thread keepers that Jodi sel...

I just came home from my weekend at our cottage and my mother sent photos of the completed granny square afghan. This will look really nice ...

Sadly, my progress is not great this week but it is Friday and time to show you what I have done this week on the sampler and share some mor...

Here is the latest progress on granny squares afghan my mother is making for me. She was originally planning on sending me a few squares at ...

Thank you for your kind remarks on the pincushion project I showed yesterday. The quilt evening was great fun and most people had their pinc...

Nothing like changing things around at the last minute! I have had the May project for the quilt group ready for a month now so thought I wa...

The reason I am behind on my Beatrix Potter Quaker sampler can finally be revealed. While everyone was beavering away with their BP sampler ...

If you read lots of blogs, you will have noticed there is a craze going on right now with making granny squares. I don't crochet and tol...