One of my all-time favorite television shows, and one of the few shows that doesn’t fall by the wayside during the hockey season, is House Hunters. I love everything about it; I love it when there are awesome people who get awesome houses, I love it when there are tools who get toolish houses, [...]
A box arrived from Mesa, AZ recently, bearing exciting contents: finished stitching! Sandy, the framer at the Attic Needlework shop, does such a beautiful job framing stitching (and the local shops around here have consistently let us down) so all the needlework done at Maple Hoo gets packaged up and mailed cross country immediately [...]
I’m not bitterly jealous that Pookie gets to fill this blog with tales of her exquisite stitching exploits. Not at all. I could totally do that if I wanted to. Heh heh. Actually, while I’m a stitching slowpoke, I enjoy it just as much as Pookie does, but ever since we [...]
A few years ago the hot stitching piece was Carriage House Samplings “The Houses Of Hawk Run Hollow”. It was a tad more country and cutesy than I usually go for, but even I had admit that it looked like it would be so much fun to stitch, so it was added to the [...]
When the Spring Fever gets too strong too ignore, down comes the Winter Stitching and up comes the Spring pieces. Snowflakes give way to pink tulips, deer make way for rabbits, and crisp blue linens are tossed aside for soft Edinboro cream (my go-to Spring linen). These are the items that get hung [...]
Gentle Readers have been clamoring for the low down on where we find the charts and materials for the stitching projects we do. Here are some links to various resources that I use for finding and buying the supplies to fuel my stitching obsession (i.e. to make sure my stash is always in a state [...]
I returned to needlework from knitting in 2001, when I stumbled onto stitching an entire sampler in miniature by mistake. Looking for a suitable follow-up piece, I was drawn to Darleen O’Steen’s “Cranberry Sampler”, because… well, because it had squirrels on it. I have a bit of a thing for squirrels, which is [...]
My stitching renaissance occurred when I was living in Arizona, a time in my life when I found myself missing the seasons in New Jersey more than I thought possible. 365 days of sunshine made me long for the first buds of Spring, the changing leaves of Autumn, and the blustery gray days of [...]
It’s been mentioned here that Stately IPB Manor’s favoritest Christmas decoration is Boomer’s 12 Days of Christmas wall hangings. Before either Schnookie or I was born, Boomer worked with her mother to make this felt/bead/sequin masterpiece:
Each day of Christmas has it’s own felted oval, strung on four length of ribbon. My earliest memories [...]
We were raised by a handicrafter, so the single most cherished part of the entire Christmas extravaganza for us is our needlepointed stockings. For a certain type of stitcher, needlepointing a Christmas stocking is an essential part of your life experience, so Boomer naturally made us all stockings when we were kids. We [...]
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