Isn’t it amazing how quickly time flies. I was just looking at when I last posted. THIRTEEN months ago! Where does the time go? I must admit, I have been primarily focused on my teaching, while my blog is primarily focused on my stitching. I am hoping that with the new financial year, I will… Read More
I love to blog. But you couldn’t tell that from the amount of blogging I have done over the last 5 or 6 years. It is minimal. I don’t like blogging about personal stuff, and there has been a lot of that going on. Divorce, kids finishing school, moving, working, rebuilding yourself after such a… Read More
Over the last 2 years I have often thought of my poor abandoned little blog. As I have struggled to deal with a massively increased workload during the day, I wanted to post, but so often I did not know what I wanted to say. I am still in that frame of mind. 2018 was… Read More
In January I finished the Stacy Nash project – and will post a photo of that once I have washed and blocked it, so I decided to pull out an old UFO – one of Lizzie Kate’s Double Flip series. I have started on the second chart – Love. It is a quick stitch, when… Read More
Over the past few weeks I have been focused on a long term project, the Maree Talbot Elizabethan Casket. Last weekend, and again Tuesday and Wednesday I attended classes at the Embroiderer’s Guild of Victoria for the 3/4th and 5th panels. Oh my goodness. Such fine work. I am absolutely loving it! I have also… Read More
Okay, so I am a little late to the party. It has been kind of busy around here lately. But more of that later. I am a big believer in goal setting. Where do I want to be in 12 months time, 5 years, even 10 years? With so much emphasis on setting goals instead… Read More
After a long hiatus from my needlework, my recent decision to take the shop to Pakenham Stitch! has brought my stitching mojo back. Over the past 6 or 7 weeks I have been working on Ann Womack, from Shakespeare’s Peddler. Originally stitched in 1838, Ann Womack is a gorgeous monochromatic sampler consisting of 5 alphabets,… Read More
Fricassee has been very good for my stitching mojo. I really want to get back to that pesky rabbit. But I have some other projects that currently need my attention. A couple of months ago I discovered that the Craft Alive event Pakenham Stitch! was coming back again this year. And major win for my… Read More
A year or so ago, I went back to the Embroiderer’s Guild of Victoria, after letting my membership drop. I went primarily to meet up with other Cabinet of Curiosities ladies. Some of these ladies were also working on another beautiful casket – ‘the other casket’, one designed by the talented Maree Talbot. They started… Read More
Since Friday I have been adding more charts to the shop. It has been kind of fun and interesting. As I go I have been coming across designs that I had forgotten about, and that I am thinking of doing. Such as Eliza Adams – a design by Primitive Things. Or Summer… Read More
