Friday 23rd October 2009 To Sunday 25th October 2009 Black Spur Inn Maroondah Highway Narbethong. Imagine… No housework No cooking No kids But Loads of … Good food Good company And Good Stitching. All meals provided Accomodation included in price $350 Book now at www.needleworkboutique.com.au Places are limited. P.S. Early bird ($250) extension until 2nd… Read More
As I frantically prepare for our church’s Girl’s Weekend I discovered that my first priority was what cross stitch to take with me. Should I take “Neighborhood”? Or should I take the Lizzie Kate Double Flips that I started on New Year’s Day? Or should I take a new project, Hand to Work’s “Ellen Myerscough”? … Read More
One of the questions that I am frequently asked is how do I find the time to do some cross stitch? With 3 kids it is not always easy, but one technique that I have found to work over the years is to always keep my needle threaded and ready to go. When I finish… Read More
Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to work on Little House Needlework’s Little House Neighborhood. As you can see I have just about completed the centre of the middle line of buildings and started on the blue house. The plant to the right of the blue house needs to have a bit of frogging… Read More
Last week I gave Melissa Khalinsky a hard time over on her blog because she spoke about working on Needlemania’s Jardin D’Jour and had not shown a picture of how much she had done. Then I realised that it has been a while since I have given an update of what I have done. So… Read More
As I think I have said previously, the 2009 Retreat is being held at the Black Spur Inn in Narbethong. Ten days ago I decided to take a trip out to Narbethong to visit the venue, just to see how good it is. (I had heard that it is a great venue!) I also wanted… Read More
I am often asked by quilters which how to books would I recommend. This became very important at Mrs Martin’s Stitching at St. George, when we were working on a particular embroidery that used woven spider web roses. Generally, I recommend the A-Z of Embroidery, put out by Country Bumpkin, to people who are new… Read More
At last! A couple of weeks ago I attended Mrs Martin’s Quilt til You Wilt. For me, although I still absolutely love my cross stitch, I find that I am more likely to do something just for me if I go to Karen’s shop. And the recent Quilt til you Wilt was no different. I… Read More
