There are some stitching blogs where the authors are using them to keep a good accounting of their stitching progress.  Some of this kind of record keeping has moved to Instagram for many stitchers that I know and in the stitching circles that I move in, but I can certainly remember a time of following blogs where it was a lot about reading and seeing progress with stitching projects. I haven’t really used this space in that way for a couple of reasons.  First of all, I’ve en

I was all prepared for what I was going to write about this morning, but plans changed when I discovered something last night (so that planned topic will just get pushed off until next time…) As I think my readers know, I design cross stitch, canvaswork, and blackwork patterns and sell them as WorksByABC.  (Yes, my initials really are ABC.)  My primary venue for selling has been (and I will be continuing) my Etsy store.  However, one of my goals this fall was getting my name

(Side note before I even get started on the main focus of this blog post:  I was just googling “cross pollination” to see if it was really what I wanted to use for the title.  Because, as you can imagine, this is going to have nothing to do with fertilization of plants or anything in the gardening realm.  🙂  I was actually surprised that secondary definitions of the term – such as I am thinking about it – didn’t immediately pop up.  Basically all of the results on the first