I’m hoping to take a few blog posts to go back over the last few months and share a little more in depth about some of my favorite designs.  The first one up is Knot Your Needle in Cross Stitch What I love about this most is the inspiration for the design:  a page from a sixteenth century book that I saw in an exhibit at The Getty Center in Los Angeles last year. It also happened to be a motif that was used for some of the signage and advertisement about the exhibit around th

I really do need to find a happy medium within myself to blog post writing, wanting to share various things, but also making sure I find the time to sit down to do so. For the last few weeks, ever since finishing my big Gossamer Lace in Blackwork piece, I’ve been working on Gossamer Lace in Cross Stitch. The plan for this, however, is not to stitch the full design.  I know there are some out there who have purchased this pattern from me and have been going gang-busters with t

In my last post, I shared some of the back story of one my new patterns, The Death of Susanna Jayne.  Today, I want to introduce to you Margaretha Helm. Margaretha’s Flower Basket is actually the second pattern I have put out in tribute to Margaretha’s work, so for those of you who have watched my videos or who have been following my design work since before this blog, you may recall this pattern, Margaretha’s Flower Jugs, coming out this past summer. I think common theme tha

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

Last weekend, I had the opportunity to return for a second visit to an amazing exhibit at an art museum. I was first here, the Hunterdon Art Museum, in Clinton, NJ, back in September, for the opening of “Lace not Lace: Contemporary Fiber Art from Lacemaking Techniques.” It is the first exhibit of its kind in the US – “a ground-breaking exhibition highlighting how lace makers are expanding the traditional boundaries of their art form to create exciting works that investigates