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

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

(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