Archive for March, 2008
A Needleworker’s Nightstand
Needleworkers are readers. I surveyed some needleworkers to see what they are reading and got this from Janet Perry, of Napa Needlepoint and Nuts-about-Needlepoint.
I am reading War & Peace in the new translation (out in November 2007) by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkonsky. I’ve read it four times before, so it’s not as […]Weekend Book Quotes
This is the other book I’m reading at the moment: Keeping Faith, by Jody Picoult.
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. –Leigh Hunt
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is […]Weekend Book Quotes
There is significance to the picture this time: it’s one of the books I’m reading now. Twisted, by Laurie Halse Anderson.
Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested. –Francis Bacon
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The […]Arctic Needle Brilliant Idea
Meet Karen, owner of Arctic Needle in Anchorage, Alaska. (See? This is what can happen if you don’t send me a picture. It was a tossup between this one and one of a crocodile with mud on its head. I went with the AK animal.)
Arctic Needle has for three years now been my LNS […]An Accents, Inc. Alteration
A big source of satisfaction in needlework comes from personalizing our creations. Not only do we stitch projects with our own hands, but we often adapt patterns to our individual tastes and purposes. Gayle, owner of Accents, Inc., has adapted our Funk & Weber Designs Wild About Reading pattern for herself, her customers, her state […]
Bold VS Shy Bookmarks
There is a form vs function issue with bookmarks that I’d like to discuss. The primary purpose of a bookmark is to mark one’s place in a book. A bookmark without that purpose is what–a paperweight? A tongue depressor? A hat? Bookmarks need to serve their purpose, first and foremost. (Don’t we all?)
However, as Dena […]Succeed to Read
The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play.
So we sat in the house all that cold, cold, wet day.
I sat there with Sally. We sat there, we two.
And I said, “How I wish we had something to do!”
-from The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss -Thirty-eight percent of all fourth graders […]
Dena’s Bookmark Collection
Meet Dena from Kreinik Mfg. Co., Inc., makers of great glittery metallic fibers that come on the coolest spools in the industry. Honestly, my Kreinik fibers are the only ones that stay neat, tidy, and organized. Kreinik also makes wonderful silk fibers, iron-on fibers, and tons of other fun craft items. This is from Dena:
I […]Weekend Book Quotes
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. –George Eliot
Read in order to live. –Gustave Flaubert
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. –Henry David Thoreau
Reading a book is […]Weekend Book Quotes
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. –Richard McKenna
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. –Barbara Tuchman
In a real sense, people who […]
