Archive for May, 2009
Reading Roundup
What’s on my nightstand? Two Girls of Gettysburg, by Lisa Klein. I loved this book. It drew me to bed early, so I’d have more time to read. I went to Gettysburg College, and I walked through the town and battlefield a good bit, picnicked and studied on Little Round Top and at the seminary. [...]
Funk & Weber Winner
I’m still waiting to get bookmark counts from participating shop owners, so I have no total to offer yet, but I do have the winner of the Funk & Weber Designs Bookmark Design Contest. Stitchers were invited to design an original bookmark using elements from any Funk & Weber pattern. The winner is… stitched by [...]
The Ducharme Challenge
I showed you this picture a few days ago; it’s a noodle I found while searching through my stash. When I discovered it this time, I envisioned it as a bookmark, and pulled it out to work on it. Here it is now. I combined it with the earlier Needlework DNA bookmark idea, and here [...]
Challenge Deadline
Breaking news: Roads near independent needlework shops participating in the Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy 2009 Bookmark Challenge are backed up for miles as talented and generous needleworkers across the country make the journey to deliver their hand-stitched bookmarks before the day is over. The bookmarks will be donated to libraries and schools and [...]
Reader Role
Shelly’s comment on Sunday’s Reading Roundup got me thinking again (which was the point, of course) about the role the reader plays in a story. I find the processes of writing and reading endlessly fascinating. An author never writes the whole story. We draft character sketches and histories, details that never make it into the [...]
Contest Reminders
Just four more days to get your bookmarks to participating shops. I have no idea how many have been collected; I’m dying to find out! I want to remind you that entries for the Funk & Weber Designs Bookmark Design contest must be received by May 7. Design your own bookmark using elements from any [...]
Reading Roundup
What’s on my nightstand? Cut, by Patricia McCormick. Once again, I’m going to contradict myself–I am such a liar! Cut is a problem novel. The title pretty much says it all, so I knew that going in, even though I didn’t read the jacket copy. I claim to not like problem novels, but I loved [...]
Weekend Book Quotes
Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. –Author Unknown A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of [...]
NaPiBoWriWee
And you thought we were through with these. Bwa-ha-ha! Actually, we are. If you haven’t subscribed to The Needlework Nutshell after all the nagging, and you want to know about the finishing process of the past zillion bookmark images, I’m afraid you’re out of luck. Too bad, so sad. Unless, of course, you want to [...]
, by Ellen Ruppel Shell
, by Elizabeth Strout.
