Archive for January, 2010
A Storm!
A brainstorm, that is. Oh, how I love a brainstorm: an outpouring of ideas with flashes of brilliance! Continued from yesterday… Like Shelly, I love the idea of being able to write favorite lines and titles on the bookmark. The concern about needing the suggestion to do so can be easily addressed. I like how [...]
Readergirlz Bookmark
I’ve been waffling something awful on the finishing method for the readergirlz bookmark. And don’t ask me how many samples I’ve made because I’m not telling. What do you think of this: It’s backed with card stock–Mike’s on a colored card stock mission in town tomorrow–so that we can write book titles or Lines We [...]
Behind the Scenes
I did it! I made my first on demand video class for The Stitchers’ Village. It is a Limited Edition project class. Limited Edition = for a limited time. It will only be available through the month of February. Project class means the subject is a project as opposed to a technique like Hardanger or [...]
Stitching for Literacy Update
From the Accents, Inc. 2009 Bookmark Challenge collection. Gayle’s been collecting and distributing bookmarks since the very first Challenge. The Monday “What have you done lately?” accountability post, where I announce my Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy program promotion goal for the week and fess up on last week’s goal. Last week, my goals [...]
Unsung YA Heroes
The best YA books you never read. Inspired by all the books that didn’t receive an ALA award on Monday, Kelly at YAnnabe, started what is now an extensive collection of YA titles that readers and bloggers feel have not been given their due. Kelly notes …many wonderful books get published every year without registering [...]
Weekend Site Seeing
This weekend I invite you to visit The Stitchers’ Village and join the Forum in the Tea Shoppe (building on the right as you look at the Village on the Home page). You have to be a member, but that’s just a matter of registering–easy, peasy and totally free. I’ve started a Forum in which [...]
Stealth Bunnies
We know the snowshoe hare population is at the peak of its seven-year cycle, so naturally, we’re seeing lots of hare sign: well-worn trails and scat… nibbled twigs just above the snow line. But here’s something I haven’t noticed before in all my years of nature-viewing in Alaska: I’m going to call them “forms.” Unlike [...]
In the News
In the Nordic Needle Stash Newsletter #43, to be precise. “What’s in the news?” you ask. Why, we are! Scroll down to the second part of the newsletter. Nordic Needle has been an enthusiastic participant in the Bookmark Challenge since day one, and they’re gearing up for another great year. A girl learns to stitch [...]
Leer y Escribir en Espanol
Sailing toward a new horizon? A bookmark I made for my SIL who loves to travel, in books and in real life. I’m still working on my Spanish. I continue to listen to audio instruction, but I’ve added reading and writing to my practice as well. I have a book of short stories written in [...]
ALA Awards
Winner of the 2010 John Newbery Medal, When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead. Yesterday, at something like 3:45 a.m. Alaska Time, the American Library Association announced their 2010 award winners, including the Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, Coretta Scott King, and others. I have read, uh, almost one of these books. That is to say, none. [...]
, by Ellen Ruppel Shell
, by Elizabeth Strout.
