'Funk & Weber Designs' Category
The Needlework Show is Closed
The Needlework Show is now closed. My email box is filled with receipts and messages and contest entries. I’m filling orders.
I just sent out notices to puzzle contest winners, so check your Inbox. I’ll announce the names here and on the Funk & Weber Designs Web site as soon as I get permission from the […]New Puzzle Pattern
I shifted gears over the weekend. I cleaned up the piles of puzzle books, old puzzles, dictionaries, natural history and sports trivia books. I filed the 2007 receipts and records in the deep dark cubby behind the couch in the loft. I dusted and vacuumed. I sneezed and took Sudafed.
And I stitched. And stitched. And […]New Patterns Posted
I spent many hours today updating the Funk & Weber Designs Web site. Thanks to the Needlework Nutshell newsletter, I do quick monthly updates of the home page, if nothing else, but it’s been several months since I updated more thoroughly. Notice I said “more thoroughly” and not “thoroughly.” Ahem.
I like updating the Web site: […]Still Puzzling
Yesterday, my break from sports puzzles was natural history puzzles. Today, my break from sports puzzles was a needlework puzzle. Hm, a busman’s holiday? I dug out our “new” puzzle design that was about half-stitched in early December and remains about half-stitched today.
Before we left in December, I took the piece off the frame, […]At the Show
If this show (TNNA NeedleArts Market) were a week, today would be Wednesday: I’m over the hump and will sail through the next 2 days. My 3 classes are behind me. I loved them! In fact, they are my favorite part of the show. I like the more intimate exchange between shop owners and designers […]
Whoosh!
Yikes! Is it too late to say “Happy New Year”? What does it mean that I’m Happy-New-Year-ing a week late?
I’m putting the finishing touches on TNNA preparations. Or, time is running out so I’m packing up what is prepared. Same thing.
It’s customary to reflect on the past year and to set some goals for […]What’s in a Number?
The last time I had a booth at a TNNA trade show it was number 911, as in nine-eleven. I got a call at 5 in the morning (people sometimes forget we’re in Alaska) informing me of this, and in my barely aware state I made some unsettling connections: my business was going to implode, […]
Caramel Corn at The Armchair Chef
Tink B-D over at The Armchair Chef hosted the 2007 Holiday Bake-Along, recipes and reminiscences from needlework and quilting professionals. I missed announcing the start of it here; shame on me! But of course you already watch that site since she does this regularly, and we usually submit a recipe, right? No?! Well shame on […]
Designing Feather and Fly Bracelet
As I mentioned earlier, I’m working on some zoo-themed needlework pieces. For the past few days, I’ve been playing with the feather and fly stitch idea, with a view to creating a bracelet with it. I thought I’d try to describe the process here. I wish I were at home so that I could scan […]
New Bookmark Patterns Are Here!
Phew! I can stop pacing and sweating. I can breathe without gasping. My heart rate can slow to its normal 92 beats per minute. The new patterns arrived from Cardinal Press.
After 20 minutes of struggling and failing to open the box, Mike came to my rescue with a sharp knife. Through my blurry, sweat-stinging […]
