'Needle and ThREAD' Category
New Puzzle Pattern Contest–Day 2
Along with her (correct) answer to the puzzle, I got a series of questions yesterday from Julia which I’m going to boil down to this: What is this crazy blog about, anyway? That’s not a quote; Julia was curious and very polite. I will attempt to answer her questions now, since some of you may […]
I Was Hacked!
Or something. Well, not me, exactly, but this blog.
Yesterday, friend and faithful reader, Becca, informed me that for 2 or 3 days she’d been receiving a virus warning when logging into this blog. Since she’d waited that long, the chances of it being a hiccup in the system seemed slim.
I logged out and […]2008 Bookmark Challenge Results
The results for the Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy 2008 Bookmark Challenge are in.
Last year we collected and donated 429 hand-stitched bookmarks.
This year, we collected…quiet drum roll…followed by a tense, concerned look from our gorgeous host with strategically tousled hair (no, silly, not me–there’s no strategy to my tousled hair)…followed by a […]Results: Children’s Choice Book Awards
The Children’s Book Council and the International Reading Association asked, and kids all over the country answered. The winners of the 2008 Children’s Choice Book Awards are:
For grades K-2: Frankie Stein, written by Lola M. Schaefer, illustrated by Kevan Atteberry (Marshall Cavendish)
For grades 3-4: Big Cats by Elaine Landau (Enslow Publishers)
For grades 5-6: Encyclopedia Horrifica […]Funk & Weber Designs New Puzzle Pattern Update
I’m awaiting final bookmark counts from three shops and more pictures from Nordic Needle.
In the meantime, I have some exciting news to report: I’ve finished stitching the New Puzzle Pattern.
Those are three separate links to previous posts about this pattern, and I didn’t even get back to the earliest ones. This pattern has been in […]Children’s Book Week
Happy Children’s Book Week!
How will you celebrate? Check with your local library and/or school to see if they are planning events.
The Children’s Book Council offers 25 Ideas for celebrating Children’s Book Week. One of my favorite suggestions is to work some Children’s Book Week puzzles. Big surprise, eh? Another of my favorites is to […]While We Wait…
As we await final bookmark numbers from participating shops, I am contemplating how to have a party on a blog. It feels as though there should be some sort of celebration here at the end of the Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy 2008 Bookmark Challenge, a gala event, a blowout, a big to-do, but […]
First Book + eBay Foundation = Community Gives
First Book has teamed with the eBay Foundation, the charitable arm of eBay Inc., for Community Gives, an “online fundraising campaign designed to engage the eBay Community in supporting First Book’s mission to provide new books to the children who need them most.”
First Book is one of three nonprofit organizations the eBay community has chosen […]2008 Bookmark Challenge: The Last Day
Today is the last day to get bookmarks to participating shops for the Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy 2008 Bookmark Challenge. Shop owners will be delivering the bookmarks to their libraries, schools, and literacy programs in time for Children’s Book Week next week. I will tally and post results here as shop owners provide […]
National Library Legislative Day(s)
On May 13 & 14, librarians and library supporters will descend on Washington D. C. to advocate for libraries.
Did you know that:
U.S public library cardholders outnumber Amazon customers worldwide by 3 to 1.
Reference librarians in the nation’s public and academic libraries answer more than 8 million questions weekly. Standing single file, the line […]
