'Needle and ThREAD' Category
Stitching for Literacy Update
Maureen’s card stock window bookmark. This was inspired by one of the Bookmark Tips posts from the 2010 Bookmark 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. Having fallen off [...]
Blog Schedule
Whoops! I’ve fallen off the blog horse. I am unhurt, I assure you. I’ll be back on Monday, and I hope you’ll meet me here so we can catch up with things stitchy, literary, gardeny, and Alaska-y. Have a good rest-of-the-week!
It Takes Just One
Besides “how do I finish my bookmarks,” another question I often hear is “how can I get involved?” Just as there are a gazillion answers to the first question, there are a gazillion answers to the second. Don’t worry, I’m not going to give you my gazillion answers here. Instead, I’m going to introduce you [...]
Bookmark Count
Yippee! Numbers are slowly rolling in from the 2010 Bookmark Challenge. We’ll be updating this number throughout the year as different participants complete their programs. In case you haven’t heard, we’re Stitching for Literacy year-round now. Hmm, we’re going to need a calendar here so we can see who’s doing what when. Bookmarks at Fancy [...]
One + One + One (Part 3)
While It Takes Just One person to get a Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy ball in motion, imagine what happens when Just One meets another One and another One. As you know from parts 1 and 2, Karen, from Arctic Needle, collected bookmarks for Mountain View Elementary School, and Marian stepped up, single-handedly stitching [...]
One + One + One (Part 2)
While It Takes Just One person to get a Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy ball in motion, imagine what happens when Just One meets another One and another One. As you know from yesterday’s post, Karen, from Arctic Needle, was collecting bookmarks for Mountain View Elementary School. Jane, the librarian at the school, hoped [...]
One + One + One (Part 1)
While It Takes Just One person to get a Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy ball in motion, imagine what happens when Just One meets another One and another One. Meet Karen from Arctic Needle in Anchorage, Alaska. Karen has been on board the Stitching for Literacy program since day one. You may think she [...]
Children’s Book Week
It’s the week we’ve been stitching for: Children’s Book Week. Official events are planned all over the country. Check with your local schools and libraries to see what they might have planned. And if, like me, you live far away from such celebrations, plan your own DIY celebration. I’m celebrating this week by designating an [...]
LTS Contest Winner
Announcing the winner of the Loose Thread Stitchers / Stitch Your Heart Out Bookmark Challenge contest winner! Did you send Colleen pictures of the bookmarks you stitched and donated? If so, the winner might be you. The prize includes over $500 in stitching stash, including 136 Skeins of Gentle Art Fibers 12 pack of Olde [...]
Creating Creatives, Part 8
Literacy and Stitching by Linda Stanek What is literacy, and how does stitching tie in? Literacy is often thought of as being the ability to read and write. It’s also the ability to comprehend what you have read. As all of Bloom’s taxonomy is practiced in the process of stitching, just as it is used [...]
