'Needle and ThREAD' Category
Weekend Book Quotes
What’s on my nightstand? Bread and Roses, Too, by Katherine Paterson. If you forced me to name a single favorite children’s author, I just might say Katherine Paterson. I’ve read many of her books, and I’ve loved every single one; there’s not a stinker or even a weak one in the bunch.
What we become depends […]
Teen Literacy
So far in the Bookmark Challenge, when we’ve talked about literacy on the blog, we’ve focused primarily on new and early readers. Nothing beats instilling an early love of reading and building a strong foundation of language and literacy, but we must continue to build on those skills if we are to make fully literate […]
Lookybook
Even if you don’t have a Sony Reader or a Kindle or an iCanDoAnything, you can read digital books. In fact, you can read picture books, cover to cover, complete with the illustrations right here online at Lookybook.
Lookybook is the brainchild of Craig Frazier, an author and illustrator of picture books, among other things. […]World Record Bookmark Collector
As I mentioned in a previous post, one of the side effects of the Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy Bookmark Challenge has been an introduction to the world of bookmark collecting. In 2006, the Guinness Book of World Records named Frank Divendal, from Alkmaar, Holland, as the owner of the largest collection of bookmarks […]
Bookmarks at Caroline’s Thread and Canvas
Caroline at Caroline’s Thread and Canvas shares with us some of the bookmarks she’s received for her Bookmark Challenge.
This bookmark was stitched by Caroline’s friend, Leonora, who recently celebrated her 90th birthday. Happy Birthday Leonora!
Check out the finishing on the back. A hem is turned under and the two edges are cross stitched together. […]Jerry Kreinik: Reading and Stitching
Jerry Kreinik–engineer, manufacturer, company founder–has never really retired, even though he is well into his 90s. For at least two hours every day, he can still be found working in his office at Kreinik Manufacturing Company (founded with his wife, Estelle, back in the early 1970s). For 10+ years, he could also be found spending […]
Weekend Book Quotes
What’s on my nightstand? Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time, by Lisa Yee.
“Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are” is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread. –François Mauriac
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. –E.P. Whipple
If you resist reading what […]Weekend Book Quotes
What’s on my mp3 player? The Willoughbys, by Lois Lowry.
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. –E.M. Forster
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. –Jessamyn West
When you reread a […]Raising Money for Literacy
The Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy program is a multi-faceted program. The annual Bookmark Challenge is just one facet. Another is raising money year-round for literacy through the sale of designated bookmark patterns.
Designated patterns are marked with a Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy logo. The logo might be rectangularor square,
and might […]
Stitch Band Bookmarks
I am on a stitch band jag, exploring their possibilities. Stitch bands are thin strips of needlework fabric: Aida, linen, and miscellaneous plainweaves. The bands are pre-finished on the long edges, making them easy to complete after working the embroidery. We see stitch bands as edgings on towels and pillowcases, as accents around baskets, candles, […]
