'Personal' Category
Blog, Interrupted
Male frigate birds, breeding plumage, one displaying. That’ll be one puff and one no-puff.
Blog, Interrupted
Green hawk moth (I think). We dubbed it a “hummingmoth.”
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Swimming penguin. Sunbathing penguin.
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Tortuga (aka sea turtle). Tortuga, too.
Blog Interruption
Our regular blog program (wait…we have a regular blog program???) is being interrupted by Life. Stuff happens, you know? But rather than turn the lights off and shut the door here, I’m going to try to post some pictures I’ve been wanting to post for months. Heck, this could be the best series of posts [...]
Weekend Book Quotes
This is one of six complimentary bookmark patterns from Pine Glen Designs. A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors. ~Henry Ward Beecher I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the [...]
Extreme Stitcher
Welcome to our Extreme Reader / Extreme Stitcher series where we profile people willing to go to great lengths to read and/or stitch. Meet Mare, our first Extreme Stitcher. I’m going to let her tell her own story. Every year since my son was little we have always given his teachers gifts for Christmas and [...]
Weekend Book Quotes
A bookmark stitched by Mare, of Mare’s Runaway Needle. TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they’ll have with twenty-six. Open your child’s imagination. Open a book. ~Author Unknown We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. ~John Lubbock The love of learning, the [...]
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. Right, Maureen? Don’t worry, I’m not going to give you my gazillion answers here. Instead, I’m going to [...]
Bookmarks for Practice
Once upon a time, girls and women practiced needlework by making samplers. Samplers remain popular today, but they are not generally considered practice pieces. Rather, they demonstrate proficiency. In reality, I think few contemporary embroiderers practice. (Oooo, what does it mean to practice–there’s a topic for another day.) However, I think bookmarks are an excellent [...]
, by Ellen Ruppel Shell
, by Elizabeth Strout.
