My friend, Cathy, teaches 7th and 8th grade math and science. For a long time, she sponsored Muffin Monday in the teachers’ lounge at her school. On Sunday evening she made muffins […]

What’s on my mp3 player? A Great and Terrible Beauty, by Libba Bray, narrated by Jo Wyatt. Add Jo Wyatt to my Favorite Narrators list. I think the health of our civilization, […]

I finished Keeping Faith this week and began Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver. My friend, Shelly, gave me this book a million years ago, and I’ve started it twice before. This time […]

Everyone, meet Caroline from Caroline’s Thread and Canvas in Ashland, VA. Oh wait. That’s right. Caroline didn’t send me a picture. But she did send me this post, and I am grateful […]

In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been soliciting thoughts on reading and stitching and lists of favorite books from members of the needlework community. Here’s a response from Doug Kreinik, owner of […]

Funk & Weber Designs has released four Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy bookmark patterns to date. Three of the four are shown as 2-sided pieces, like fobs. Of course they don’t […]