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Jen

Anchorage Outreach

Funk & Weber Designs, Arctic Needle, and the Arctic Needleworkers embroidery guild hosted the third annual Bookmark Make-it-Take-it at the Loussac Library on Sunday in conjunction with the 2009 Bookmark Challenge. Attendees […]

The Literacy Scoop

I call this design “embroidery DNA.” I could iron out the twist, but I happen to like it. I’m making a longer one. Living as I do in two professional worlds–writing/reading and […]

Reading Roundup

What’s on my nightstand? Al Capone Does My Shirts, by Gennifer Choldenko. Al Capone and Alcatraz. Now there are two subjects you don’t see in kids’ books every day. I was immediately […]

Weekend Book Quotes

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all. –Abraham Lincoln A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must […]

Match dot Bookmark

The sunset bookmark here is from the Funk & Weber Tags for Bags, Clips for Zips: The Beach pattern leaflet. Every one of those tags can be a bookmark. * * * […]

Pocket Bookmark, Too

I had planned to make one of Sisu’s pocket bookmarks this month, but between baseball-bookmark stitching, outreach-bookmark stitching, and class-project stitching, it didn’t happen. However, ideas beget ideas, and Sisu’s project influenced […]