Why has it been so quiet here? Well, I’ll tell you. The unpaid labor arrived. That would be Bob and Thea, Mike’s parents. We thought this chair was temporary, that we’d ditch […]
Excuses
The Ducharme Challenge
I showed you this picture a few days ago; it’s a noodle I found while searching through my stash. When I discovered it this time, I envisioned it as a bookmark, and […]
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 […]
Pocket Bookmarks
Needlework Nutshell reader and fellow stitcher, Sisu, has come up with a pocket bookmark finishing technique that I love. Just before Christmas, Sisu decided to make a bookmark for her son’s friend, […]
Making Doors
Mike’s current project is making the doors for the guest cabins. He glued together the individual boards of the doors last summer. I helped sand them. He’s routing out grooves for the […]
Holiday Mosaic-Part 5
We finished gluing tiles on New Year’s Day. The colors are a bit wonky in this light, but I hope you get the idea. We don’t have grout yet, so that will […]
