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 […]

I’m sure there are other bookmarks arriving in other shops, but these are ones we have pictures of thanks to Gayle at Accents, Inc. Here’s one of mine. It’s an original design […]

Needleworkers are readers. I surveyed some needleworkers to see what they are reading and got this from Janet Perry, of Napa Needlepoint and Nuts-about-Needlepoint. I am reading War & Peace in the […]

This is the other book I’m reading at the moment: Keeping Faith, by Jody Picoult. It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with […]

There is significance to the picture this time: it’s one of the books I’m reading now. Twisted, by Laurie Halse Anderson. Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and […]