This bookmark is two-sided. I stitched the same design (more or less) twice and stitched them back-to-back with a blanket stitch through the blanket stitches. A good library is a palace where […]

Read and Win a Disney Vacation! For a second year, Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) and US Airways are working together to help children nationwide discover the joy of reading. Starting in April, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

There is no frigate like a book…–Emily Dickinson. All right, all right. It’s a little sailboat, I know. I don’t have a frigate charm. Two days ago, I wrote about the exquisite […]