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Continue reading →: Tucson, 2025
David and I drove to Tucson last month to visit friends. The weather was perfect, balmy in the daytime and cool at night, blue, blue skies with beautiful clouds. J and I share a mutual interest in miniatures, and so one of the first things on our list was The…
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Continue reading →: New Year News
A New Year mish-mash today, some of the little things I’ve been working on. Above, my progress on the 1:12 carpet for my third shop. The “light topaz” pops more in the photo than it does in real life. During our New Year’s Eve stroll downtown, Julia and I happened…
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Continue reading →: Not Singly But in Battalions
Projects, I mean, not sorrows, though there are a great many of those in the world these days. And it is not impossible that this jitteriness is my way of trying to cope with that. At the top is the Fereghan carpet designed by the amazing Frances Peterson, on 48-count…
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Continue reading →: “One of These Things is Not Like the Other Ones …”
Yes, I am re-reading the canon — as the Gunroom calls it, doubtless enjoying the man-of-war pun all the while. I think this is my third or fourth run-through, but I still marvel at O'Brian's writing, now spare, now elegantly discursive — this is from The Mauritius Command, listening to…
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Continue reading →: Sewing Stars
For a long time, I've had a hankering for a quilt like the one called "Kate's Stars" in Diana Boston's book about Lucy Boston's quilts — she of the "Green Knowe" series of children's novels set in and around a house much like her own ancient one at Hemingford Grey.…
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Continue reading →: This and That
Here are some of the things I've been doing lately — Crocheted dishcloths for Julia, off to university at last and living with three roommates in an apartment on the edge of campus, cooking and cleaning for themselves. Above are the Berry Stitch cloth (without its edging), the Waffle Stitch…
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Continue reading →: Two Finishes
I have finished the little embroidery kit from Hoffelt & Hooper — it's called "Charlotte" in light gray on their website, but is unnamed in their Etsy shop — the frame is from Universal Happy Gift (!) both on Etsy. My photo does not do justice to either its color…
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Continue reading →: “Virtue Outshines the Stars”
The "Virtue Outshines the Stars" sampler by Darlene O'Steen, one of my must-do pieces — about six months of fairly steady stitching. I confess that I was getting a bit weary of it towards the end, but I'm very happy with the result! I used the original DMC colors —…
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Continue reading →: Revisions, Decisions
Nearly there! I have made a few revisions to my "Virtue" as I went along, perhaps the most obvious being the top flower in the vases at the right and left sides near the bottom, which the more I looked at, the more I thought seemed a bit stingy, almost…
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Continue reading →: Yowza!
The top border is done! I'm pretty sure there's some more queen stitch left at the bottom — which is still rolled up on the frame — but this feels like a milestone!
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