The Cape Stitcher

This time of year, it's easy to get pulled in any number of different directions, and stitching often takes a back seat.  But I did f...

Plowing along on the background, I finally stitched enough to add the lettering in tent stitch with Vineyard Silk Classic Foliage. I...

My goal in the last week was to stitch enough background so I'd clear the outside rays of the sun.  With that accomplished, I filled ...

This is just a little piece--about five in. by seven in.--so I wanted to keep the stitching fairly simple.  I started the background in b...

One last finish for 2013!  I picked up the completed baby block yesterday at my LNS.  The little ornament is a gift for a friend's ne...

Another deadline met!  The finished Baby block went to my LNS yesterday afternoon, right after having its picture taken. The threads, al...

A time out from the Santa canvas--I need a baby gift!  A dear friend's daughter is expecting her first child, and I've been mullin...

Hooray! I finally made it over to my LNS yesterday and picked up two skeins of DMC floss #825. Now the little fish canvas is REALLY finish...

The "pool" of blue around it still isn't finished, but my little fish is all done! I wanted to use various shades of blues and...

My goal in stitching this little fish canvas was to pull all the threads I needed from my stash--I've dropped a lot of money at my LNS s...

I zipped along with the Nobuko stitch for the background until I got close to the top of the fish itself. Decision time: what threads shou...

When all the slanted gobelin stitches and basketweave were worked on the border, I added the final touch: a series of diamond ray stitches ...

I started work on the border for the little fish using DMC #5 perle cotton #807 in a slanted gobelin stitch over three threads, then repeate...

Last weekend, I needed to paint a cylindrical ornament canvas to fill an order. With 98 different charts to sort through, it took a while t...

Yesterday was a mixed-bag day, but a good one! I began the day with a trip to my LNS, Town-Ho Needleworks, shopping list in hand as if I we...

No, the recent heat and humidity haven't affected my mind yet--I know it's the second week of July! But I've been busy painting...

Little Humpty Dumpty is finished--just shy of popping in some initials when my neighbor's new granddaughter is born at the end of August...

Humpty Dumpty is well-anchored now that his wall is finished! As I mentioned in my previous post, the bricks were worked in a cashmere stit...

Humpty Dumpty is finally a well-dressed egg! His pants were worked with DMC cotton floss #444 in a vertical slanted gobelin stitch over two...

Humpty Dumpty is now sitting beneath a needle-blended sky! Beginning at the top of the canvas, using four plies of DMC cotton floss #827, I...