The Cape Stitcher

Here is our lighthouse tree for 2016, with 99 lighthouse ornaments and holding!  We were going through some home remodeling in the last e...

Yesterday I taught a class at a meeting of the Cape Cod chapter of the American Needlepoint Guild on how to stitch skies using the techniq...

Sometimes when you're on a stitching roll, you work straight through until the piece is done.  Such was the case for the Highland lig...

I finished stitching the sky behind Highland lighthouse (left) using the needle-blending technique.  The same four values of blue--DMC...

The second lighthouse that needs to be updated is Cape Cod lighthouse in Truro, Massachusetts, almost at the tip of Cape Cod.  The first of ...

The "new and improved" Nobska lighthouse is finished, with the addition of the keepers' houses and the grass. Roof shingl...

The Nobska lighthouse is stitched now , using DMC #5 perle cotton Blanc for the tower and #310 for the lantern room and gallery below.  T...

I've begun stitching the updated Nobska lighthouse model a little differently than usual, starting first with the needle-blended sky....

An intensified work schedule has prompted me to rearrange my stitching priorities:  the Toyland Rocking Horse canvas, which I was stitc...

Today is National Lighthouse Day! To mark the occasion, I'm highlighting lighthouses of the Cape and Islands from my collection. Top ro...

I received an e-mail the other day from Sally, a stitcher in Florida for whom I'd adapted to needlepoint the Ushuaia lighthouse in Argen...

I've finished stitching the Bass Harbor Head lighthouse ornament for my friend, and thought it would be fun to do a side-by-side compari...

More progress on Bass Harbor Head lighthouse--it now has trees! This time around, I used a diagonal oblong cross stitch, an amazingly versat...

The tower and outbuildings of the Bass Harbor Head lighthouse are now finished! The roof and gallery around the lantern room were worked in ...

I've finished needle-blending the sky around the Bass Harbor Head lighthouse. If you recall, I was working seven canvas rows deep in ba...

It's been a busy week: the column for the upcoming Needlepoint Now issue was approved and the next column submitted, plus an order to p...

Once upon a time, I was a monogamous stitcher: I'd never start a new project until the current one was finished. Those days are long g...

Stitching time for me has been limited lately, but I've finally finished the Seguin Island lighthouse! Since my last post, I resumed wor...

Since my last post, I've finished needle-blending the sky behind the Seguin Island lighthouse. I'd ended with four strands of DMC fl...

First up in stitching the Seguin Island lighthouse canvas were the granite blocks of the tower. These were worked with white DMC #5 perle c...