The Cape Stitcher

It's nice to know I have a leg up on next year's gift-giving--I've finished the mini-socks for the new baby and her 2-year-...

Moving right along!  I worked the heel and toe of the little boy's sock in a skip-tent stitch with Vineyard Silk Classic "Ho...

The background of Big Brother's stocking is finished with the addition of candy cane stripes in Vineyard Silk Classic "Holly...

The checkerboard pattern behind the little girl penguin is finished!  The diagonal rows of Scotch stitch in Vineyard Silk Classic "Br...

Pete the Penguin is ready for the finisher!  The date was worked in tent stitch with Kreinik #12 tapestry braid #003HL.  Trio "Real...

Pete the Penguin now has a body!  Like every other character in my Penguins on Parade series, his outer body has been stitched in basketwe...

Pete has a background now, worked in a woven stitch with Kreinik #12 tapestry braid #032.  The woven stitch compensates easily around the ...

For the last few years, I've stitched a dated ornament for each of our sons.  In the appropriate years, I worked up ornaments represen...

Thanks to everyone who left a comment yesterday about The Nutcracker series! It's interesting to see how different designs appeal to di...

The Cinco de Mayo party is over for little Pedro the penguin, but he's recovering nicely in his completed habitat! Using DMC #5 perle co...

Pedro the penguin is decked out in his finery for the Cinco de Mayo fiesta! Before I could dress him, I needed to finish his body, adding th...

As eager as I am to stitch Pedro the penguin himself, I was a good girl and worked the background first! I needle-blended the sky with DMC c...

It's only two days to Cinco de Mayo, Spanish for "the fifth of May," a celebration of Mexican culture and heritage. On that d...

Isn't it funny how things change as you get older? When I was a kid, summer was my favorite season: school was out, and my friends and...

Petunia Penguin and I wanted to wish you a Happy May Day! Here on the Cape, flowers are taking their good sweet time to pop. Hopefully, by...

Yesterday, I was itching to stitch my newest project, and went looking for the stretcher bars to mount it. Occupying pride of place on thos...