I've been embroidering since I was a kid and there is only one type of embroidery hoop I know; a round wood one with a screw for tighten...

We've either had weather too hot to go outside, or too much rain to go outside. Either way we've been mostly stuck in the house inst...

I mentioned that I was planning on more embroidered landscapes and I purchased several adult colouring books of landscapes for this purpose....

As if getting hit by a car wasn't enough, the following Saturday we noticed that although the air conditioning was on, the house was get...

Not too long after we got my hubby his scooter we were T-boned. The passenger side of the car was crumpled in, all of the air bags deployed ...

 For Christmas 2019 hubby and I bought each other folding scooters. (Folding scooters mean that you can fold them and carry them in one hand...

 I have just realized that a post I thought I had done some time ago is still sitting unpublished on my computer. During our enforced home l...

I've been busy. Really. I have. I just haven't taken time to blog about it. Way back when the pandemic started I decided to embroide...

This is another of the bookmarks with a 4 ring motif as a base. This one also has the motifs joined in a square rather than a diamond. The v...

I outlined some of the things we did in the past year and my sweetheart has uploaded a lot of work-in-progress pictures of our activities. I...

This is another bookmark based on a square 4 ring motif. I found what I thought was the pattern in my archive but when I started counting st...

OK I'm out of practice and keep forgetting things that I ought to include like the starting point and the direction of work, and how to ...

I'm half way through finishing off my collection of bookmarks. These were just little bits I tatted while watching TV just to keep my ha...

One of the things that I tat a lot of are bookmarks. They're fun frivolous quick little bits of tatting that are nice to have on hand fo...

In 2007 I started embroidering 8x8 inch squares in butterflies, thinking that I'd make enough for a quilt. After I'd done a few, and...

 It's gorgeous, I love it, but I'm keeping the windows open to air the house out and cut down on the fumes.  We used gel stain on th...

It's September again. I feel like I'm coming up for air after a year of non-stop activity. We wanted to replace the old broadloom th...