Mastering Mary

Mary Hurst - The Scarlet Letter I have updated the stitching notes to this point. Mary is a constant delight to work on as each motif comes ...

Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe: Spring, Easter,Primitive hand dyed trim bag give-away, enter now!

Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe: Spring, Easter,Primitive hand dyed trim bag give-away, enter now!

Progress on Elizabeth Shephard

Happy Birthday Nicola! As it was Nicola's Birthday this week I decided to dedicate IHSW to the gift she gave me for Christmas - Elizabet...

Mastering Mary

Christy has finished the whitework section and has stitched all of the eyelets - doesn't it look pretty ? I have now stitched to this po...

The Valentine's Day Giveaway ...... The winner is ..........

I am very pleased to announce that the name drawn from the hat for The Ornamental Branches book sponsored by Dawn is Theresa for her post on...

Beyond the Little X - An Interview with Ilana!

For our February interview we sit and stitch with Ilana!  She shares with us her stitching story and many of her beautiful samplers, includi...

Three Valentine Day Giveaways - a book, three charts and two silk kits of an OOP design and a mystery bonus.

Tomorrow we will be drawing Dawn's prize for the beautiful book Ornamental Branches for blog members only so to qualify please make sure...

Mastering Mary

The files have been updated to include my stitching notes up to and including this section. Detached buttonhole filling, queen and Croatian ...

Mastering Mary

This is the sixth Monday since we started Mary and we are seeing some wonderful stitching. I think we should give ourselves a round of appla...

Confessions and an Update

Good Evening! How is everyone?   I live in Eastern PA and today it was warm enough that my husband grilled dinner for us.   Tomorrow – who...