I hate coming up with titles. Can you tell?

Happy New Year to all of you. I hope to see more of you in person this year!

I’m still not feeling well at all, so I haven’t been online much. Despite that, my wrists have been aching as if I were working again. How does that happen?

Our Yule was quietly pleasant. I hope your winter holiday was as good.


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The Stitching Bloggers Question of the Week:
Do you currently subscribe to any stitching publications or have you in the past? (Either in print or online) If so, which ones?

I don’t subscribe to any at the moment, and I rarely buy them off the rack. I have hundreds of them in my stash, and I keep meaning to go through and just keep the designs I’m ( Read more... )

This week’s Stitching Bloggers Question of the Week:

For seasoned stitchers: Define a stitching term or acronym for new
stitchers.

Gah. I don’t play in the needlework newsgroup anymore, so I don’t think in acronyms. Railroading is the only term that I can think of that wasn’t obvious or explained in a pattern’s instructions. There’s a decent ( Read more... )

And another Stitching Blogger Question of the week, which should leave me all caught up:

Do you have any pieces that you would liked passed on to future
generations as family heirlooms?

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And another Stitching Blogger Question:

How do you handle blended threads? Do you kit the blends up before you
start a piece, or do you grab what colors you need and blend when the
need arises? If you kit up the blends beforehand, how do you store
them? Do you have another option for blends to share?

I can’t remember the last time I did a piece ( Read more... )

There are times when being graphic-impaired really does annoy me.

I’m finally moving forward with porting the Heartsong Handicrafts site to WordPress. It shouldn’t be a big deal. I’ve done the same many times before with other sites.

Unfortunately, I don’t have a logo. I mean, I have a simple logo, but it isn’t very good. It doesn’t sing, that’s ( Read more... )

Yay! Another Stitching Bloggers’ Question:

What items do you consider essential to your needlework that you keep
in your stitching bag

The pattern, fabric, and ring of floss cards for my current project, the scroll bars or Q-Snaps or hoop or whatever I’m using (I seldom stitch in hand), and a long silver chain on which I wear my scissors and needle ( Read more... )

First, I’ll answer this week’s SBQ:

What do you do with your charts once you’ve stitched them? Do you keep them or dispose of them? If you keep them, do you organize them in a way that is different from the way you keep your unstitched charts?

I keep them. ALL of them. In fact, Sam has pointed out that collecting charts should be considered ( Read more... )