I love the postbox


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I am a bit like a big kid when I spot those little cards that inform me that a parcel is waiting to be collected at the parcel counter. I scurry in to post office and wait impatiently in line to see what it is. On Friday it was actually …

Encyclopedia of Needlework online


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I discovered Therese de Dillmont’s “Encyclopedia of Needlework” on project Gutenburg. This book is a needlework classic so I was delighted to discover it is freely available. I trawl old books like this for stitch varieties and stitches that are no longer in common use. Often too stitches are referred …

Counted Cross Stitch Show


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I received an email recently from Heather an editor Needlework Craft Gossip about the American National Counted Cross Stitch Show. Those in the States will find the link of interest so I thought I would pass it on.

Wednesday Wisp Reduction Report


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Once again it is time for my weekly WISP report. This weeks block is actually a block for a quilt that is being made up as a gift for someone. I don’t think she swings by here often, and I think she has no idea that a quilt is being …

CQ Mag Online is out


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CQ Mag Online is out. This is a great issue one of the highlights being a much needed article by Allison Aller – a finalist in “The $100,000 Quilting Challenge” – on how to back a heavily embellished quilt so that it wont sag or distort. In the same issue …

A Jewel tone block completed for Wednesday


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Waving again with a report on what I have been stitching this week. (Turns and waves in all four directions and then does it again just in case I miss anyone out) This idea of reporting weekly as part of Sandie’s UFO and WISP challenge is certainly making me focus …

Craft Redefining itself


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I received an email from Linda of Chloes Place pointing me to an interesting article in the Age. Crafty business points to the changing landscape for craft practitioners. There are a number of factors discussed as aiding the shift which I have explored more fully over in Mindtracks this morning. …