Header Image

The header image at the top is Rainbow Row in Charleston SC. The chart itself is a design by Barbara and Cheryl. You can view the finished piece Rainbow Row.


Ben and Sara’s Wedding Sampler

Ben and Sara's Wedding Sampler

This is not the first time I have stitched this  Flowering Heart Wedding Sampler but it may be the last. My poor old eyes find it more and more difficult to stitch on 28 and 32 count fabric which is what I like to use for this sampler. I [...]

Christmas Is Forever

 

Christmas Is Forever

Christmas if Forever is the 2008 Special Edition from Lizzie Kate. I’m not a big fan of kits. The main reason being is that normally the fabric piece is not large enough for my taste AND I already have all of the DMC colors. The charts by Lizzie Kate [...]

Poinsettia House

I just ordered Poinsettia House by Little House Needleworks from my favorite on-line cross-stitch shop, 123Stitch along with a new kind of floss (new for me that is), Crescent Colours.  The pattern is described as “Soft colors, a snow hill and the flowers of the season. . . . . .poinsettias!”

Crescent Colours [...]

Poppies & Polka Dots

Poppies & Polka Dots by Ursula Michael is one of the design booklets by Jeanette Crews Designs. The various charts feature realistic poppies in shades of red complemented by soft yellow polka-dots.

I am stitching the one that shows on the bottom left at the tip of the V but as a framed [...]

Sunshine Sunflowers

A couple of days ago, I received an email newsletter from Keepsake Needlearts with information and a picture of one of their newest offerings, Sunshine Sunflowers. The description read:

Colors of the midday sun and the evening sunset radiate from the petals of these flowers bursting with joie de vivre. Counted cross-stitch kit, designed [...]