Monthly Archives: February 2021

If you’ve been with me this week, you’ve seen my last few posts here have been sharing with you my new designs that will be debuting at Needlework Expo in just a week! Today is the final of these five patterns – Matzo Cover Let me get this out of the way right away –Continue reading “Last New Pattern for Needlework Expo – Matzo Cover”

Today I’m sharing the third of my five Needlework Expo releases. You can see and read about Renaissance Band Sampler here and Rosebud Lace here. I present to you today Evolution: My designing interests go in a number directions and one of them is geometrically inspired patterns. This is one such one. To be specific,Continue reading “Needlework Expo Reveal – Evolution”

I’ve written about the Needlework Expo coming up next weekend here and here – so feel free to go back and get the background information if you need it 🙂 Today, I want to share with you my next new design – Rosebud Lace. If you are familiar with my designing style, you will knowContinue reading “Another Reveal for Expo – Rosebud Lace”

If you haven’t heard, there is an exciting event happening in a week and half (March 6 – 8) – Needlework Expo! This is a virtual wholesale-only market experience, primarily focused on the cross stitch industry. It is like Nashville Needlework Market – which typically takes place at the beginning of March, in person, inContinue reading “Time for Needlework Expo Reveals!”

In my last post, I wrote about finally FFO’ing (fully finishing) a piece that I had designed and stitched last year, but finally got into a frame. Well, this story goes back WAY further than just last year. At my best guess, about ten years ago I was working on a cross stitch project. IContinue reading “A finish that was a long time coming”

I’m currently in the process of finishing all of my Needlework Expo releases – i.e. everything is done except for the pieces at the framer’s, which I am hoping to pick up soon. While I was assembling these pieces that have been worked on for the last few months, I decided it was time toContinue reading “Finally Framed!”

I have a few finishes to share from the last month or so and it is time that I do so. A couple of months back, I wrote about the Hardanger piece that I was working on. It was a much needed project, just a break from my own designs and cross stitch for aContinue reading “Hardanger Finish”

Well, I have once again let too much time pass between posts. Ah, well – such is life. At the beginning of January, there was an announcement about the Nashville Needlework Market, the once-a-year in-person wholesale shopping experience for needlework stores, with the specific focus on cross stitch. (There are other markets that are gearedContinue reading “Needlework Expo in March!”