What can I say? - it was wonderful to be participating in my first wholesale needlework market last weekend. Just to catch folks up, as I wrote here, the Nashville Needlework Market - which is the wholesale in-person shopping experience for store owners and designers that typically takes place at the beginning of March -... Continue Reading →
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 →
Today I'm sharing the fourth of my five new patterns for Needlework Expo. You can read all about this event in my last few posts. Here is Lake: If it looks vaguely familiar, it might be because you are remembering Landscape, a pattern that debuted at Nashville Market last year (2020). I was inspired to... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 know... Continue Reading →
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, in... Continue Reading →
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. I... Continue Reading →
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 to... Continue Reading →
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 a... Continue Reading →
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 geared... Continue Reading →
