Clik here to view.
Peaceful Paradise: Before and After
Happy Sunday! We've entered deep summer here in Virginia, so the best thing to do (unless you're a watermelon), is to stay indoors in the A/C and stitch. After a quick trip to the farmers market this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Snippets
Happy Sunday, all! Thanks for your well wishes and hints for Tom's knee surgery. Thank you, Deborah, for sharing the reality. The surgery has been accomplished, and it is a painful ordeal, but he's...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What to Leave In, What to Leave Out
Greetings, all! Things are busy here. Tom is getting himself a brand-new knee Tuesday, so we've been prepping for the operation, the hospital stay and recovery at home along with a big heaping helping...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Leg-O-Mutton
Happy Sunday, everyone! The wicked blizzard delivered an unexpected and much appreciated consequence of all the snow we received last weekend: the federal government, whose openings and closing my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Snow
Greetings from Siberia, all! You might have heard we had just a bit of snow in the Washington, DC area. We live a little south of the Beltway, so we got a bit less--maybe 20 inches. It was quite a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bird Tree
Happy Sunday, all! I'm happy to say it's a three-day weekend. I've put the time to good use with stitching, of course. I finished up this Blackbird Design: "Bird in Hand."The next bird, which I started...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Block(head) of the Month Club
Happy Sunday! Thank you so very much for welcoming me back with your kind comments on last week's post. Since I had nearly a full year to accumulate some projects and progress, I thought I would do...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Article 6
Happy First Sunday in the New Year, all! I've noticed a lot of former bloggers blogging again, and I thought I'd join in. I really would like to post a bit more often--Facebook is fine, but not as...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ice Ice Baby
We're having a lovely long ice storm here in Virginia today, so today was a cozy stitching day. The house is warm and I'm making a pot roast using hard cider as the braising liquid (Angry Orchard--a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Starting Anew
Happy New Year, all! I haven't really disappeared from the blog world; if you read In Stitches' blog, I post there more or less regularly--although I haven't made it to the shop as much as I'd like...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Remembering Elvis
Happy Sunday, all! First of all, in answer to a couple of questions I received about my banner photo: the name of the piece is "Alphabetissimo," by Papillon Creations. I mentioned in my last post that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Round Here
Hi, guys! It's been a while, but in the waning hours of my three-day weekend, I thought I would catch you up on what's on my Q-snaps. Those who know me as a "serious" stitcher might be surprised to see...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Long Ago and Far Away and a Queen Stitch or Two
Hi, all! I've missed you. You know how, when you extoll your car's virtues "car never breaks down, works great, has 200,000 miles and has circled the moon without a problem," it kicks you in the butt...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Calm Sea, Prosperous Voyage (With Apologies to Mendelssohn)
Belated Christmas greetings, all! I have been reading but not posting. It's been busy, and now things have quieted down just a bit, so there's finally time to do a semi-coherent post. I haven't been...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Old Friends
Hi, all! Time has been speeding up, I think, since Thanksgiving. We went to the Cape for the holiday, joining a zillion other people on the highway: 11 hours up; 13 hours back as we hit...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Super Mojo
Hi, all! Whatever the opposite of no stitching mojo is, I have it. I want to stitch all day, every day, and it's frustrating me to have to do mundane non-stitching related things like going to work and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What I Need is a Nap
Greetings, all! Long time no see--I've been busy and then sick and then busy and a bunny was sick, so there hasn't been much time or will to post. We had an early bout of the flu here in spite of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gingham Dog, Calico Cat and Stalin Rabbit
Hi, all! It has been raining steadily here for nearly a week, so my photos are a little off today, but here's what I've accomplished since my last post: I've mentioned that I want to finish up some old...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Trimming
Happy Sunday! Today has been busy, but I have a little finish to show you. I started it yesterday, and today it's done! It is "French Country--Scaredy Cats" by JBW Designs. It's from 2010; I ran across...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pumpkins for Cathey
Pink wants to share his pumpkin with Cathey. For Cathey's story, go here. Thank you, Daffycat, for organizing Cathey's Blogiversary. Cathey, I realized when going through my stash that I didn't have a...
View Article
![[imports/adg/photos/213899875_Police-Car-Lights-2.jpg]](http://wehco.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/imports/adg/photos/213899875_Police-Car-Lights-2_t600.jpg?4326734cdb8e39baa3579048ef63ad7b451e7676)
![Suupeas – Fall in Dream (2026-10-09) [Single, FLAC 24bit/48kHz]](http://getimg.link/images/2026/10/17/442240.md.jpg)