Posted in Charlestown, Personal, family on January 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
On Saturday my grandson Caleb and his wife Lauryth arrived here (Baltimore) from Seattle for a three-day visit. Turn on your speakers to enjoy the videos.
They were married in August but I, of course, was unable to travel to Seattle to be there. Having them come here was even better because if I had been [...]
Posted in Dorothy, friends on January 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In response to email and comments she has received, Dorothy sent me this message:
This is such a nice thing for people to do. Makes me believe in all the good people in America that I always knew were out there. Thank you all. dorothy.
I am sending angels to the VA home in Scranton and [...]
Posted in Dorothy, friends on January 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
please tell all of the wonderful people “thank you for the wonderful responses”. an extra “yes” for the one praying for me. . i am downhill sliding right now and having problems turning it around. my sincere love to all. dorothy
When I am not being productive, not creating something, not working, I feel dissatisfied. That’s the way I’ve been feeling for a few weeks. The only stitching I’ve done has been utilitarian–making potholders (which I did embroider, very simply), and doing alterations and mending. I’ve made little progress in my Blake study. Things have come [...]
Posted in Stitching, design, hand embroidery on January 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Now that you’ve seen my miniature space, I’ll show you some miniature stitched studies.
Here are two quick warm up sketches I did for My View.
If you look closely, you will see little frames around small sections of the sketches. After I had stitched My View, my teacher (a subject for a later post) [...]
Posted in Personal, workroom on January 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Some months ago, Annie Whitsed showed us the new design for her studio and progress in getting it re-organized. Sharon B has shown us her work room and ways she organizes her supplies, tools, and materials in several posts. Most recently, she cleaned out her work room for her “fiber diet weigh-in.”
Last fall Allie showed [...]
Posted in Stitching, book reviews, design, hand embroidery on January 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Sharon B started a conversation about Constance Howard, and I want to join in. Elizabeth then asked for more information about Howard and Kay responded with pictures of and from her books with links to sites for further material on Constance Howard.
She is a favorite teacher of mine, too. I have The Constance Howard [...]
Posted in blogging, friends on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thank you, Allie, for including me in your list of bloggers whom you enjoy. Immediately I began making my own list:
Allie, Vero, ElizabethM, Sharonb, Kay, Marty, Annie, MaureenB, Maureen, Ruth, Karen, Neki, RachelM, Mary, Conni, Pat, Nancilynn, Barbara….
But then I thought about how long it would take me to choose ten (because I could list [...]
Posted in CFS, Dorothy, friends on January 7, 2008 | 7 Comments »
For Christmas she bought, packed, and shipped nine boxes of goodies to an Army unit serving in Iraq.
Some time ago I wrote about my friend Dorothy’s bead angels. She sends them to “forgotten people in America” as she says: children in hospitals, the elderly, the handicapped, and people in military service. Because she was a [...]
Posted in Stitching, art, hand embroidery on January 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
About three weeks ago Sharonb wrote about slow cloth, a movement to encourage hand-making things slowly, with intention, rather than as a pastime to produce something quickly. In the article about the exhibit, Tapestry in the Baroque, I read this:
“For a time it seemed impossible to muster the resources of material and skill that had [...]
