A few weeks ago I mentioned that I had been working on Strictly Christmas’s Squatty Santa with Cats. At first I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with him to make him special. Ultimately I did decide what to do and it all worked. He is darling! I started with the basics. Santa’s face, […]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Really great finishing takes the cake! There is nothing more exciting than receiving a box from a finisher and opening it to see your beautiful needlework transformed. It is now neat and pressed and blocked and trimmed and embellished and GORGEOUS! You love it all over […]

Talk about a treasure box! Raymond Crawford designed this happy canvas for all of us stitching fiends. It was great fun to stitch in all of it’s Lily Pulitzer colors – pinks, yellows, lime and just a touch of purple. I went to town using a variety of different stitches and threads. There’s a bone […]