Our first Mystery of 2023 features the art of a brand new artist! Helen Heins Peterson! I have known of Helen’s art for a very long time and am lucky enough to have a few originals. She draws on wood, including furniture, with colored pencils and the results are amazing! We’ve chatted and chatted over […]
Archives for 2022
The World is a Little Less Bright
Today we lost one of the treasures of our community, our friend Brenda Hart. It’s been a hard day. Brenda was a shining star. So much talent and so much willingness to share her ideas. She taught us all so much whether in person or through her books. Most importantly she brought us together through […]
Nutcrackers!
With or without bows and frou frou on top… Either way this Kelly Clark nutcracker is delightful. Cocoa and Cookies Nutcracker was our 2022 Holiday Mystery Class and it’s filled with fun little areas embellished with cool stitches and beads. Just a lot of happiness here. :-) That’s my favorite kind of needlepoint. Carol and […]
Happy Holidays
A little holiday mischief from our hive to your. Wishing you the Happiest of Holidays, the Merriest of Merry and Good Cheer for the New Year. Thank you for your love and support. xo ruth If you are reading this post on the blog great! Make sure you are signed up for the mailing list so that […]
Snowflakes
I like to change it up. One minute I am stitching crazy tiny details on a witch, the next I am stitching a super simple Candy Tree. The Candy Tree by Eleanor Grosch is our current mystery class. This is going to be a quick one. Two lessons with lots of beads and crystals! My […]
Surprises
Blog posts are getting fewer and farther between. One of the realities of lack of time. Sorry about that but the good news is there’s simply so much going on at the hive! We started our holiday Mystery Class last weekend. I will post that magic next week. It’s super sparkly! I’m working on Let’s […]
YIKES!
Oh my! Can it really only be two weeks until Christmas? YIKES! I have no other word for it but YIKES! Here I am sending you an email about Halloween. I know, I know it’s after the season, but what’s a girl to do? We finished our Halloween Mystery Class and it was a blast! […]
Back in Stock!
Woo Hoo! Brenda Hart’s Stitches with Hart book is back in stock! Just in time for Holiday Gift Giving! I love this book. It’s full of fun and creative stitches. I know you will love it too. If you are one of my shop owner friends, we are now the exclusive distributor of Brenda Hart’s […]
A cabin in the woods
And so begins the Rom Com. Winter Morn is that beautiful house in the woods. You feel the chill in the air and smell cookies in the oven. Of course this house has the perfect stitching chair. Wouldn’t you love to spend some stitching time here? Winter Morn by Brenda Stofft was originally a mystery […]
Friendsgiving 2022
What a wonderful weekend filled with friends and stitching. It is a tradition. Each year I select a canvas, write a guide and spend the weekend stitching with the dearest of friends. The group is getting bigger each year and I love you all. There is a magic in the sisterhood. This year I chose […]
Ruffles!
Happy Thanksgiving Weekend! I hope you are having a wonderful time. Before it starts snowing I really should share the final lessons of The Flying Witch by David Galchutt. Lesson four is all about big fluffy ruffles! Ribbon ruffles at her collar Ruffly hair created through with needle felting Hand-crafted ribbon ruffles on her skirt […]
It’s Honey Bee Time
I’m a little late announcing this, but that’s ok. It’s time to talk Honey Bees! If you were a Honey Bee this year or wish you were, you know what this is all about and it’s time to sign up for next year. If you are wondering who or what honey bees are, read on….. […]
Holiday Mystery
Welcome to our Holiday Mystery for 2022. This darling candy tree is by Eleanor Grosch. Wait until you see what I have in my mind for this tree. I see lots of crystals and sparkles! This is going to be fun! Canvas design area is 10 x 13 handpainted on 18ct canvas. Class cost is […]
Trees for Your Mantle
Holiday decor is everywhere. Let’s put a ZECCA spin on it! Check out these fantabulous trees! These are the tallest of tall trees as only Karen (aka Zecca) could imagine them. I love these trees. They are slightly funky and totally fun but yet still classic. How does she manage to hit all of the […]
Jazz Time
Stitching abstracted art is always an adventure. We had multiple abstracts in our Zoom-bellishment class. The Jazz Trio is the work of Prince Duncan Williams and is a super fun stitch. Several people are working on this canvas and it is going fast! Silk, metallics and beads all come into play. It’s going to be […]
More Bats
I’m behind in class posts! Too many balls in the air. LOL. Here’s the results of lesson 3 of our Flying Witch by David Galchutt. She is really coming along. We just had the fourth lessons looking back to this one she is wowza! Her apron is two slightly different Laid Filling patterns. The threads […]
Dog and Dove
Stitching abstracted art is always an adventure. This Este MacLeod canvas from Melissa Shirley is a great example of turning flat 2D art into dimensional magic. Meredith made great progress on it during our Zoom-bellishment class. It’s going to be stunning! 10″ x 13″ handpainted on 13ct and available with a stitchguide to make stitching […]
Kiss Me Baby
OOOH! Here’s another brand new canvas with stitch guide, designed by Johanna Virtanen this super cute frog is saying Kiss Me Baby in his perfect Austin Powers voice. We launched this in zoom-bellishment and it was a big hit! Here’s the link to order if you would like a sparkly green frog in your life. […]
National Cat Day
Allow me to interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to wish all my furry friends and their parents a Happy National Cat Day! Here’s our little tribe of love bugs Callie Harley Quinn Sawyer Their photos really capture their personalities, LOL. They send their love. xo ruth If you are reading this post on the blog […]
Kittehs
I promised newer than new with new stitchguides and here’s the first one! Designed by Johanna Virtanen these darling Tea Party Kittens just make me smile. Now thanks to the magic of a zoom-bellishment class they come with a complete stitchguide! This is the cuter than cute companion to Fifi in her Garden. So if […]
A Royal Beast
You may remember when I wrote the stitchguide for the fabulous Timothy Chapman Lion. He is truly magnificent! He came out to play again for Zoom-bellishment last weekend and I was excited to be able to share a finished photo of him. Carol did a beautiful job stitching him following my guide. Dressed in his […]
An Oldie but a Goodie
Sometimes an older canvas comes to a Zoom-bellishment party. That was just the case with this Sandra Vargas Tea Party canvas. Where are all of my Alice in Wonderland lovers? Painted on 18ct mono, the tea party is 6.5″ x 16″ and packed full of dimension – it’s all about their hair ;-) Alice, The […]
Those Cheeks
We all loved stitching the Kelly Clark Coco and Cookies Nutcracker when we stitched it as a mystery class last year. It was also the perfect addition to Zoom-bellishment this past weekend. Lot’s of fun little areas to play with and me close by to answer questions. In exciting news, we have complete kits in […]
The Long and Short of It
We can’t have a Zoom-bellishment class without Zecca canvases! We are Zecca girls and love her color and whimsy. In this class we are delighted to revisit Tall Cat and Nice Snack. While they are big ,6″ x 24″ on 18ct, they aren’t too big. It’s the same square inches as a 12 x 12 […]
