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 […]

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 […]

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….. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Rare Beauty that is.  The Beauty of a Rare Find is a gorgeous stag prancing through the forest and is another canvas from this weekend’s Zoom-bellishment class.  I originally wrote the guide for this Elizabeth Foster canvas for our July Zoom-bellishment class and here it is back to party again. This canvas leans a little […]

I love this canvas and we’re going to revisit it in Zoom-bellishment this weekend.  Designed by David Galchutt this is Sudden Realization.  David’s canvases are packed full of details just waiting to be discovered.  There’s usually one in an embellishment class. There’s patterned stitches and dimensional embroidery stitches galore on this canvas.  If it enchants […]

It’s going to be one of those weeks.  Perhaps mercury is in retrograde?  The website is acting wonky.  Emails aren’t going out.  UGH! Let’s try this one again.  This little gold fish is too cute to miss. Here we go!  October Zoom-bellishment is next weekend.  Kits are shipping to 25 happy dancing students!  I’m ready […]

Here we are on Day Two of pretty canvases that will be part of our October Zoom-bellishment class next weekend.  We love Dominic Bourbeau’s style and this nativity is no exception.  Lots of fun details to stitch. Here’s the link to order your own nativity.  You may order, canvas, guide, threads or any combination of […]

Here we go!  October Zoom-bellishment is next weekend.  Kits are shipping to 25 happy dancing students!  I’m ready to showcase what everyone is working on.  This means a post a day of fun projects.  As some are projects that we are revisiting you may even get to see some finishes.  So, let’s get this show […]