Category: WIP

  • Eleanor Roosevelt

    First, here is the grid I made of the placement of the ladies: I am using 14 count aida fabric from Garabaldi’s Needlework in the Pineapple Upside-down Cake colorway. Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) wasn’t just the First Lady to the 32nd president FDR. She was a civil rights activist, mother of…

  • insert clever title here

    Hey! I’m back. After my last post, in July, my sciatica got worse and worse and I finally took it seriously in early October and got some medical advice. Long story short- it’s severe, I have meds, I’m in PT, and I’m dealing with it. I don’t like it but I don’t let anything tell…

  • Finish A Thing v2020

    Challenge! My good friend Beth started a fun challenge back in 2015 called, wait for it, Finish A Thing 2015. It was a fun group on ravelry. I ended up surprisingly surpassing my goal! Now, “finishing” can mean finishing any WIP but it can also mean leaving some behind or quitting a project. If it’s…

  • Pam Palmer’s Festival Elephant

    When I started tatting, I found pictures of this elephant online. I couldn’t (still can’t) get over it! I looked and looked over the last couple years and finally got a copy of it. I decided to treat myself this week, and bought the rest of the thread I need to make it. My LYS…

  • Well. Here we are.

    Yeah. Shelter in place and kids won’t be going back to school this year. So we’ve all become homeschoolers! Luckily the school system is helping a lot. Love to all the teachers that keep sending me ideas and stuff. Let’s talk about crafts shall we? Now that I know I have more time to stitch,…