The rose is red, the violet’s blue The honey’s sweet, and so are you Thou are my love and I am thine I drew thee to my Valentine The lot was cast and then I drew And Fortune said it shou’d be you. (From the 1784 collection of English nursery
Monthly Archives: January 2012
How to Make Beaded Pins
Wanted to share a quick and easy project to create your own personalized pins for that next biscornu or pincushion project. Used for this project was: 1) Dritz glass head quilting pins 1 7/8 inch long (found in the quilting section) 2) Mixed glass beads and sead beads 3) G-S
Provenance and your Needlework
Provenance is from the French word provenir which means “to come from”. As needle workers, we are excited when a treasured piece from long ago has provenance and we can place a name with a story of the person whose arduous work we now possess. Perhaps you or another was
New Years Resolutions
As we jump feet first into 2012 with all of our New Year resolutions, is one of them to finish some of those WIP’s or to design that something special? Sometimes we just need a little inspiration to tackle an old or new project. What inspires you to get those
