Things have been extremely demanding at work over the past couple of weeks, so blogging on all fronts has really taken a hit. In addition, I’m getting ready to go on vacation with the Hooligans later this week, so time is at a premium.
Even though I haven’t been able to build on my first My [...]
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Posted in My Needlework Journey, MyCraftivity posts, Needlework, crochet, tagged collage, creativity, crocheting, Cross Stitch and Needle Arts group, fashion, free cross stitch patterns, inspiration, knitting, mixed media, MyCraftivity blog, needlework blog, quilting, scrapbooking, sewing on May 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Because I’m employed by the parent company of MyCraftivity.com, I’m expected to post regularly there. I’ve started a series on my personal MyCraftivity blog called “My Needlework Journey,” starting with this post about how I started crocheting as a child.
As group leader for the Cross Stitch and Needle Arts group, I’ve been posting some items as [...]
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Posted in Birthdays, Easter, Holidays & Celebrations, Just Rattling On, Needlework, The Hooligan Chronicles, embroidery, tagged birthday cake, Dewey's Pizza, flooded basement, heavy rain, overworked, post-operative recovery, signs of spring on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Geez, what a month March has been! First, I’m going to be whiney about how many hours I’ve been putting in at work. And the sorry part of it is, I felt as if I wasn’t seeing any results all those nights I stayed until 7 o’clock or later, or those weekends I brought work [...]
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A few years ago I did a lot more rug hooking than I do now. I never made anything larger than a small throw rug; instead, I’d turn out little wall hangings (maybe 14 inches by 9 inches or so) like the one in the picture above. These weren’t planned at all; often I wanted [...]
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This is a sampler I stitched up in 2004 especially for the cabin-style bedroom in my mom’s house. (I’m sure about the year because my intials and date are in the lower right-hand corner.) It’s a chart by The Prairie Schooler, although I can’t provide the title at the moment. I’m still searching my chart [...]
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Posted in Christmas, Holidays & Celebrations, Needlework, Sheep, embroidery, rug hooking, tagged fake mantels, fake mantles, hanging stockings, holiday traditions, rug hooking, Saint Nicholas, St. Nicholas, St. Nick on December 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was surprised when I found out that everyone doesn’t celebrate The Feast of St. Nicholas. It was common in our neighborhood, with the Catholic kids especially. My mother didn’t know about St. Nicholas until later in childhood when a neighbor introduced her to the holiday (she’s got a great post about that here). I’m [...]
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Posted in Holidays & Celebrations, Needlework, Thanksgiving, punchneedle, redwork, rug hooking, tagged embroidery, hooked rugs, Needlework, pumpkins, punch needle, punchneedle, redwork, rug hooking, Thanksgiving, turkey on November 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Over at Lillian’s Cupboard, my mother is bragging about my needlework again. The turkey and pumpkin/moon hooked rug hangings and the punchneedle pumpkin were original designs (obviously, I made them up as I went — they’re lopsided and/or out of proportion; I just can’t plan ahead). The redwork of the grandmother and kids in the kitchen is [...]
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Posted in Attempts at Artwork, Folk Art (mine), Halloween, Holidays & Celebrations, Looking Back, Needlework, hardanger, tagged 1950s, altered art, altered masks, banner, black cat, Cincinnati, East End, Halloween, hardanger, masks, memories, vintage Halloween, witch on October 26, 2007 | No Comments »
I was born in 1954, so my earliest Halloween memories come from that decade. We lived upstairs of Grandma and Grandpa in a small two-family house in the East End section of Cincinnati. The outside stairs that led to the door of our flat were too rickety to be climbed, so beggars (as they were often called [...]
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My mother is contributing some small items to a bazaar in Germany (which she heard about through one of her quilting forums — the world really is becoming a village, isn’t it?). I mentioned I might have a few crocheted doilies lying around that I could pass along, and she said the bazaar would probably [...]
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Posted in Needlework, cross-stitch, tagged bee hive, bee skep, bees, cross-stitch, honey bee, honeybee, Needlework, quilt blocks, quilting, wall hanging on September 25, 2007 | No Comments »
My mother has a post at her blog, Lillian’s Cupboard, showing her most recent quilted wall hanging. She had been telling me about a block design she’d found, called a honey bee block, and how she was eager to incorporate it into a project.
Earlier in the week I had been looking at one of the cross-stitch [...]
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