Thistles are a favorite flower of mine to stitch and Victoria Sampler is a favorite designer. Add to that a design for a hexagon shaped box lid, a cardboard hexagon shaped box (found on Amazon.com), and I was ready to … Read more
Thistles
Month: February 2015
Hardanger with Tulips, a needlework design
Hardanger with Tulips design is a counted needlework embroidery presented within a 50-plus page booklet available in printed and Kindle formats. Two variations of the design is offered. The one variation has no openwork and the other incorporates openwork areas… Read more
Jasmine Branches
Yesterday I walked through our frozen back yard to check out the forsythia bushes hoping to find a branch of fat buds that I could bring indoors and force to bloom … nothing. Though, surprisingly I found healthy green leaves … Read more
Iris, rock roses and forget-me-nots
I did not like the floppy irises shown within the instruction book for this section and decided to change them to look more like the irises shown in Ann Cox’s A-Z of Silk ribbon flowers book.
The Iris stems (twisted … Read more