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My online class, Embroider Your Knits with Flowers is in full bloom! This week I posted lessons on stitching these springy wrist warmers, made from an upcycled wool sweater and embellished with [...]

What is it about French knots? They’re just the perfect embroidered accent. When your stitching needs a lil’ sumthin’. Or a big ol’ pile of nubbins in the middle of a flower. I can’t get enough [...]

We have a winner! A few posts back I mentioned my feature in the new Uppercase Encyclopedia book, YARN-THREAD-STRING. Since I was given an extra copy, I decided to host a giveaway. Today I [...]

Easter is coming to Springville! I love putting my Easter decor out every year but it’s even more fun to incorporate the little buildings of Springville. It looks great amongst the dyed [...]

I’m a busy bee packing up kits for my online class, Embroider Your Knits with Flowers! It’s got 12 beautiful colors of tapestry wool (2 of each, plus a bonus skein for practice), 2 [...]

I’m so excited to be included in this book by Uppercase! YARN-THREAD-STRING is the latest book in the Uppercase Encyclopedia of Inspiration! What an honor to be a part of such an amazing [...]

Is March more of a Lion or a Lamb where you live? This week in NY we are getting a lamby 60 degree teaser but the the 30 degree lion weather will be back this weekend! (I remember as a kid [...]

photo by Frances Valentine Last year I saw a gorgeous sweater on the Frances Valentine website. It was inspired by a vintage sweater owned by Kate Spade, the company’s founder. I loved it! [...]

I wanted to give you peek at the Stitch Sampler we’ll be doing in my new online class, Embroider Your Knits with Flowers. It’s like a regular embroidery sampler, only its arranged in [...]

Hooray! My new class, Embroider Your Knits with Flowers, is now open for Early Bird Registration! Ever since I embroidered my first pair of wrist warmers with yarn, I’ve been obsessed with [...]