Southwestern Twinchy Gallery
I just love this Twinchy. It showcases everything I like about Kachinas. It has feathers, lots of color, and antler horns. The stepped pyramid around the mouth represents the mesas of New Mexico and...
View ArticleOctober Twinchy Challenge – the Watercolours Challenge
This month’s Twinchy Challenge is a little different. There isn’t a them but a thread. Watercolours from the Caron Collection. Since it first came out, I’ve loved this thread and managed to accumulate...
View ArticleAugust Twinchy Challenge – Quilt Blocks
Quilt blocks have got to be one of the most enduring themes in my needlepoint. They are #2 after Bargello. I hadn’t been needlepointing all that long when Needlepoint from Great American Quilts was...
View ArticleStash Busting Project – Stitch your Stash around the World
My friend, Barbara Bergsten has just posted the start of a wonderful Scrap Bag Needlepoint project. The idea will be to use your stash threads to make a needlepoint Trip around the World quilt. I’m so...
View ArticleQuilt Block Twinchies Gallery
This Twinchy Challenge was so much fun. The Twinchy pictured above is a block called “Black Beauty” It’s stitched in two shades of Watercolours, the dark one for the border and the lighter one for the...
View ArticleBargello Challenge – Virtual Book Tour Stop
Cyn Davis (her blog is Cyn’s Stitches) and I did a Bargello Challenge this month for my stop at her blog on my Virtual Book Tour. There are two posts on her blog about it. One is by me and describes...
View ArticleLet the Stitching Games Begin
For the past several years, a great group activity has been happening over at Stitcherie. Called Stitching Games, it encourages us to stretch our creativity by picking a piece of needlepoint and...
View ArticleStash-busting Contest Update
Remember our stash-busting needlepoint challenge this month? I wanted to bring you up-to-date on my progress and plans. I decided I wanted it to look like stained glass, so I’m using one of my favorite...
View Article10/25/50 Challenge
Updated March 1, 2019 It’s been going on for almost several years, but this challenge is a fantastic way to reduce our stashes. We all tend to get stashes which are out of control. Sometimes our guilds...
View ArticleNeedlepoint Challenge – Use your Stash
Updated June 19, 2021. A few years ago y friend Kristin who runs the blog Craft Leftovers and has a great idea — have a stash-busting month. Vow not to buy any new craft materials for the next month...
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