Got the new TAST stitch Monday night and started working on it last night. I didn't finish, so I won't show it yet, but I learned something. Closed Cretan stitch is exactly the same thing as my dense feather stitch that I used to make the palm tree trun… more »

      Stems and leaves are fly stitches. This was done after the buttonhole/blanket stitch on my TAST 2012 sampler.         A simple line of feather stitch to divide this section form the previous. Heart is 2 layers of fly stitch. I worked the e… more »

The Sketchbook Challenge this month is "doodles." I never thought my doodles were particularly interesting. All through high school I doodled tree shapes on the edges of my notebooks. I didn't do very much else... at least, I don't remember anything els… more »

So far, I am managing to keep up with TAST! For full size click on picture or  here. I put this one in a hoop, but I still have trouble with tension. I feel like I'm missing something, but I don't know what. Everything except the lower case letters… more »

I said the other day I'd post about the crocheting I'd been doing. This little dress started out as an unfinished machine knitted sweater. (Sorry, I forgot to get a before photo.) I don't know why it was unfinished. There was nothing wrong with it. Whe… more »