A Teaching Sampler

  I am working on a teaching sampler for a surface embroidery class. This is not counted cross stitch. It is satin, chain,blanket,… and some basic 3D stitches, the detached picot that are the rays […]

Buried Treasure!

  As I was sorting through my basement stash I found this embroidery done by my son when he was 5 years old. It is under a paperweight dome that had come unglued but was […]

Embroidery on Wool

This embroidery is stitched on black wool. Anyone who has stitched on black wool knows that each of those words presents a problem. Wool is impossible to draw on no matter what color it is. […]

Embroidery Machine Rockets

I spent about 8 years playing with digitized machine embroideries. That was the period when the carpel tunnel problems wouldn’t allow me to hold a needle. In the long run, hours at the computer digitizing […]

New Embroideries

Embroidery has always been my first ‘Making Things’ love. The drawing, the stitching, the colors, the textures are all a part of the process and the pleasure. Recently I have begun to explore needle lace […]

New Claire doll

This is my newest cloth doll version of Claire. I enjoyed making her tiny little jacket, but my favorite part is her tiny little pocket!

Rejected, Crazy And Hanging By A Thread

I belong to a wonderful quilt group called the Charm Club. I am the newest member of the group. Every two years the Charm Club has a show at the Sullivan Museum in Zionsville, Indiana. […]

Embroidery Inspiration

The pigtail wires on the lower right side of the red frame move the car, mom and kids back and forth through the drive thru. I love being able to use an everyday contemporary image, […]

A New Doll

A new cloth doll I just finished. The doll face, body and costume are all stitched in the hoop, even the cutting lines are stitched out. When the machine embroidery is finished, cut out the […]