Such fun! Crazy quilting with Judith Baker Montano

Week 32 in Sharon's TAST (Take a stitch Tuesday) was the cast on stitch. If you have ever started a knitting project, this stitch will ...

Remember Take A Stitch Tuesday? Every week Sharon B. challenges her readers to try a new embroidery stitch or, if you already know the sti...

A little bit of embroidery for my daughter. The pattern is Sweet Home from Posie. So cute!

Add support lines to help place stitches at the outside points. Update - last night I stitched a new temari with this unusual techniqu...

Week 3 TAST (take a stitch Tuesday with Sharon) is the feather stitch. I used it to fill a triangle.

Week 2 TAST challenge is the buttonhole stitch. I've used this stitch but am a little rusty with it so I did the basic version to outlin...

Finally! Yesterday, I was able to relax, watch some Downton Abbey on Netflix and stitch. I realized that I have not stitched for pleasure li...

Forsythia stitched on a Japanese temari   Finally! Diagrams for forsythia! Time flies when you're having fun, right? Well, I've...

It seems like forever ago that I wrote a bit here about how to make a temari ball. Wrap your temari with blue thread. Stitch happy, slo...

Here's another face done for our temari challenge . This one started with the name red daisy but I switched it to poinsettia whenI disco...

Fluffy poofs of lavender, purple, blue, and pink hydrangeas are my daughter's favorite flowers and are at the top of my list for the Flo...

A traditional temari kiku (chrysanthemum) design fills this pentagon on the Flower Temari Challenge ball. The kiku herringbone stitch is us...

In my last post Weaving Designs for Fill , I wrote about a hexagonal weave ( mutsume ami ). That's the one I used to fill a pentagon and...

Queen Anne's Lace  In our TemariChallenge Yahoo group , we have a challenge going to stitch a flower sampler with 12 different flo...