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Our daughter has taken up needlepoint, over the past year she has created some beautiful items! She spends a LOT of time waiting at the pool for one and/or at the soccer field with another, she was looking for something to occupy her hands other than her phone. Needlepoint became her choice. This was one needle-art avenue that I had never ventured down. Never say never, right? Earlier this fall

Our daughter has taken up needlepoint, over the past year she has created some beautiful items! She spends a LOT of time waiting at the pool for one and/or at the soccer field with another, she was looking for something to occupy her hands other than her phone. Needlepoint became her choice. This was one needle-art avenue that I had never ventured down. Never say never, right? Earlier this fall

In January, 1975, I was home in Northbrook between Alpha Gamma Delta leadership consultant assignments. I posed for this photo with my entire my needlework output.

Here are the details.

* The green cross-stitch quilt was the first one I made. It's a Bucilla kit, double-bed sized.  I made it in 1973-74 when I was in graduate school (embroidery first semester, hand-quilting second semester).  It was my bedspread until I got married.  I got a lot of good use out of both the quilt and the degree.  The quilt is still in pretty good condition, considering that it's been ...

Over the weeekend I framed the needlepoint barn.

I found the frame in my parents’ basement when I cleaned out the house. I think dad made it, but no way to know. It must have sat there for decades because I had to scrub it four times to get it clean.

It looked a little rough, so I gave it a coat of a stain/polyeurethane combo product. It cleaned up better than I thought it would.

That’s one more project off the bed of shame.

Many years ago I worked at a girls’ boarding school as a Boarding Mistress and English Tutor – it was a lovely job that I worked at from when I was a university student the first time around to just before we left Brisbane for Melbourne.  My years there gave me a whole new look at the different ways people live and I met so many lovely people from all over the world, and especially from the remote outback of Australia.  We had girls who came to the city from huge properties out west, who had not only never experienced city ...