Happy 17th Birthday to my Shih Tzu, Maggie!

If you haven't seen the animated embroidery on spool spectrum yet, go look now. It's really cool. Really really really cool. Edited...

None of my posts are showing up on Facebook but I think I fixed it so let's see if this works.

If I ever hit the lottery, I swear I am hiring someone just to think up titles for my posts. Sometimes when I see links posted on Facebook ,...

I found a few more scans of some vintage embroidery patterns that I posted last year on a now-deleted blog. More dogs, of course. These are ...

I just read the latest post from Teresa on the Lone Star Shih Tzu and Lhasa Apso Rescue blog and it made me really sad. Teresa wrote about...

This post could be a drinking game. Take a swig every time I mention the word Scottie/Scotty . The other night, I went through the pile of p...

All of the embroidery transfers that I've been posting are from Artex 2200 b. I had scanned these last year and forgot the cats, dogs a...

Kandra of Sibling Craftery is holding a Sew Bee Wonky Virtual Quilting Bee on Flickr. I'm not joining because I don't quilt, althou...

Time for another scanned pattern from my now-deleted other blog. I had a little bit of trouble getting this one re-sized. Click the image fo...

Enjoy the poodles!

Don't have a heart attack but I actually finished a few cross stitch designs this weekend. This is the hedgehog that's going to beco...

UPDATE: Sammy has been adopted. Yay! Sammy is a 15 yr old Shih Tzu in Maumelle, Arkansas who needs a new home because his owners are moving ...

Remember when I started another blog so I could share scans of my embroidery transfers and I put a few of them up over there and then forgot...

If you missed the Verandah Views BOM the first time around, you're in luck because Cheryl of Willowberry Designs has posted them all...

Quite awhile ago, I found some free tea pot embroidery patterns on the Cathron Country Designs blog and printed them out but forgot to save...

An organization called Matter of Trust is collecting human hair and dog hair/fur to stuff into nylon booms that can be used to soak up oil ...

I saw this finish of this little rabbit cross stitch on the Freebie Gallery blog and fell in love with it. I tracked down the site that ha...

I keep posting links to embroidery freebies yet I haven't actually stitched anything since 1957. Here's another free BOM for you. Th...

Gina Matarazzo has an Etsy shop where she sells her embroidery patterns and artwork. Check out her site for two adorable free patterns of k...