This month’s embroidery garden journal is all about trying a new-to-me technique I learned specifically for this entry to enhance the design of my embroidery flowers. Join me in practicing this embroidery stitch in answering the question, what the heck is battlement couching!?! And how do you use it in an embroidery? Pushing Stitching Boundaries …
Have you ever wanted to capture a record of the beautiful abundance of life in your garden in a format other than photographs? Embroidery journals have been circling around the internet for a number of years, but an icon a day is not something a lot of us can keep up with. How about one …
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Walking through a local family-owned central PA greenhouse, Madi and I are so ready for spring color. Halligan’s Greenhouse is located outside of Thompsontown, PA in the rolling countryside and hosts several polytunnels of perennial, annual and vegetable plants for the home gardener. I began shopping at Halligans in the late 1990s with my mother …
Temperatures are warming up and we are getting back outside for the patio season! If, like me, you are looking around your home and patio this time of year and accessing the décor, or lack thereof, perhaps you would like to join me in this fun little project. I created this quick tutorial for how …
It’s been a little difficult to stay on track with blogging lately with all of the discord in the world right now. Most days I struggle to get any significant amount of time to quilt or work on my art. Life is just pulled in so many directions and I have to keep chasing after …
As an entire global community, we are in treading through uncharted territory as the dangers of the Corona Virus continue to change our lives. Many of us are having to rise to challenges we had not imagined, let alone prepared for. One of those challenges is how to bring about a balance between a new …
A walk through my garden and showcase of how my quilt color palettes are influenced by the garden and vie versa.
Join me as I shop for plants and flowers at a local country greenhouse. The vlog and post also include a stop at a roadside junk shop and some planting.