This lot was stuffed in an old cardboard chocolate box, handed down to me from my mother's side of the family. I think, based on the ...

Normally I would start a post about a book with a photo of its cover, but my cat Milo photobombed this picture so elegantly, I chose this...

My stitchy friend Sophie (aka What Delilah Did ) has released a new book called Secret Garden Embroidery and it's really lovely so...

I've added a few older, second hand embroidery books to my collection in the last couple of weeks. I bought some vintage craft magazi...

If you have been following my blog for a bit you know that I love to do some cross stitching every now and then and I thought I'd s...

Today I bring you an overview of the books (and the odd pattern) I reviewed or discussed on my blog in the past year. There's still ...

Sometimes life throws things at you that are not overly dramatic but need some time to sink in and digest. I had a not so great start ...

This week I spent a several very relaxing days on the Dutch island of Texel . Unfortunately I forgot my proper camera so the photos are t...

I just returned from a few days away with the family. Everyone in the family, except me, had had some type of flu in the weeks before s...

Jacqueline & Christopher Meet Jacqueline and Christopher, the husband and wife team behind weelittlestitches , a business that (in t...

I'm not going to bore you with how much I love the Foo Fighters' music but just in case you were wondering: Everlong is a song  b...

This is the embroidery I made for the Phat Quarter Embroidery Swap on Flickr. The theme was 'It's not the end of the world' ...

I'm going on a little trip soon (well not very soon but pretty soon) and I thought I'd take along something fun to stitch: a lovel...

For the past couple of days I've been working (quite fanatically I must add) on this cross stitch piece. There was a reason why I star...

Nearly done with this cute Penelope Waits pattern and I'm so very happy with the colour I chose for the lettering! It's a hand...

This is (a little bit) of one of the windows in my kitchen. Now that cup looks familiar doesn't it? Anyway, my husband recently painted...