Duneland Fiber Festival:

 Nice yarn purchased

this a.m. from the https://www.threemoonsfiberworks.com/pages/duneland-fiber-fest-animal2art.

Maria & Mae

Probably using for weaving or knitting -- have a couple ideas in mind.

 like a butterfly for the https://www.hoosierhillsfiberfestival.com/butterfly-archway

   https://www.hoosierhillsfiberfestival.com/

 

migration of birds

EDITED 4 May 2026:

 grosbeak

 orchard oriole

 red bellied wordpecker

 red headed woodpecker

 baltimore oriole

 titmouse.

No catbirds (yet).   

 female oriole

 female grosbeak

 trillium

 wild geraniums

 

Triple Lily Ornament

edited 30 April 2026

 Reverse Chain Stitch start.

Triple Lily Ornament

Kit + Instruction:  Melinda Sherbring

Two Day workshop via zoom.

 Practice stitching.   Learning the Ceylon Stitch, Elizabethan Double Ladder / w/curve.     I've never learned stitching on plastic canvas.   There are pros and cons - yet, it is easier to view at a glance, how the stitches are created.

 Raised Stem stitch, Raised Back Stitch, Raised Guilloche on cords.

 Practice for the 'finishing' edges. Double Edged Chain. Single Edged Chain. Linked Chains. Double Edged Linked Chains.  So, if ever I complete the lily piece, these are the options for completion.....

 

Sashiko? Mini Loom? Tools?

 Twisted Picot order in the mailbox.

I've been looking at the Sashiko kits + look forward to giving it a try.   And the mini loom (gift) .... cannot wait to try ; )    Button Station & Third Hand.  

This mini loom is too much fun.   Sky and prarie.

 Blast from the past ...

 Anita's Little Stitches has ball-tip needles.  I wanted to try the BOHIN ball-tip needles.   Very handy with teneriffe and nanduti.

 

Look now, frost advisory tonight

 Trillium

 Bue bells

 bleeding hearts

 Trillium patch

 

Spring

 

Happy Spring

 Homespun Elegance (pin):   TS-5Bunny's Treat

 

Bunnys - Happy Spring

 

 Homespun Elegance:

Spring Fling with some changes!
Think Spring Tiny Stuff I

 

Bunny Stuff --- Happy Spring

The Bunny Hop" designed by Judy Whitman, JBW Designs c.1999 

 Tiny Stuff: Flying Hare Pin/Ornament

c.1997 Sandra Sullivan of Homespun Elegance Ltd.

 

Underside couching - heart class piece (continued) ....

Kit and Underside Couching instruction, c,Tanya Bentham,  Blog: Opusanglicanum.

I continue to put in stitches (counter point couching) in a silver metallic -- Tanya Bentham: Underside Couching Heart Class / Workshop.    Determined to finish this Heart Class..  

 Next:  Will begin the circles around the heart motif -- probably start with the darker pink ...

 

Underside Couching Heart Class piece

 Dayton Chapter (FB Page) has nicer photograph of the project

Kit and Underside Couching instruction, c,Tanya Bentham,  Blog: Opusanglicanum.

I continue to put in stitches -- Tanya Bentham: Underside Couching Heart Class / Workshop.    Determined to finish this Heart Class..  

 The kit has lovely choices in colors.  Next - the inner circle, background of the heart.   Called counter point couching -- here we go ....

 

Nice pattern for the Hoosier Hills Fiber Festival in June

https://www.hoosierhillsfiberfestival.com/

For the butterfly arch ----

June 5-6, 2026

 

Zwirnknopt Ovals ---

 

 

DMC Coton Perle, #5,  Col. 799, 210, 504.

Daiso Lace Yarn #20, Col. 31

3" oval wooden shape.

 Karen Smock's Zwirnknopt Easter Egg class thru the Lace Museum Virtual Education.   Nice wood pieces from her button store - Karen's Buttons Supplies.  

I didn't attach the bunny - or finish the back (yet).   Once I finish the 2nd oval piece, I'll figure out the embellishing and tidy the back.

Starting the bonus pattern - gift from Karen - variation of the original pattern.

 So far, DMC pc #5, Col. 504 and Aunt Lydia's size 10 Metallic, Col. White/Pearl   Has fewer spokes.   We will see how it turns out.

For the 1st one -- beeswax and clips a must have ....

 

Zwirnknopf Easter Egg

 Pulling out the class kit & sorting thru colors of perle coton.   I picked up a couple embellishments at our local craft store - flowers, rabbits, which I may add once oval is completed.  My girlfriend's husband makes beeswax pieces and I was gifted a few of them last week.

Button Maker's Third Hand & Tool Tin by Gina-B Silkworks

 Preparing for Karen Smock's Zwirnknopt Easter Egg class thru the Lace Museum Virtual Education.   Nice button store - Karen's Buttons Supplies.    Their class selection is wonderful - a lot to choose from.  I continue to be grateful to friends who have gifted fibers and supplies to me!!

Community Lace Project

Check it out-- follow the links.

I filled in my Lace Bingo card and sent to Kelli Slack.

Did you complete one?

Let's Play Bingo:

Get your card(s) submitted!

Details --- at A Twisted Picot site.

 

Reading ....

 Finished and enjoyed

Hannah Rothschild's The Improbability of Love.  Especially when the author had the 'painting' as a character.  I enjoy the art world and this fiction was so much fun to read.   So, finished -- now I can start Mona's Eyes by Thomas Schlesser.

 I have read all of Elizabeth Strout books.  I've read them in order of publication ; however, read any of them!   I have even pre ordered the newest one --  passed along this one to a

 friend!

 Finished and enjoyed Bonnie Garmus

Lessons in Chemistry.   Incredible!   Passed along to a friend.

I've got a start on Daniel Mason's North Woods, and Picoult's Mad Honey --

 just bought Theo of Golden by Allen Levi (gift card from youngest DS).    Have Daniel Mason's short stories, purchased awhile back ... 

have a few on the night stand.

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