Tweetle Dee Blog — embroidery

Happy 4th of July!  I can't believe we are already celebrating the red, white and blue.  This is one of my favorite holidays because of the family celebrations I remember with our family on the farm in New York.  We would get together at the cottage on the lake and swim or fish...a little canoeing happened too.  A great picnic with potato salad (my favorite), rhubarb pie, and Grandma Brown's baked beans (thick and sweet).  We finished the night with fireworks over the water and a drive to the town firework show.  Lots of laughter and tons of fireflies....oh summer!...

We are so excited to share with you our newest hoop-art embroidery pattern, The Deseret Drifter Floral Embroidery Sampler.  The Deseret is a term we hear in the west often.  It is associated with the values of hard work, perseverance, inspired vision and strength.  The name of this pattern, the Deseret Drifter came to me one night as I was journaling. I love reality journals, you know the journals we scribble our hopes and goals into, our honest failures and glimpses of the paths we trudge along to a better way.  The word "drifter" gives me the image of someone who...

We are so excited to bring our darling Hippity Hoppity Hand Embroidery to the shop this week!  Sometimes you really want a simple embroidery piece to work on for the season and our little bunny with his floppy ears is so sweet and simple that a beginner stitcher could easily finish this project over a couple movies. Available in the shop as a full kit (including the unfinished frame) or a pattern complete with instructions and stitching guides to help you along.   Patterns are available as well as the frame for separate purchase.  You will love this little bunny who is here to announce...

Keep Your Face to the Sun and You'll Never See the Shadows, is one of my favorite embroidery patterns.  It was designed about twelve years ago for a young friend who had lost her mother to cancer.  As she was trying to figure out how to make choices that each young adult gets to make, we would talk about this saying and that the "shadows" were fear and the "sun" was the love around her.   Last week the image of my original sampler for this design popped up into my personal Facebook feed at a particular moment when I...