A word of welcome

Welcome! Thank you for visiting my blog today.

My blog is in transition this year. Last year it was my blog for joining in with the many stitchers involved in SharonB’s 2007 weekly challenge Take a Stitch Tuesdays. This blog was consumed with those stitches every week.

This year SharonB’s challenge is a monthly challenge called Take it Further (TIF). I’m joining in on that, too. But being a monthly, there is time to add in other things on the blog. I’m enjoying that. And what a struggle I’m having to keep up my stitching on the TIF ideas I plan!

I’ve set up a page explaining about SharonB’s challenges that may be helpful to anyone not familiar with Sharon’s work.

I also would like to point you to some of the resources on this blog to help acquaint you with the on-line needlework community if you are a newcomer to it. In the blogroll I’ve provided links to a few of the needlework areas that I’m familiar with. By visiting these blogs you may be directed on to further explorations in those fields of particular interest. While I don’t keep an extensive blogroll, I do read a lot of blogs and you will find specific blogs or posts that may be of interest by clicking under the categories of “Blogs” and “Out and About”.

The last thing I will mention to help you feel at home when reading some of my posts is terminology. When I say “off grid” I’m referring to an non-counted fabric or ground on which I’m stitching. “On grid” is a my shorthand for a counted thread fabric. And if I talk about “a grid” usually that is referring to a stitched grid on the ground whether counted or non-counted fabric is used.

One other saying is “school girl days/mode”. That means I’m doing routine, calculated experiments with a stitch. While these are not very inspiring in themselves, that disciplined work often leads to something profitable as well as helping me grow in an understanding of the stitch.

If you find anything else puzzling or any broken links in the course of your visit, please don’t hesitate to let me know via a comment. I will be happy to respond to your question and fix anything that is not clear or no longer works.

Please stop by again. While I don’t always post every day and my timing is sometimes erratic, I generally post every day except Sunday. Please feel free to leave a comment at any time. I always enjoy meeting visitors.