Sharon b is blogging at http://www.pintangle.com/. Her website is In a minute ago. In 2008 she started a community on ning at stitching fingers. This community is open to all interested in textiles and there are many special focus groups.
Sharon has a new challenge for 2009. Please read about the Stitch Explorer Challenge (SEC) and consider joining in. This challenge launched January 15, 2009. I think that the more people involved in working together on this exploration of stitches and stitching styles the more learning and understanding explode and progress is made. This is a flexible challenge you may do as much or little as you want with it each month.
In 2007 I was involved with stitching in Sharon’s Take a Stitch Tuesday Challenge (TSTC). And this blog was set up then primarily to post my work in that challenge. There is a group revisiting this challenge at Sharon b’s stitchin fingers community.
Sharon announced another challenge for 2008. This was Take it Further Challenge (TIFC). It was a monthly challenge regarding a design theme for each month along with a color challenge. You will see occasional references to in my blog. I did designs for each month’s theme but failed to get them stitched out. This was a great challenge and I loved it and learned but didn’t adjust fast enough to the monthly timeframe to get the project finished.
Needless to say, as you read this blog you will notice numerous references to Sharon. I think all of her links will take you to Sharon’s new blog. However, if a link failed please try to locate the correct material by checking the appropriate post at Sharon’s new blog and please leave me a comment and I will be happy to help locate information and update the link for others.
And please swing by and visit Sharon’s blog if you are not already familiar with it. Sharon has wonderful resources for any one interested in stitching, crazy quilting, blogging and visual journals as well as a host of other interesting things along the way. Sharon also has a good on-line stitch dictionary. It is well illustrated and indexed guide with many documented stitches.
Sharon, thank you for all your dedication and labor of love to the needlework community and beyond.
