Firstly, to those who have been patiently waiting for a year: thank you. I found it very hard to concentrate for long during lockdown. I could manage a Facebook post, but WordPress felt too much ...
https://suetortoise.wordpress.com/2021/05/10/a-successful-experiment/
Back in 2015, I was looking at Mexican samplers online, and saved and printed a picture which showed some cut and pulled openwork in the top left of one example. It’s a late 1800s Mexican sampl...
https://suetortoise.wordpress.com/2020/05/13/puzzling-out-a-mexican-sampler/
In my last post, I talked about the workshop that Tanya Bentham of Opus Anglicanum blog ran at Ewe & Ply in Oswestry. (Yes, once upon a time we could do things like that, children.) I didn’t fe...
https://suetortoise.wordpress.com/2020/04/01/tom-of-oswestry/
My National Bus Pass became valid in January, and I have been making use of it for shopping and other sensible things, and for a bit of out-and-abouting. Plans to do more of this have been somewh...
https://suetortoise.wordpress.com/2020/03/02/wheels-workshops-and-water/
It was Christmas eve and I was having a quiet, lazy evening after a very pleasant afternoon with my friend Sam, who had come for tea and a good, long natter. Now she had gone home, and I sat by m...
https://suetortoise.wordpress.com/2020/01/04/twas-the-night-before-christmas/
Hello, again. Thank you for your patience! Yes, I am still alive and looking forward to getting back to blogging more frequently from now on. (Yes, I have said that quite a few times before, have...
https://suetortoise.wordpress.com/2019/12/18/good-wishes-from-the-tortoise-loft/
Just a quick one, as I am about to rush off to Heathrow for the annual Easter Science Fiction Convention in the morning. We are staying in a hotel near the airport. (The names of these Easter mee...
I’ve got some catching up to do. I’ve got several finished pieces to show you, but I shall talk about just two for now, and my trip to Stitching for Pleasure. This is the stitched box I start...
https://suetortoise.wordpress.com/2019/03/17/meet-the-empress/
Another bookmark? Well, you know how I like making bookmarks! There was this little counted-thread pattern that I was playing around with on Monday night. It’s a close relative of some of the o...
https://suetortoise.wordpress.com/2019/02/16/a-bookmark-evolves/
Okay, so I do still take have to it out of the hoop, add my signature (the one you can see is just pasted onto the photo) and get it ready for putting into a mount. But the stitching is done, ...
https://suetortoise.wordpress.com/2019/02/03/the-dragon-is-stitched/