Description: Blog of Susan Elliott where she shares her life through her needlework and photography.
Merry Christmas one and all! Thanks to Pam Kellogg and her request to participate in her 2016 Crazy Quilt calendar , I had a Christmas Card this year. I looked at reviews of various card companies that would print out my own design. I narrowed my search to TinyPrints , PaperCulture and Minted . I chose Minted even though they were a tad more expensive because their Silver-Foil Merry Christmas design worked best with my embroidery. When they arrived, I was extremely delighted with the quality of the card,
You have six days to get to Baltimore to see the best crazy quilt exhibit I've ever seen at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Run, walk, drive, take a train...it's absolutely worth your effort. A small show of seven quilts... What it lacks in size it makes up in quality. The quilts are in amazing condition... Anita Jones, the textile curator at the BMA, has outdone herself this time and we should all send her a thank you note ! The quilts are approachable and well-lit... And you can get your face right up cl
Last Fall when I went to Chincoteague, VA to stitch with friends, Jim came and joined me for part of the weekend. We had never been to Assateague Island so one morning we woke before dawn and headed East to the beach for sunrise... The sun held promise for a new day and for warming the salt spray chill that blanketed the beach on that crisp November morning. Except for a flock of terns and gulls... We were quite alone. So Jim fell into his tide line ritual of walking the wrack line ...a beach intent Sherl