At the beginning of this year (2012) I couldn't shake the urge to return to my needlework. I am planning to continue to work from patterns I have collected in the past but I would also like to be able to offer some of my own ideas.

My first efforts will be small Free projects and I'll see how those are received. I also plan to put together Tutorials from time to time and if there is enough feedback, I will look ahead to doing more of that. You can find more links at the bottom of the page.

In the meantime, please feel free to stop in and visit my gallery of  needlework projects from the past. I have one project I finished to start the year off and am posting her here because she is so unusual. She is a design by Catherine Coleman, called "Follow Me".  I used to test patterns for Catherine so I was fortunate to be able to make many of her first designs.

Thank you for stopping by to visit.  

The head, hands body and feet are wooden, sprayed metallic gold. the body is layers of needlework done on 18 ct. mono canvas. The sleeves and legs I did a little differently. I used Lugana to stitch the panels in the sleeves and finished them and the legs with Dupioni silk.

There is also Dupioni silk, that goes around the side edges of the body. The wings are made with a sparkly wired ribbon and finally she's trimmed with gold cording on the front and back of the body as well on the feet.