RuthieMae's Stitch Cottage

I've started a new embroidery project and it's the biggest project I've ever attempted. It's called Home Sweet Home, An Embroidered Workbox by Carolyn Pearce. When I first came across a post about this little workbox for needlework tools, on an embroidery group on Facebook, I was simply enchanted. I dug around and found a good used copy and only flinched a little at paying over $40.00 for it. Inspirations Publishing is in the process of releasing a 10th Anniversary edition. I may actually get that one too, because it has a couple of new projects for cute needlework accessories which were not in the earlier edition. I've followed the example Janet Granger used on her blog and am making the little accessories first. This past weekend, I used my fancy lightbox and traced the pin cushion pattern. I've traced a couple of larger embroidery patterns with relative ease, but this tiny pattern on a nice linen/cotton blend gave me a major headache. I tried it with my Frixx...

 Hi, I'm blogging as RuthieMae's Stitch Cottage. I now have the time and means to explore my love of different kinds of needlework, specifically: Thread Crochet, Embroidery, and some kinds of quilting, like Applique. This blog is a journal, of sorts, for my renewed commitment to explorations in needlework.  I've loved making little things since I was a little girl. I made sock puppets and sewed shell beads onto scraps of fabric while sitting in the floor of my mother's sewing room. Those are among my earliest memories. When I was around 8, I learned crochet from my maternal Grandmother. I'm kind of left handed, but switch back and forth on some things. For a long time that was called being Ambilateral instead of Ambidextrous. Now they are calling it Handedness Confusion. That's very amusing, because I've always had to figure out which hand does which task the best and it was sometimes very confusing. :) So, I was sitting on the floor by Grandma's chair, ...