Embroidery ⁽³⁾

For Christmas this year, my partner and I are hosting his family at our new place. To avoid the stress of each person having to get an individual gift for every other person, his family does a Yankee Swap (not to be confused with White…

For this shirt, I was first inspired by a portrait of Elizabeth I that I came across in the chapter on blackwork in The Royal School of Needlework's "Book of Embroidery." In the portrait, she has gorgeous sleeves covered in floral blackwork embroidery. I loved…

I did it! I've finished the Over the Garden Pillows I set out to make almost two years ago. You know those projects that linger—unfinished—in your closet for years? This was one of those. The way these came out would make my little 12-year-old self…