Archive for April, 2011
Good things come in three’s
Good things come in three’s – like new designs, and yes, I have three of them. First, there’s a brand new Mini-Impressionism design. Mini-impressionism designs are finished to a 5×5 size and are designed to look like an impressionist painting. That means all whole stitches – no backstitching or partial stitches! This one was designed [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on April 14th, 2011 tagged design work, new releases | 19 Comments »
Fessing up
Apparently no one fell for my fox story. That is part of the challenge of trying to use the same April Fool’s joke every year. My mother called me on April 1 and the first thing I asked her was, “Was she calling about that fox in the yard?” We both laughed. This year, I [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on April 5th, 2011 tagged April 1, just life | 2 Comments »
S4L Book Club – The Graveyard Book
We’re reading and discussing The Graveyard Book this month in the Stitching for Literacy Book Club. Here, I’ll post my answer to the question(s) I posted at the official Stitching for Literacy Blog. Obviously, I enjoyed this book since I picked it. This was my second time reading it, and it had been over a [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on April 5th, 2011 tagged book review | 1 Comment »
Weird Happenings
There’s a common slogan around town, “Keep Austin Weird”, and we’ve had a couple of incidents lately that really show how weird Austin can be! First, it is important to know that Austin is home to the largest urban colony of Mexican free-tailed bats in North America. So maybe it wasn’t too weird that a [...]