Category: Tools and Setup

Denver airport took my stork scissors in 2021. No drama, just a tired TSA agent sliding my $28 Dovo gold

I bought the DMC floss color card in 2021 for $32, unfolded it, stared at 500 tiny thread samples in

I refused to wear a thimble for two full years because every one I tried felt like a tiny torture

In 2019 I bought a pair of Dovo 3.5-inch gold stork scissors for $28, and I loved them the way

My first garment project was a plain white tee with a sunflower in DMC 725. I treated it exactly like

Last spring I stitched a blue tit panel, six inches of satin stitch on Zweigart linen, and by the third

I stitched an entire floral border in what I believed was dusty rose. Under my living room lamp it was

I stitched hunched over the left arm of our old IKEA couch for a year. The one with the spring

For my first year of stitching, my floss lived in a gallon Ziploc bag. Forty-seven skeins, one bag, and every

My embroidery floss vs thread education cost me a weekend and a floral border. I bought a cone of something