Category Archives: Needlework and Crafts

Descriptions of crafty actions (we have a cunning plan . . .)

Another lost to us

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Marchbanks

A friend of ours suddenly and unexpectedly died of a heart attack. Continue reading →

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A belated birthday present

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Marchbanks

I have pieces like that, as does L—we know who we mean them to go to, but sometimes it takes a Really Long Time to get them finished. Continue reading →

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I have a hemstitcher

Posted on March 17, 2007 by Marchbanks

L made the sensible suggestion that it might have originally belonged to my great-grandmother. Continue reading →

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It was time . . . .

Posted on August 6, 2003 by Marchbanks

I’ve had a half-done page on needlework for my personal Web site sitting around for a couple of years, and today I decided I might as well release what I have. Continue reading →

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Something I did for me

Posted on March 22, 2003 by Marchbanks

The skirt is, as L put it, “forty-eight goddamn inches long!” Continue reading →

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The Embellishment conference

Posted on February 24, 1995 by Marchbanks

There were tons of antique and modern buttons, lampworking and metalworking materials, polymer clay, and beads, beads, beads, beads, beads. Continue reading →

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