This is my first ever blog so please be patient with me, while I learn. The following quote was the inspiration for my blog's name.  

All my scattering moments are taken up with my needle.  ~Ellen Birdseye Wheaton, 1851

I have always loved and been fascinated by needlework of any kind. My mother taught me to sew at a very young age.  I remember making my first apron on a Singer treadle machine.  I was quite proud when I presented it to my Grandmother for her birthday.  That was a time when women wore dresses and an apron was always handy.  In my mind's eye, I can see her wearing that apron and whipping up a batch of the best ginger crisp cookies the world has ever known!

My mother was a knitter extraordinaire.  Her steel needles clicked faster than the wheels of an express train.   Clickity, click click! She didn't like to do anything with cables, but she made the most beautiful lace baby sweaters and Fair Isle items. I have never learned to be a speedster with the needles, but I can handle cables and lace. Unfortunately, I am in no way accomplished with color changes.  No matter how hard I try and how careful I am, there is always a small gap where the changes are. Maybe, I need to practice more.

I enjoy knitting and sewing, but my true passion lies in embroidery and CROSS STITCH!  To watch a blank piece of fabric turn into a work of art is truly amazing.  Years ago when my children were little, I tried to cross stitch.  It didn't work out.  Small house and too many demands on my time.  But . . .

Years pass and life changes. Something reminds me of the craft I had loved and abandoned.  I find some floss and a piece of Laguna fabric that had made the move to Florida with us.  Yea! I downloaded Teresa Wentzler's Medieval Miniature and the passion is there.  I stitched it over two rather than over one and it is a beautiful size. Now I am stitching designs by Nora Corbett, Joan Elliott, Margaret Sherry and many others!

I have some interest outside of needle crafts and will post about them as well.  

I enjoy cooking.  Baking especially.  I love collecting recipes from all over the world. My husband thinks I have far too many cookbooks. No way! A girl can't have too much craft supplies or too many cookbooks.  

Skin allergies caused me to examine skin care products which in turn led me to make my own soap!  This process allows me to be creative but also to feel like a mad scientist in my laboratory!

Thanks for reading!  I hope I haven't bored you.  Pictures to come. P.S. Did I mention how much I like to read?