Needle Nicely Has Their 500th Birthday

Needle Nicely just turned turned 500! Actually neither the shop nor Mary Agnes Ruddy Cussen the owner are actually five hundred, (OW! Mary Agnes threw a shoe at me!!!) but the Needle Nicely blog just added its five hundredth blog posting. Congratulations!  Mary Agnes sums up a bit of the history of the shop and its blog here.  As always, it is a fun read.
http://needlenicely.blogspot.com/2014/12/500-smackeroos-that-is-blog-posts-wow.html

Happy Blogging, MA.  Here's to many, many more essays from your interesting mind.

Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
© Copyright December 20,  2014 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Jacobean Crewel Work and Traditional Design

Thanks to Anna Scott, I have a link to the Smithsonian's online archive copy of Jacobean Crewel Work and Traditional Design.   The second link is for those who want to download a copy instead of reading it online.
https://archive.org/stream/jacobeancrewelwo00pene#page/n1/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/jacobeancrewelwo00pene

This was published in 1900 by Penelope, an obvious pseudonym, and is out of copyright.  Hopefully crewel lovers will enjoy a browse and those who are curious about crewel stitches will enjoy the lovely color photos.

Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
© Copyright December 16, 2014 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.