This year our parish, St. John Cantius, celebrates 125 years. Kind of a big deal that. We thought we would make a St. John Cantius chasuble in honor of the o...

I will start by saying, you are not supposed to do things like this. ​ Some of our designs are rather complicated. There needs to be a solid chunk of time se...

I took a great online course with EGA to learn the basics of gold work embroidery. They offer many classes in all types of embroidery. They have local chapte...

If you want the best education in the art of the needle, the Royal School of Needlework is the place to go. It's like the Julliard of stitchers. The commute w...

Let’s go visit Antonio José Pardal Martín. He looks like he knows what he’s doing, yes? I hear Spain is lovely this time of year. Check out his website.

I often get asked to show the contents of this thrift store purse that I turned into my sewing bag. I love to hand it, with no explanation, to a young girl s...

This is purely about eye candy, with a little back story. Br. Joseph just mentioned in passing that he had noticed some 'troughs' (!) of silk thread at the a...

This is a 1950s Cornely chain stitch machine. I think we’ve named him Cornelius, and he has already stitched his very first project (a restoration) as a new ...

Well, phooey. I just can’t find that series of videos that showed those lovely old women harvesting flax and turning it into linen. Please tell me they’re no...

Nice to have her finished in time for her feast day on December 13. From the Saint John Cantius post about her installation: December 13th is the Feast of St...

Don recently gave us a pile of well loved amices for repairs. While most people would have perhaps just retired them we thought we would see if they could be...

This goes under the category of ‘Weirdest Things That Show Up On Our Table’ Meet Saint Lucy... ...well, at least part of her. This reliquary, or simulacrum, ...

We're spending time with this lovely Sacred Heart cope. Kristina has been fixing the couching of the gold thread and restoring numerous areas where chain sti...

One of my favorite projects is nearing completion. Fr. regularly gets calls about taking on the furnishings of churches that are closing. Sometimes the altar...

I have nursed my first burse to completion. It reminds me of bookbinding. Or maybe purse making. Or maybe both. I had a little trouble with the needle action...

When Fr. P mentioned that he had some embroidery frames for us to use whenever we got around to embroidering bigger things, all of this loveliness was somehow...