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 chasub...

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 so...

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. Th...

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 sti...

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 o...

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 explanatio...

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

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 re...

Well, phooey. I just can’t find that series of videos that showed those lovely old women harvesting flax and turning it into linen. Pleas...

Nice to have her finished in time for her feast day on December 13. From the Saint John Cantius post about her installation: December 13t...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 wi...

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 l...