Completed Vernet embroidery. Upside down, I've noticed. Pray it doesn't end up that way on the dress. It could, you know. I'...

Vernet is alive and well in this household, thank you. I may be more than a year behind, but it's a wonderful dress that should see the...

Nina. Eight pounds. Fuzzy, warm, adorable. The first for Lana. The first for us. The boys' own lamb. Here she is not long after bir...

Holding Lana before she's sheared. Some of that dual coat is six inches long, and it's almost as dense as felt, without being fe...

Once upon a time there was a Shetland sheep, almost a year old. Her name was Lana, and she had long, tawny wool, almost like hair, and s...

Reverse side of piece of finely produced eyelet embroidery with new threads laid on top for comparison. Discussion below.  The embroi...

Arrival of Louis XVIII at Calais, 1814; Edward Bird. Courtesy BBC Your Pictures. More info . Are those angels on the stairs? No, sailor...

What? A post? Yes indeed. Brief, but a post...about the Vernet project ! The Chapeau à l'Anglaise, Robe à la Ninon is the plate I s...

The most snow since 1998, at least. The coldest since 1936, at least. Mardi Gras almost forgotten, Ash Wednesday celebrated at home, except...