Alicia P.'s Profile

Summer Stitching 2022

Oh, you know it! I still want to be invited but I'm not coming! I'm staying home with my kitters, and my needle and thread, and my Monty Don shows and my nightgown and my Stella light and maybe the... Continue reading

Posted Jun 24, 2022 at Posie Gets Cozy

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Summer Starts

A mostly cold and rainy start, but still, it's a start! We've had a busy and fun few weeks, with a ballet recital, a midsummer festival, and a trip to Oaks Park amusement park for Father's Day. I love these... Continue reading

Posted Jun 23, 2022 at Posie Gets Cozy

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This Was May

This was May, though there were a lot more necklaces, paintings, flowers, books, getting cats out of trees, worry, and tears for the state of the world. A lot more tears. And helpless, seething anger and fear for our children's... Continue reading

Posted Jun 1, 2022 at Posie Gets Cozy

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Big Blossoms

That exact lilac is sitting on my desk right now, the first I've picked of the season. It's actually my neighbor's bush that hangs over our fence. It's way in the back of their yard where they never go and... Continue reading

Posted May 9, 2022 at Posie Gets Cozy

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Fooling Around with Beads Lately

And where have a been lately, you might ask? Making jewelry. Random! I have such capricious interests and habits. Every month it's a new obsession. For the past two weeks, all I've been doing is figuring out how to make... Continue reading

Posted Apr 26, 2022 at Posie Gets Cozy

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A Tender Year: April

A Tender Year: April embroidery pattern is now available! This design was stitched on Kona cotton (this time in colorway Bone) and wrapped around an inexpensive 5" x 7" (13cm x 18cm) stretched canvas. (If you'd like a tutorial on... Continue reading

Posted Apr 12, 2022 at Posie Gets Cozy

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** Thank You **

Thank you so much for all your kind words about Clover. We read every comment and were moved to tears several times. I am so touched that there are still so many of you who remembered when we got her... Continue reading

Posted Apr 11, 2022 at Posie Gets Cozy

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XOX

It hurts my heart to write this and tell you that Clover Meadow passed away last week. Andy took this picture of her and Agatha on the occasion of Agatha's first time in the yard just a few days before.... Continue reading

Posted Apr 4, 2022 at Posie Gets Cozy

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Spring Break

It's spring break this week, and Amelia and I have been busy gym-shoe and other shopping for her. Shoe shopping is not what it was. I was longing for a Stride Rite or a Buster Brown, and a kindly salesman... Continue reading

Posted Mar 23, 2022 at Posie Gets Cozy

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Deep in the Details

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to every person who purchased A Tender Year: March embroidery pattern so far. I was able to send a check for $250 to the Ukrainian Bible Church aid fund on Tuesday and... Continue reading

Posted Mar 11, 2022 at Posie Gets Cozy

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A Tender Year: March

I designed this piece a few weeks ago, when the daffodils were just starting to emerge and the threat of war against Ukraine was not yet a reality. As the days have unfolded in more and more fear, sorrow, and... Continue reading

Posted Mar 1, 2022 at Posie Gets Cozy

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Quilt Back Details

I loved reading all the comments on the Fluff Pouf post. Thank you! A few people did have questions about how to do the back and finish the quilt so I took some pictures last week of the green and... Continue reading

Posted Feb 18, 2022 at Posie Gets Cozy

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Fluff Pouf One

Quite pleased with my fluff pouf!!! I decided to keep it! :) It fits right in here and is warm and soft and cozy and wrinkled and creamy and cushy and sweet. I used an Ikea Myskgras to fill it... Continue reading

Posted Feb 7, 2022 at Posie Gets Cozy

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Tattered Hearts

I made some Tattered Hearts on little wire hangers out of my cutter quilt. They are $32 each and, even though the USPS for some inexplicable reason took away my neighborhood mailbox that I use every. other. day. (I did... Continue reading

Posted Feb 3, 2022 at Posie Gets Cozy

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A Tender Year: February

A Tender Year: February embroidery pattern is now available! I ordered a cutter quilt from Etsy the other day and it's supposed to be here today. I'm really excited. It's better than the one I lost. When it gets here... Continue reading

Posted Jan 31, 2022 at Posie Gets Cozy

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Very Impulsive Lately

A sunbreak! Aw, sunshine. It's very cold outside. I'm scrambling to get caught up. Last week got away from me. I'm working to get my February pattern finished and I owe you a tutorial on wrapping canvas. Those are coming.... Continue reading

Posted Jan 24, 2022 at Posie Gets Cozy

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January Morning

Cold and rainy this morning. Dark. Sloppy muddy outside. Most of the kiddos are having trouble with Zoom this morning. I feel sorry for the teacher. He is trying hard to suss out the problems (we're suddenly having problems, too)... Continue reading

Posted Jan 11, 2022 at Posie Gets Cozy

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New Year's Eve

A Christmas wish came true when we got snow last week in the days after Christmas. It was just the perfect snow: big, fat flakes that swirled and stuck, no wind at all, temps not even that cold. We walked... Continue reading

Posted Dec 31, 2021 at Posie Gets Cozy

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We and the Trees

Ugh, this last one would've made such a cute Christmas card! Alas, in an uncharacteristic burst of organization and wherewithal, I've already had mine printed. But they're not as "Amelia" as this photo. This photo is just so her. T... Continue reading

Posted Dec 9, 2021 at Posie Gets Cozy

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* Winter Rabbit Now Available *

Oh, I got so lucky with this design! It just hopped out of my fingers into the design program. Like, I drew the rabbit the way I wanted to on the first try. That literally never happens for me. I... Continue reading

Posted Nov 29, 2021 at Posie Gets Cozy

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Natural Beauty

I mean, what can I say. Mother Nature speaks for herself here, much more eloquently in a single arc of wild rosehips than I could ever hope to. I wish you could smell the forest, and hear the birdsong, hear... Continue reading

Posted Nov 24, 2021 at Posie Gets Cozy

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Mud Days

Soggy is an understatement. It pours and pours. It pours every day. It's warm, windy, and wet. I feel like I'm slogging through mud, inside and out. Inside, I knit and knit. Hundreds, thousands of yards of stitches, on fingering-weight... Continue reading

Posted Nov 12, 2021 at Posie Gets Cozy

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Autumn Skies

The weather has certainly changed and fall is here here here. The yellows are vibrant, the skies are gray. Amelia and I found a glorious patch of cosmos flowers near the muddy soccer fields near Reed College. Purple and pink,... Continue reading

Posted Oct 29, 2021 at Posie Gets Cozy

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October Birthday

Oh, this girl. I love her so. She is such a sweetheart. Her birthday was lovely. It started the day before her birthday and went through the weekend. She wore her fancy dress for much of it. She decorated her... Continue reading

Posted Oct 18, 2021 at Posie Gets Cozy

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Make It More Mellow

Gosh, the light has been so harsh lately. Every time we go out it feels like blazing sun in a cloudless sky, or in a sky where the clouds are of zero consequence, and it's harsh. It hurts my eyes.... Continue reading

Posted Oct 9, 2021 at Posie Gets Cozy

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