I love a good shop hop! I’ve participated in a number of Quilt Shop Hops & even a few Cross Stitch Shops Hops (heck – I participated in one years ago as a shop owner!!) – One of my Big List goals for 2024 was to be more consistent with

Cool Beans – a bit of a series update How do you take your coffee? Seriously. Very Seriously.     I spotted a conversation between stitchers on social media the other day. These awesome stitchers were comparing notes about the series ‘Cool Beans’ & the large border design that you

Let LOVE Grow It’s that time of year again… our wedding anniversary & what has become a Hands On Design tradition – the token of love.   I present Let LOVE Grow – I was afraid it would come across a little too much ‘live, laugh, love’ (insert eye roll

Welcome to my picture walk finishing tutorial for how I completed the cap on my strawberries in The Berry Basket series. I plan to finish each one in the same manner so hopefully, you will be a pro by the time I fill the fruit basket with these berries! (Yes,

I was never one of those girls that thought much about what my wedding would be like…the dress, the ceremony. Maybe I just didn’t have enough experience with weddings… maybe by the time Bill & I got married, we had lived separately (he was finishing grad school in FL &

So much of the time, I have a very specific ‘finish’ in my head. Other times, I let the finish talk to me as I work through it. Yes, you read that correctly. 😉 Here, I walk you through the steps that I followed to finish this year’s anniversary token

I’m not really sure which one of us said ‘love you’ 1st oh those many years ago (I think it was Bill), but I for sure remember that the response was & always has been ‘love you too’. I felt like this was the perfect theme for this year’s Anniversary

It’s Picture Walk Time!! Every year – I swear that I’m going to make handmade gifts for friends and not soon after I am glad to know that I don’t have that many friends!! 😉 A few years back I bought this great tablecloth at a vintage store. It wasn’t

Last May I released a chart titled ‘Home of the Brave’. I licensed this lovely piece of artwork from Lily & Val, LLC – you can read more about the design on the product page as well as FlossTube #67 where Mr. HOD & I chat about the most recent

Are you a Spring Stitcher? I think a lot of stitchers work on their pumpkins & ornaments year round…but there seems to be a point in the year – right about now – when we put the snowmen stitches aside for something fresh! Birds, bees (we’re talking stitching remember), blooms…soft