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My name is Mary Ruth Anderson (My nickname is Essie) and I’m a blogger that focuses on illustration, sewing, and nature photography. I currently live in Arizona.

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  • Christmas,  Crafts,  Embroidery,  My Blog

    Winter Deer Scene Embroidery Kit Progress: The Finished Scene & Final Thoughts

    Hi everyone! It’s time for the final post about the Winter Deer Scene embroidery kit progress! In this post, I am showing the finished embroidery without the hoop. I am also going to talk about the embroidery design and if…

    By essieofwho December 26, 2025
  • Christmas,  Embroidery,  My Blog

    Winter Deer Scene Embroidery Kit Progress: One Tree Finished & Progress On the Second

    Hi everyone! It’s time for one last update post for the Winter Deer Scene I was embroidering. By the time I took the progress photos in this post, I was feeling a major creative burnout. I’ll go more into it…

    By essieofwho December 19, 2025
  • Christmas,  Embroidery,  My Blog

    Winter Deer Scene Embroidery Kit Progress: Progress On the Trees & Problems With the Pattern Lines

    Hi everyone! Time for a new post about the Winter Deer embroidery knit I worked on earlier this year. This time, I will be talking about the progress I made on embroidering the trees. I will also be talking about…

    By essieofwho December 12, 2025
  • Embroidery,  My Blog

    Winter Deer Scene Embroidery Kit Progress: Finished Deer and Some Green Embroidery

    Hi everyone! It’s time for another progress post for the Winter Deer Scene Embroidery Kit. I already mentioned in my previous posts about this kit (You can read them here and here) but I worked on this kit months ago.…

    By essieofwho December 5, 2025
  • Embroidery,  My Blog

    Winter Deer Scene Embroidery Kit Progress and New Floss Color Choices

    Hi everyone! It’s time for a progress post on my Winter Deer Scene embroidery kit! For this post, I want to show the first phase of progress as well as talk about my new color choices for the floss. I…

    By essieofwho November 28, 2025
  • Embroidery,  My Blog

    New Embroidery Project: Winter Deer Scene

    Hi everyone! A few months ago, I began to work on a new embroidery project. It is part of an embroidery kit I purchased off Amazon. I already finished embroidered one of the designs. I talked about it in this…

    By essieofwho November 24, 2025
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    Snowy Mountain Scene Embroidery Update- The Finished Project and Thoughts on It

    Hi everyone! It’s been months since I published a post about my embroidery. So far progress has been slow on all my embroidery kits. I’m not sure when I’ll be able to finish all my kits, but I know now…

    By essieofwho August 8, 2025
  • Embroidery,  My Blog,  Sewing

    Progress Update on My Winter Mountain Embroidery Kit

    Hi everyone! In 2023, I decided to pick up embroidery again. I used to embroider in my teens and early twenties, but I stopped due to health concerns I had (They were unrelated to my hands, yet it impacted them)…

    By essieofwho April 8, 2025
  • Crafts,  Embroidery,  My Blog

    Picking Up Embroidery Again and The Struggle to Find Embroidery Floss (Right Now at Least)

    Hi everyone! After many years, I finally decided to pick up embroidering again. When I was in college, I used to love embroidery. I had ideas for embroidery patterns. Years later, when I tried to make costumes and cosplay, I…

    By essieofwho October 23, 2023
  • Code Geass,  Costume,  Princess Euphemia,  Sewing,  White and Gold Dress

    Princess Euphemia Skirt Embroidery

    To make a long story short, I had an idea back in 2008 to make a cosplay of a gold/white dress one of Clamp’s characters wears, but instead of painting or appliqueing the gold designs on the dress I would…

    By essieofwho October 10, 2012

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