Author Archives: craftycreeky

About craftycreeky

I live in a busy market town in Yorkshire with my husband, kids, dogs and chickens. I love trying new crafts, rediscovering old ones, gardening, walking...anything creative really I started this blog after my New Year resolution worked so well. My resolution (the first one I've ever kept!) was to post a photograph of my garden on Facebook every day. My hope was that I would then see what was good in the garden and not just weeds and work, which was my tendency. The unexpected side-effect was that I have enjoyed many more hours in the garden. I am hoping that 'The Crafty Creek' will have the same effect. Happy creating!

Stitch-a-Garden

Posted on August 23, 2022 by craftycreeky

As part of the stitch-a-garden course Nicki Franklyn from The Stitchery has included little samplers of how to stitch different parts of the garden. I stitched a tree and shrub sampler earlier in the course… It’s useful to see different … Continue reading →

Posted in embroidery, Stitching my Garden, Workshops | Tagged flower embroidery, Stitching my Garden | 2 Comments

Merging Workshops

Posted on August 22, 2022 by craftycreeky

We’ve had a busy couple of weeks here, hence very few posts! Our house sale has fallen through as our buyers pulled out, luckily before we had incurred costs for purchasing the one we wanted! Other countries seem to have … Continue reading →

Posted in embroidery, Stitch-a-long, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books, Workshops | Tagged cartography, embroidery, Stitch a garden, Yorkshire Dales | 7 Comments

Staying Home HQAL

Posted on August 14, 2022 by craftycreeky

We’ve had a busy few weeks recently, we’ve accepted an offer on our house and we’ve found somewhere to move to. On Friday we found out our offer has been accepted which is a huge relief! The housing market here … Continue reading →

Posted in Quilt-a-long | Tagged Hand-quilting, Staying Home quilt | 11 Comments

Stitch-a-Garden SAL

Posted on August 7, 2022 by craftycreeky

I’ve finally made a bit more progress on my garden stitching, not a huge amount as I’m still a bit hesitant on how I’m going to get the effect I want. Three weeks ago on my last SAL post I’d … Continue reading →

Posted in embroidery, Garden, Stitch-a-long, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books, Workshops | Tagged embroidery, Stitching my Garden, The Stitchery | 10 Comments

Stitching Maps

Posted on August 4, 2022 by craftycreeky

I started an on line embroidery course with Zara Day a few weeks ago on cartography, I love looking at maps and I’ve a couple of ideas rumbling round my head of embroidered maps, so hopefully this will give me … Continue reading →

Posted in embroidery, Quilting, Workshops | Tagged cartography, embroidery, maps, Zara Day | 3 Comments

Garden Stitching

Posted on August 2, 2022 by craftycreeky

I’ve been busy stitching over the last week, just haven’t quite got round to writing about it. I’ve stitched another couple of little embroideries for my garden book. These are both from the mystery bundle I bought from Soukie Soo, … Continue reading →

Posted in embroidery, Garden, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books | Tagged embroidery, SoukieSoo, Stitching my Garden | 4 Comments

A Butterfly Book

Posted on August 1, 2022 by craftycreeky

We had a fabulous workshop last month at Skipton Stitchers, one of our members ran it, it was called a Garden Book workshop and I really didn’t know what to expect. The equipment list was things like papers, fabric, paper … Continue reading →

Posted in Skipton Stitchers, Textile Books | Tagged Butterflies, mixed media, Skipton Stitchers | 8 Comments

Staying Home Quilt HQAL

Posted on July 24, 2022 by craftycreeky

Having to write this post today for the Hand Quilt-a-long gave me the impetus I needed yesterday to start it. I found the fabrics I had ear-marked for the back which were three remnants of varying sizes left over from … Continue reading →

Posted in Quilt-a-long, Quilting | Tagged Hand quilting, Staying Home quilt | 14 Comments

Stitching a Treasure Bundle

Posted on July 22, 2022 by craftycreeky

I seem to be doing a lot of embroidery at the moment, lots of little ones which don’t take long but are lovely to stitch…and they’ll go in my garden textile book. These ones are from a ‘Treasure Bundle’ I … Continue reading →

Posted in embroidery, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books | Tagged embroidery, lilac, Sookie Soo, Stitch a garden | 3 Comments

Stitching Maps

Posted on July 21, 2022 by craftycreeky

I’ve enrolled on a Zara Day Cartography Embroidery course, I’m way behind as usual but as Zara sends links for all the recordings which I can then save, it doesn’t matter how long I take! I’m just enjoying the journey! … Continue reading →