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Category Archives: embroidery
The Seaside Quilt HQAL
I’ve not made as much progress as I’d hoped over the last three weeks with my seaside quilt, mainly because I’ve been dress-making more as I’ve realized those four or five extra pounds I’ve put on during lockdowns have been … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Quilt-a-long, Quilting
Tagged applique, embroidery, Quilting, The Seaside Quilt
10 Comments
Leafy Tree SAL
It’s happy dance time with my Leafy Tree embroidery. This is a design by Mary Corbet of Needle’n’Thread. It’s available in an e-book which I found worked really well for this project, I could print off the necessary pages but … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Serendipity, Stitch-a-long
Tagged embroidery, Mary Corbett, The Leafy Tree
17 Comments
Blackbirds
I’m trying to work my way through the multitude of kits I’ve bought from Andrea of Raggedy Ruff Designs, three weeks ago I’d just finished the machine embroidery of a lampshade kit giving the detail on the blackbirds and flowers.It’s … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Quilting, Stitch-a-long
Tagged blackbirds, lampshade kit, Raggedy Ruff Designs
14 Comments
On a Roll
I’m trying to keep my New Year Resolution of making up the cross-stitch smalls as I stitch them, so far so good. However I still have a couple waiting to be made up so whilst I was in a finishing … Continue reading
Posted in cross-stitch, embroidery, kits, Serendipity, Smalls of the Month
Tagged cross-stitch, Cross-stitch smalls, Fido Stitch Studio, Wren
9 Comments
A Little Sunshine
This one was a pretty quick make, I started stitching on Thursday as I waited for my physio appointment, finished it on Sunday, and made it up yesterday. It’s another facebook destash pattern!! The pattern is an old one (2008) … Continue reading
Posted in cross-stitch, embroidery, Serendipity, Smalls of the Month
Tagged Cross-stitch smalls, Scatter Sunshine
10 Comments
A Small Kingfisher
A couple of weeks ago I finished another kit from Fido Stitch Studio on Etsy. I think this is the fifth kit of theirs I’ve stitched. They’re only small but they have plenty of detail. These are my others… The … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, kits, Smalls of the Month
Tagged cross-stitch, Cross-stitch smalls, Fido Stitch Studio, kingfisher
12 Comments
The Leafy Tree SAL
It’s three weeks since I last posted about my Leafy Tree embroidery, this is a design by Mary Corbet of Needle ‘n’ Thread, it comes as an e-book which works pretty well, I’m not a lover of reading books or … Continue reading
Blackbird Lampshade
Last Sunday I shared my latest Raggedy Ruff design, I’m particularly pleased with this one as I only had the pattern, not the kit with all the fabrics in. I’ve done several of these kits now and I save every … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Quilting
Tagged applique, blackbirds, Free Machine Embroidery, Raggedy Ruff Designs
6 Comments
A Medieval Pincushion
This afternoon I cracked on and finished the flowery pincushion, yesterday when I posted I had two flowers left… I stitched the cone flower in bullion knots and the allium in irregular cross-stitch. It was nice to learn last night … Continue reading
A Medieval Pincushion
We’ve just had a few days away in a little cottage in Northumberland, it’s the same cottage we went to last September,it’s an old railway cottage called Whistlestop in a little hamlet of Redesmouth, it’s relaxed and comfortable, well equipped … Continue reading


