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Category Archives: embroidery
Anthea SAL
I’ve just finished this month’s stitching for the Anthea SAL by Faby Reilly. The stitch-a-long is of a flower themed design for each month, you can either stitch them into one big picture or individually. I’m doing them individually, but … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Stitch-a-long, Textile Books
Tagged Anthea Calendar SAL, cross-stitch, Faby Reilly Designs, wordplay
28 Comments
Counting Sheep
I stitch for lots of reasons, I found over the last couple of weeks that a little cross-stitch helps to keep me calm, in the hours before my mum’s funeral I stitched, a couple of times I woke up at … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Smalls of the Month
Tagged Cross-stitch smalls, Little Sheep Virtues
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Textile Memories
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on a textile book of all the finished and unfinished crafty things we found when clearing my mum’s house when she went into a care home a couple of years ago. … Continue reading
March Smalls
I’ve only just got round to changing my smalls display, partly because I was enjoying the Faby Reilly ones so much. However, as it’s over half way through March I decided it was time for a change. It’s our wedding … Continue reading
The Finery of Nature SAL
I still can’t quite believe I’m writing this, it’s just over twelve months since I started my Finery of Nature and it’s time for a very Happy Dance!!! I’ve actually finished it! It’s a Dimensions kit I got from the … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Serendipity, Stitch-a-long
Tagged cross-stitch, The Finery of Nature
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Textile Memories
I gave you a sneak preview on Tuesday of what I’ve been working on this week, my mum’s textile memories book. She was a prolific craftlady, trying all sorts of different crafts over the years and when we cleared her … Continue reading
Posted in Crafts, embroidery, Serendipity, Textile Books
Tagged Memories textile book, textile book
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Anthea SAL Book
I’m stitching the Anthea Calendar this year, it’s a stitch-a-long by Faby Reilly. Each month we get a design which includes a seasonal flower, I’ve decided to double my workload by making it into a textile book with a facing … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Stitch-a-long, Textile Books
Tagged Anthea Calendar SAL, cross-stitch, wordplay
22 Comments
Anthea Calendar SAL
Last month I started the latest SAL from Faby Reilly, it’s called the Anthea SAL and it’s a sort of flower calendar, it can be stitched as one big picture or twelve little ones. I decided to do them individually … Continue reading
Christmas HQAL
It’s three weeks since I last shared my new hand quilting project, a Christmas runner with 24 embroidered squares. The embroideries were a surprise SAL from Hugs’n’kisses before Christmas,their suggestion was to use them for an Advent calendar, we don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, embroidery, Quilt-a-long, Quilting
Tagged Christmas, embroidery, Hand-quilting, redwork
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A Faby Fest for February
I was thinking about which cross-stitch smalls to put on display for February, last year it was all lovey-dovey ones for Valentines Day, but we have our wedding anniversary in March so most of them stay out for next month … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Smalls of the Month, Stitch-a-long
Tagged Cross-stitch smalls, Faby Reilly Designs
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