Category Archives: embroidery

Butterfly Alphabet SAL

Posted on May 11, 2025 by craftycreeky

Apologies for being so quiet on here, our building work still isn’t finished, though yesterday we had our first bath and cooked a roast dinner in the new oven…so things are moving forward! Any spare time I have had has … Continue reading →

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Butterfly Alphabet SAL

Posted on April 20, 2025 by craftycreeky

Happy Easter everyone! We had a family meal yesterday, so today was spent undercoating and gloss painting in the kitchen before the units go in. I hate gloss painting, probably because I don’t think I’m very good at it, but … Continue reading →

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Birds and Blooms

Posted on March 31, 2025 by craftycreeky

It’s Otley Show soon and I’ve entered several handicraft classes including cross-stitch. I decided to make another fabric book using various cross-stitch birds and flowers I’ve stitched over the years plus a few new ones. We regularly get long-tail tits … Continue reading →

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Butterfly Alphabet SAL

Posted on March 30, 2025 by craftycreeky

Where did the last three weeks go, probably in a blur of wall paper stripping and now painting! I have made a bit of progress, but not a lot! Happy Mothers Day to mums all over the world, I’ve spent … Continue reading →

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Bobbin Along

Posted on March 22, 2025 by craftycreeky

I’m so far behind with both reading and writing blogs, we’re having the kitchen and dining room knocked into one and a bathroom redesigned at the same time…seemed a good idea at the time!! We currently have no kitchen and … Continue reading →

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Butterfly Alphabet

Posted on March 9, 2025 by craftycreeky

It’s chaos at home at the moment, chaotic and very dusty! This week builders have started on our kitchen/dining room so walls have been knocked down, steel joists put up…you get the picture! The dust gets everywhere!! I know I’ve … Continue reading →

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Butterfly Alphabet

Posted on February 16, 2025 by craftycreeky

Having finished my Bee book I have just this week started a new project. It’s a kit that’s been in my stash for some time, gradually creeping up the to do list, I’m pretty sure I bought it for about … Continue reading →

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Two Words

Posted on February 12, 2025 by craftycreeky

I caught up with the Anne Brooke Bobbin Along challenge last night. Each week she adds a little more stitching to a piece to represent a word, we’ve had layers, rolls. hummock…and a couple of weeks ago it was wrinkle. … Continue reading →

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A Mini Moon gazer

Posted on February 10, 2025 by craftycreeky

Since starting the Sewing Room Declutter Challenge (almost finished!) I’ve been trying to make up some of the kits I’ve acquired over the years. This is one I fell for at the Harrogate Knitting and Stitching Show last year, a … Continue reading →

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A New Name

Posted on February 4, 2025 by craftycreeky

I’d been a member of Askwith with Weston WI since I was in between babies, nearly thirty years ago. I write that in the past tense, not because it has closed or I have left, but because it has recently … Continue reading →

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