Category Archives: embroidery

A Tall Year Square Etui SAL 3

Posted on March 4, 2018 by craftycreeky

It’s three weeks since I last showed you my etui, it’s rather pretty, it’s a pattern by Betsy Morgan from a Classic Inspirations magasine and each side is a different season. I’m choosing my own threads so I just picked … Continue reading →

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A Not So Small Heart!

Posted on February 28, 2018 by craftycreeky

It’s our wedding anniversary whilst we are away, last year I made a cross-stitch card, this year I decided to do the same but to make it in such a way that I could make it into a ‘small’ afterwards, … Continue reading →

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Three Smalls and a Shortlist!

Posted on February 21, 2018 by craftycreeky

Somehow or other  I seem to have ended up with three little cross-stitch projects on the go, which is a lot, even for me! Last month I stitched ‘January’ from the Joyful World series by Maja Matyas, I think it’s … Continue reading →

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Domesticity in Stitches

Posted on February 14, 2018 by craftycreeky

It’s our Embroiderers Guild meeting on Monday and as I’m away for the weekend in London I thought yesterday I’d better crack on with my Travelling Sketchbook entry. It’s the final swap of these travels, I get my own book … Continue reading →

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Tall Year Square Etui SAL 2

Posted on February 11, 2018 by craftycreeky

It’s three weeks since I last showed my Tall Year Square Etui, it’s a pattern by Betsy Morgan from issue 93 of Classic Inspirations. This is where I was three weeks ago…I must admit over recent weeks I’ve been concentrating … Continue reading →

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Running Away with Running Stitch

Posted on February 3, 2018 by craftycreeky

Well who would have thought I could stitch a whole page just on running stitch, that simple little stitch I learnt on binca as a three year old! Like many simple things in life, I think it’s simplicity makes it … Continue reading →

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Eighteen for 18

Posted on February 1, 2018 by craftycreeky

It’s the first day of February already, so how have I done in the first month of my Eighteen for 18 challenge… 1 Etsy store opened; Nothing done but have been thinking!! 2 Tutorials; None as yet. 3 Sessions a … Continue reading →

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Two January Smalls

Posted on January 31, 2018 by craftycreeky

At the eleventh hour I’ve just completed two little cross-stitch smalls for January! I finished piecing the centre of my Kaffe Fassett quilt this afternoon and having decided I really didn’t have enough scraps to make a piano key border, … Continue reading →

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A January Small

Posted on January 27, 2018 by craftycreeky

Last year on pinterest I saw a collection of little cross-stitch designs, one for each month of the year. They were very pretty and I eventually traced them back to the Snowflower Diaries the designer is Maja Matyas. The series … Continue reading →

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Tall Year Square Etui SAL 1

Posted on January 21, 2018 by craftycreeky

Last year I happened to see a photograph of a beautiful embroidered etui box, I traced it back to a Classic Inspirations magasine so I ordered it immediately. My mum used to get Classic Inspirations years ago, they are an Australian … Continue reading →

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