Category Archives: Garden

A Barn Owl in the Garden

Posted on September 26, 2022 by craftycreeky

I have a bit of a thing about barn owls, they’re beautiful birds and it’s quite a magical experience when you see one. I was once driving home in the dark along a country lane and as I turned a … Continue reading →

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Stitching my Garden SAL

Posted on September 18, 2022 by craftycreeky

I’m still making reasonable progress on my stitching of the patio area of our garden, this is going to be part of a textile book about our garden. This whole idea has been inspired by an excellent on-line course called … Continue reading →

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Monday’s Meander Round the Garden

Posted on September 12, 2022 by craftycreeky

Having decided not to move house I thought I’d better start the autumn tidy up! I’ve found a gardener to help me too, an old nursing friend called Sally has been doing gardening for many years, she’s going to come … Continue reading →

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Tuesday’s Totter Round the Garden

Posted on August 30, 2022 by craftycreeky

Our house sale fell through a couple of weeks ago when the buyers backed out, we therefore had to back out of the house purchase, fortunately it was just a couple of days after agreeing a price so we hadn’t … Continue reading →

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Stitch-a-Garden SAL

Posted on August 28, 2022 by craftycreeky

My garden stitching is coming along nicely, I think before I had a bit of white page syndrome, worrying about how it was going to come out so actually stitching not much at all. Now I’ve got started and it’s … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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Stitch a garden SAL

Posted on July 17, 2022 by craftycreeky

I have finally made some progress with my garden SAL. This is a course by Nicki from the Stitchery, she’s been giving lots of ideas on how to represent trees, flowers and structures etc. I’m making mine into a book … Continue reading →

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Flowers for a Wedding

Posted on June 10, 2022 by craftycreeky

At home flower arranging tends to stretch to plonking in a vase and that’s about it, luckily I quite like the plonked in a vase look! I think I may have been on a couple of workshops on Christmas table … Continue reading →

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Mondays Meander Round the Garden

Posted on May 16, 2022 by craftycreeky

Tidying up the garden continues, we’ve had a very mixed bag of weather with gloriously warm days and days like today when it rained heavily for a lot of the day, this means everything is growing fast, weeds included! Over … Continue reading →

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