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Category Archives: Serendipity
Friday Photo Challenge
This weeks photo challenge is taking a bit more thinking. The themes are set by Postcard form Gibraltar and this week the word is line. I started flicking back through my photos… My quilting lines are getting better, practice makes … Continue reading
Posted in Photo Challenge, Serendipity
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One Stitch at a Time
This is a cross-stitch I started on holiday in March, finished in mid April and it’s been sitting, patiently waiting to be made up ever since. I finally got round to it over the last couple of days. The design … Continue reading
Eighteen for 18 Update
May has flown by and has been a pretty busy month, I painted Mum’s house, baked cakes for Askwith Show, stitched for three days in Grassington as well as all the usual stuff like gardening, sewing etc. So how have … Continue reading
Posted in Eighteen for 18, embroidery, Quilting, Serendipity, Sewing
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Monday’s Meander Round the Garden
It smells lovely as we open the back door at the moment, a philadelphus is in full flower and the scent fills the air, it’s quite a heady scent, it’s other name is mock orange blossom. This is the golden … Continue reading
Hand Quilt a long 2
It’s three weeks since I last showed my hand quilting project. This is just a little practise one before I get my Down the Rabbit Hole quilt back from being basted. I was hoping my quilt would be back by … Continue reading
Two for one!
Today you have a double whammy of photo challenges as not only is it Friday, it’s also the beginning of June so it time for the monthly photo challenge from Wild Daffodil as well as the Friday Photo Challenge from … Continue reading
Posted in Serendipity
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Bertie the Blackbird
I’ve nicknamed my blackbird Bertie, as “my embroidered blackbird in the style of William Morris” is getting a bit of a mouthful! It was nearly Bill as I did think it could be a nod to William Morris,but he really … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Serendipity
Tagged Embroidered Blackbird, Embroiderers Guild, embroidery, Nicola Jarvis, Stitching in the Dales
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Monday’s Meander Round the Garden
We’ve had a little bit of rain this week (that’s because I finally got round to buying a hosepipe!) and everything seems to have shot up another 6 inches. The garden is really filling out now and colour is popping … Continue reading
Tall Year Square Etui – SAL 7
It’s three weeks since I last showed you my etui box, It’s a pattern in Classic Inspirations by Betsy Morgan and each side represents a different season. I’m working on summer at the moment. This is where I was three … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Serendipity, Stitch-a-long
Tagged Betsy Morgan, cross-stitch, Tall Year Square
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Blackwell House
Once a year my Embroiderers Guild has a day out instead of our monthly meeting, so on Monday we travelled by coach to visit Blackwell House which is situated near Windermere in the Lake District. This meant we had a … Continue reading


