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Category Archives: Serendipity
Feel the Sunshine and Do a Happy Dance!
Yes it’s happy dance time again, I have just finished my Kaffe Fassett quilt, just nice time for the wedding in March. It’s taken me about three weeks in total to make it, so it’s a pretty quick pattern to … Continue reading
Posted in Quilting, Serendipity
Tagged Feel the sunshine, Kaffe Fassett, Quilting, Radiant Quilt
52 Comments
Domesticity in Stitches
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
Posted in embroidery, Serendipity, TAST, The Travelling Sketchbook
Tagged embroidery, Jenny of Elefanz, TAST, Travelling Sketchbook
26 Comments
Tall Year Square Etui SAL 2
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
Posted in embroidery, Serendipity, Stitch-a-long
Tagged cross-stitch, embroidery, Tall Year Square
25 Comments
Dancing in the Sunshine
It’s nearly time for a happy dance with my sunshine quilt, nearly, but not quite… This is a quilt I’m making as a wedding present, the wedding is in March in Sydney, so I’ve got a deadline to work against, … Continue reading
Friday Photo Challenge
This week the photo theme set by Postcard from Gibraltar is Wall Art. I have rather a lot of pictures on my walls, both embroideries I’ve stitched over the years, photographs or pictures I’ve bought or been given. As I … Continue reading
Posted in Home, Photo Challenge, Serendipity
Tagged #postcardfromgibfridayphoto, Gallery walls
9 Comments
Sunshine Quilt
I’ve temporarily called my Kaffe Fassett quilt my Sunshine quilt, just because it’s so bright with it’s hot colours. The name might stick, or I might change it, as it’s a wedding present I quite fancy a name that denotes … Continue reading
Warm
Wild Daffodil is hosting a monthly photo challenge on a one word theme. We post on the first Tuesday of each month. This month’s word is warm , certainly not what I’m feeling at the moment with the temperature outside hovering … Continue reading
Posted in Serendipity
7 Comments
Running Away with Running Stitch
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
Posted in embroidery, Serendipity, TAST, Textile Books
Tagged Beyond TAST, Running stitch, stitch sampler, Take a Stitch Tuesday
24 Comments
Friday Photo Challenge
The theme of the photo challenge is set by Postcard from Gibraltar, this week it is green, a nice easy theme, but still not easy to pin it down to one photograph! One thing I love about living where we do … Continue reading
Posted in Garden, Photo Challenge, Serendipity
Tagged #postcardfromgibfridayphoto, Spring garden
5 Comments
Eighteen for 18
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
Posted in Dressmaking, Eighteen for 18, embroidery, Garden, Serendipity
14 Comments


