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Category Archives: Stitch-a-long
Stitch my Garden SAL
I’ve had a particularly busy couple of weeks, culminating with a few days away visiting various friends and family this week. As a result I’ve not managed to start stitching my book together. I have put the pages in some … Continue reading
Stitching my Garden SAL
I’ve just finished what I hope is the last page for my embroidered garden book. I say ‘hope’ as I haven’t arranged the pages in order yet and there’s one more page that might be needed. I decided last month … Continue reading
Posted in cross-stitch, embroidery, Serendipity, Stitch-a-long, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books
Tagged embroidery, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books
13 Comments
Stitching my Garden SAL
I’ve been quite productive over the last three weeks with my embroidered garden book, I think now I’m nearing the end I just want to wrap it up. I’ve been stitching what I call filler pages, not a huge amount … Continue reading
Stitching my Garden SAL
Well I never did find the original design for this final piece for my garden book, it’ll turn up one day…in the meantime I redrew the map of our garden. I used Google maps as a basis of relative sizes … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Garden, Stitch-a-long, Stitching my Garden
Tagged embroidery, stitching maps, Stitching my Garden
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Owl and Hare Hollow HQAL
Well I’ve made some progress on this quilt, not as much as I would have liked, but progress is progress! Three weeks ago I had the basic blocks made for four more pieced blocks, they ‘just’ needed finishing… …well turning … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Owl and Hare Hollow BOM, Quilt-a-long, Quilting, Stitch-a-long
Tagged embroidery, English Paper Piecing, Owl and Hare Hollow BOM, Quilt, Quilting, quilts, sewing
12 Comments
Stitching my Garden SAL
Three weeks ago I was full of plans for one of the last pages for my garden book. I’d mapped it out a few months ago with the help of google maps and put it somewhere safe…and guess what, I … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Garden, Stitch-a-long, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books
Tagged embroidery, rosa Claire Austin, Stitching my Garden
16 Comments
Stitching my Garden SAL
Well we finally returned home yesterday after nearly four weeks away, visiting family in Sydney and then cruising round New Zealand. We had a fabulous time, but after over 30 hours travelling to get home, I’m feeling somewhat jetlagged, hopefully … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Garden, Stitch-a-long, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books
Tagged embroidery, Stitch a garden, textile book
22 Comments
Peter Rabbit Birth Sampler
I’ve got my happy dancing shoes on today as I’ve managed to finish the Peter Rabbit birth sampler comfortably in time to have it framed for Christmas! Three weeks ago I had just started Jeremy Fisher… I soon had Jeremy … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Stitch-a-long, cross-stitch, grandchildren
Tagged Birth Samper, cross-stitch, Peter Rabbit, stitching
23 Comments
Peter Rabbit SAL
I’ve been busy, busy, busy over the last couple of weeks making clothes for a fast approaching holiday, so busy I’ve not got round to posting about them! Luckily I have had time in the evenings to work on my … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Stitch-a-long, cross-stitch
Tagged birth sampler, cross-stitch, Peter Rabbit
28 Comments
Owl and Hare Hollow HQAL
Last time I shared my progress on the Owl and Hare Hollow quilt I seemed to have lots of half done or not quite finished blocks, so I’ve been concentrating on those. This was helped by the fact that I’m … Continue reading