Category Archives: Stitch-a-long

Butterfly Alphabet SAL

Apologies for being so quiet on here, our building work still isn’t finished, though yesterday we had our first bath and cooked a roast dinner in the new oven…so things are moving forward! Any spare time I have had has … Continue reading

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Butterfly Alphabet SAL

Happy Easter everyone! We had a family meal yesterday, so today was spent undercoating and gloss painting in the kitchen before the units go in. I hate gloss painting, probably because I don’t think I’m very good at it, but … Continue reading

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Owl and Hare Hollow HQAL

Over the last few days I’ve been painting our new kitchen diner so it feels like we’ve made progress even though we still have no kitchen or downstairs bathroom, I’ve managed a little quilting in the evenings on my Owl … Continue reading

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Butterfly Alphabet SAL

Where did the last three weeks go, probably in a blur of wall paper stripping and now painting! I have made a bit of progress, but not a lot! Happy Mothers Day to mums all over the world, I’ve spent … Continue reading

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Bobbin Along

I’m so far behind with both reading and writing blogs, we’re having the kitchen and dining room knocked into one and a bathroom redesigned at the same time…seemed a good idea at the time!! We currently have no kitchen and … Continue reading

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Butterfly Alphabet

It’s chaos at home at the moment, chaotic and very dusty! This week builders have started on our kitchen/dining room so walls have been knocked down, steel joists put up…you get the picture! The dust gets everywhere!! I know I’ve … Continue reading

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Butterfly Alphabet

Having finished my Bee book I have just this week started a new project. It’s a kit that’s been in my stash for some time, gradually creeping up the to do list, I’m pretty sure I bought it for about … Continue reading

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Two Words

I caught up with the Anne Brooke Bobbin Along challenge last night. Each week she adds a little more stitching to a piece to represent a word, we’ve had layers, rolls. hummock…and a couple of weeks ago it was wrinkle. … Continue reading

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Dancing Bees

When bees find a good source of nectar, they do a dance to show the other bees where it is, so having finally finished my bee book, I’m doing my happy bee dance! Three weeks ago I’d stitched the pages … Continue reading

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Bobbin Along SAL

This year I’ve decided to join in with two of Anne Brooke’s SAL’s, Bobbin Along which is a weekly one and What’s Sewing which is a monthly one. Anne Brooke is a lovely lady who lives not too far away … Continue reading

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