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Category Archives: Stitch-a-long
Stitch a Garden SAL
Well I have my dancing shoes on! Last night I finished – ish my stitched patio garden for my fabric book about my garden. I say -ish as I might just put a few more stitches on it…might! This is … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Garden, Stitch-a-long, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books, Workshops
Tagged embroidery, Stitching my Garden, The Stitchery
21 Comments
Stitching my Garden SAL
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
Posted in embroidery, Garden, Serendipity, Stitch-a-long, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books
Tagged embroidery, Stitching my Garden
20 Comments
Stitch-a-Garden SAL
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
Posted in embroidery, Garden, Stitch-a-long, Stitching my Garden, Workshops
Tagged embroidery, Stitching my Garden, The Stitchery
12 Comments
Merging Workshops
We’ve had a busy couple of weeks here, hence very few posts! Our house sale has fallen through as our buyers pulled out, luckily before we had incurred costs for purchasing the one we wanted! Other countries seem to have … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Stitch-a-long, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books, Workshops
Tagged cartography, embroidery, Stitch a garden, Yorkshire Dales
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Stitch-a-Garden SAL
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
Posted in embroidery, Garden, Stitch-a-long, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books, Workshops
Tagged embroidery, Stitching my Garden, The Stitchery
10 Comments
Textile Book SAL
Well my stitch-a-garden project has had to take a back seat over the last three weeks, what with trying to finish the cot quilt before Hugo was born, trying to sell the house and the worry since the little one … Continue reading
Posted in cross-stitch, Serendipity, Stitch-a-long, Textile Books
Tagged bumble bees, cross-stitch
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Stitch a Garden SAL
I’m way behind with both reading and writing posts as there’s a lot going on at home at the moment, I’ve had a few medical tests which although they were all as out-patient, it still takes up a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Stitch-a-long, Stitching my Garden
Tagged embroidery, garden, patio, Stitching my Garden
21 Comments
Seaside Quilt HQAL
I was hoping to have my dancing shoes on today with a finished quilt, but I’m not quite there! This is the seaside quilt designed by Kathryn Whittingham , it’s in the book called The Seaside Quilt. Three weeks ago … Continue reading
Stitch a Garden SAL
One of my bigger projects (time wise!) is a textile book of our garden. Nicky from The Stitchery is running a SAL with videos and instructions on how to stitch a garden, it’s meant to be a picture but as … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Garden, Serendipity, Stitch-a-long, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books
Tagged embroidery, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books
9 Comments
The Seaside Quilt HQAL
I’m making good progress with hand-quilting my seaside quilt. Three weeks ago when I last shared this happy quilt I was busy stitching clam shells (or waves!) on the main body of the quilt… The central design of the quilt … Continue reading


