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Category Archives: Stitching my Garden
David Austin Roses
I’ve got rather a lot of David Austin roses in my garden, at a rough estimate I’ve probably got about thirty different roses and about fifty actual rose bushes. David Austin was I think the first rose breeder to mix … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Garden, Serendipity, Stitching my Garden
Tagged David Austin Roses, embroidery, Stitching my Garden
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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
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Stitching Roses
I have two standard rose trees in my garden, a creamy white one called Claire Austin and an apricot one called Roald Dahl, they’re gorgeous! When I started thinking about my stitched garden book I wanted to include a little … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books
Tagged embroidery, standard roses, Stitching my Garden
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Stitching Flowers
Over the weekend I concentrated on finishing my flower sampler, this is for my textile book about the garden. I’ve been doing an on-line course with Nicki Franklyn frm the stitchery called Stitch-a-Garden and this sampler is one of the … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books, Workshops
Tagged embroidery, flower sampler, Stitching my Garden
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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
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Stitch-a-Garden
As part of the stitch-a-garden course Nicki Franklyn from The Stitchery has included little samplers of how to stitch different parts of the garden. I stitched a tree and shrub sampler earlier in the course… It’s useful to see different … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Stitching my Garden, Workshops
Tagged flower embroidery, Stitching my Garden
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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
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Garden Stitching
I’ve been busy stitching over the last week, just haven’t quite got round to writing about it. I’ve stitched another couple of little embroideries for my garden book. These are both from the mystery bundle I bought from Soukie Soo, … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Garden, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books
Tagged embroidery, SoukieSoo, Stitching my Garden
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Stitching a Treasure Bundle
I seem to be doing a lot of embroidery at the moment, lots of little ones which don’t take long but are lovely to stitch…and they’ll go in my garden textile book. These ones are from a ‘Treasure Bundle’ I … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books
Tagged embroidery, lilac, Sookie Soo, Stitch a garden
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