Sew Nature

Posted on September 29, 2023 by craftycreeky

I’ve started a monthly course with Sew Nature on how to use Inktense Pencils. Inktense pencils are made by Derwent which is based in Keswick. They’re watercolour pencils that you can use either on paper or on fabric. As the name suggests they can make a really intense colour.

The pencils are a bit confusing to use as the pencil lead doesn’t look anything like the final colour, when I’ve tried before I didn’t get the even effect I wanted. Hence I decided to do a course. It’s a live zoom course once a month for about 1.5 hours and a video of the lesson is put on the members page afterwards. It’s only $10 a month which works out at less than £8, pretty good value!

Laura from Sew Nature is running the course. The first part has been teaching us about butterflies and how to attract them to our gardens. She is based in the US but there are a couple of us from the UK and she is making an effort to include plants and butterflies that live over here too.

The second part of the lesson is the practical bit. The first lesson was how to use the pencils, the effect different liquids have on the pencils, water makes them bleed out, a bit like silk paints, but aloe vera gel stops them from bleeding at all. Other liquids are available too, I happen to have one called ‘no flow’, it’s interesting to play around to see how the pencils react to each liquid.

Laura is basing the course on the basic box of twelve pencils. I’ve managed to inherit a box of 36 from my mum. I’m sure I’ve also got a box of 12 somewhere of my own. I sorted out my box so the twelve were all together. She had a really good chart for us to print out onto fabric so we could see how the different colours mixed together. I haven’t quite finished mine , I’ve some more colouring to do and then the aloe vera gel to add.

Last week we had the second lesson. She provided us with a flower design. It’s actually a gaillardia, a pretty orange garden flower. Unfortunately orange was the one pencil that was missing from my box! I decided to do a purple one instead. I used two shades of purple, a dark indigo and a bit of pink too ( I have to confess that the pink went on accidently as it looks purple in the pencil! Once it was on one petal it had to go on all of them!)

I managed to get a progress photo to give you an idea of just how much the colour changes. The centre has been coloured and wettened, the petals have just been coloured…

…and this is the flower after all the petals have been wet with aloe vera and also water in the middle…

Quite a difference! I’m thinking of quilting round this to finish it, maybe adding a little machine or hand embroidery. I still want to get a more even finish, a more smooth blending, practise required I think! Next month we’re learning how to colourwash a background. I think this could look nice on the side of a tote bag when it’s finished. Next month we’re doing what looks like quite a complicated picture of a monarch butterfly on some blossom…watch this space!

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Chandelier Quilt for Lexie

Posted on September 27, 2023 by craftycreeky

I’ve fancied making a chandelier quilt for a while, so after my offer of a quilt for my great niece for her christening was accepted I downloaded the pattern free from Lella Boutique. I also watched a great tutorial on YouTube by Jenny Doan of Missouri Star. It doesn’t look too difficult. I’ve not done a quilt ‘on point’ before, but every day’s a school day!

Ages ago I bought a layer cake on a facebook destash site, it’s got lots of Hoffman batiks in pastel shades, blue, green, purple, pink, orange. There’s forty different fabrics, some only subtly different but different all the same. I decided to use it for Lexie’s Quilt. It’s pretty whilst keeping options open with colour schemes. I’ve just used an ivory cotton for the background.

I had a big cutting out session one weekend. I needed a 5″ square and two 2.5″ squares from each colour, plus one extra as I need 41 blocks altogether. I then needed lots of 2.5″ wide strips, 84 were 7″ long and 84 were 5″ long. Then there’s the triangles…it took a while!

Once I started sewing I got into a bit of a routine, stitch a few, press a few. I’ve almost finished stitching all the blocks together. I’ve put a few up on my design wall to give you (and me!) an idea of how they look.

The next job will be to decide how to arrange them. I’ve been saving images of these quilts on pinterest for a while so I know there’s lots of options…lines of colour, mixes of colour, graduations of tone…lots to think about and play with. At the moment I’m thinking of mixing all the colours up, but I also wondered about having the darker shades in the middle and the lighter towards the edges…I think I need to play with a few different layouts.

Hopefully once I sort the layout then it’ll go together fairly quickly. I have however re-thought my plan to make a quilt a month, so three quilts by Christmas…maybe it’s a tad ambitious! I was thinking of giving my two granddaughters a quilt each for Christmas, however I’ve decided to do them for birthdays instead. This means I only need to make Lexie’s quilt and one other by Christmas (Pip’s birthday is 1st January!) and I’ll make Harriet’s after Christmas. That leaves me more time for dress-making 🙂

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Lets Go Girls!

Posted on September 26, 2023 by craftycreeky

I’m off to see Shania Twain on Thursday! I’m so excited! My daughter bought us tickets for my birthday last month. It’s quite sweet too as when the kids were little, like under five, I used to put Shania on full blast, pick them up and dance round the lounge with them on my hips until we fell on the settee laughing. Just last year she happened to mention that whenever Shania tracks come on at parties etc she has to dance, she was obviously indoctrinated from a young age!

Having got over the excitement a little, I then thought, what am I going to wear! I haven’t been to a pop concert for years, and I mean years – the last time was when I saw Queen at the Knebworth Rock Festival…and yes, Freddie Mercury was just amazing!!

Having lost weight this year a lot of my clothes are too big, some others I can fit into again! I don’t have a pair of jeans at the moment but I do have a couple of denim skirts I made a few years back. All I needed was a top!

I decided to make a tied shirt type top. I eventually decided on the Saturday Skirt Set by the Friday Pattern Company. It’s a wrap top which you can either tie at the front or wrap round. It’s meant to have sleeves but I fancied a sleeveless version.

I used a madras check print which I think I bought a few years ago from Fabric Heaven. I’d actually put the fabric on a charity pile as during my last sort out I couldn’t think what to make with it! It’s quite colourful! I decided it was perfect for trying a pattern out, a wearable toille!

It went together fairly easily. I cut some bias binding to finish the arm holes, I really like the effect of the bias cut. I’m also particularly pleased how well the collar pattern matches with the back!

When I tried it on I liked it tied at the front rather than wrapped round, but it did show rather more than I wanted! I didn’t mind a tiny bit of midriff though it’s a bit more than I anticipated, but I really didn’t want most of my bra at risk too. Having pondered for a short while, I stitched a couple of button loops at the edge and found some pale yellow see-through buttons which blend in really well. It just keeps me covered enough to reax and enjoy wearing it.

We’ve got a long hot holiday coming up over Christmas, I might make myself a matching top a skirt from this pattern, it looks like it will be cool to wear in hot climes. I also think maybe the skirt in the pattern sits a little higher than my denim one which I may be a little more relaxed in!

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Monday’s Meander Round the Garden

Posted on September 25, 2023 by craftycreeky

It’s officially autumn here in the UK and it certainly feels autumnal up here in Yorkshire. It’s time to start slowly tidying the garden up for the winter. I try not to tidy too much as it’s better for wildlife if it’s left over winter, but some things need cutting back a bit.

The deep border by the fence had got very overgrown – this is how it looked for my last garden post…

Well I got in there on my hands and knees, weeding and sorting out what’s what. I dug up lots of bindweed roots which is satisfying but frustrating too, they’re big and very white so they show up once I start ferreting round, it’s just frustrating that I still have such a bindweed problem after all these years. I’ve still some work to do at the very back. I cut a few perennials back, pruned some shrubs and accidently dug up a clematis!

I still have some work to do at the back but this is what it looks like now…

The blue pot hasn’t moved, it’s just that you can see it now!

Next I think I will tackle the pond area, I’ll give it a couple more weeks though and then the hosta leaves will just fall off. I’m thinking of digging up the crocosmia as it’s just got too big and spread too much, that’s the tall strappy leaves behind Hubert the heron. I’m also wanting to halve the patch of Solomon’s Seal as it hiding the pond … or I could move it to where the crocosmia is now!!

There’s still a few flowers around in the garden, the roses are still producing a few blooms, though the weather gets to them pretty quickly. This little patch of flowers is by the top lawn but looking through from the steps as you go up. It’s a pink geranium with a shrubby clematis. Not all clematis are climbers, there is also a shrub, it’s pretty nondescript for most of the year but late summer early autumn it has spikes of blue flowers.

One plant that rarely gets a mention but just quietly flowers for months on end is this penstemon, I think it’s called apple blossom. It’s coming to the end of flowering now but it’s still got several pink spikes.

From the upstairs window the garden is still looking fairly green, just a few trees and shrubs are starting to show their autumn colours. Hopefully over the next few weeks I’ll manage to get out there and tidy things up a bit.

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A Life Unbalanced

Posted on September 24, 2023 by craftycreeky

It’s been National Balance Week this week, so I thought I’d do my bit to raise awareness of the issues those of us with balance problems face.

Balance is something we all take for granted, we don’t have to think about it in everyday life. There are three main factors which give us balance, vision, leg muscles inner ears. Take one away and we can usually cope, try standing with your eyes closed and you’re probably OK, try standing on one leg with your eyes closed and it’s not so easy.

Balance problems are often caused by inner ear issues, most people have heard or suffered from vertigo when the head spins on movement, usually lasting only a matter of days. Most people are familiar with that unpleasant feeling when you lose your balance, feel unsteady after a few too many drinks, or unsteadiness after a boat trip. Imagine living with that permanently. Meniere’s Disease causes balance issues, sometimes, like with me, the cause isn’t known and it’s just labelled as vestibular failure.

I have no balance from my ears, there are no bad days or good days, it’s just a matter of managing my issues and being aware of my limitations. As I have no balance from my ears, the other two components of balance are pretty vital. Take away vision with poor light and I’m all over the place, brilliant sunshine can do the same, at this time of year the early morning sun is low in the sky and walking towards it causes issues. Visual clues are important, I need horizons, I don’t mean wide distant views, just a linear marker so I know if I’m going off balance. ‘Horizons’ can be hidden by high hedges or even worse, crowds. I hate crowded areas as everything is moving and there’s no horizon. Sometimes building design makes an unexpected difference, there’s a posh shopping centre in Leeds which has a glossy tiled floor with a large zigzag pattern, it’s a nightmare for me to walk on.

Messages from leg muscles are affected by the terrain. Even, flat surfaces are the best for me to walk on, but rarely exist outside buildings. Footpaths can have quite steep camber and lots of uneven areas due to roadworks. I love walking in the countryside, in the Yorkshire Dales or the Lakes, but I do have to choose my route carefully and I always use walking poles. I’m actually better going straight up a hill, I like a bit of scrambling over rocky areas and as it usually involves hands as well as feet I feel alot safer. I struggle with narrow paths that follow the contour round a mountain, not helped by the thought of the consequences of falling! Very soft terrain isn’t good either, though it does make for a soft landing when I fall!

I like to have a third point of contact, particularly when I’m walking. Waliking poles obviously provide it but it might just be lightly brushing a wall with my finger tips, it doesn’t have to be all the time, it just helps. Similarly if I’m decorating up a ladder, I’ll only use one which has a bar across the top so I can rest my knee against it for that contact point.

Balance issues also cause problems with vision. As my brain doesn’t compensate for head movements, everything ‘wobbles’ when my head moves, so I can’t focus on signs for example when walking down the street. I also struggle in supermarkets as I can’t scan the shelves as I’m walking down an aisle, I have to stop to look. It can be tiring having to concentrate all the time on the little things like this.

Other things can have unexpected consequences on my balance, I started some new painkillers earlier this year which instead of just taking at night time, I had to take 3 times a day. It took a while to realise that this was probably why I suddenly had a lot more falls, I’m used to falling out in the countryside, not whilst getting off a bus!! I reduced the day time dose and changed the times I took them and the falls stopped.

Having said all that, I cope, on the whole it’s manageable. I get on with a pretty full and active life, I know my limitations and on the whole I don’t push them. There’s much worse problems to have than this!

If you’ve managed to get through all this, thank you! If you would like more information there’s lots on the VEDA website

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Owl and Hollow HQAL

Posted on September 17, 2023 by craftycreeky

I didn’t think I’d get so much done over these three weeks as I knew I wanted to concentrate on finishing my garden embroidery, however when we went away for a couple of nights the light in the evening wasn’t good enough for that so I stitched the simpler Owl and Hare Hollow blocks instead. This is a quilt designed by Natalie Bird of Birdhouse Quilts in Australia, it’s being released in the Homespun magasine over six issues. The fourth magasine dropped through my letterbox yesterday so I’m about halfway, I say ‘about’ as I’ve not quite finished the ones in the last magasine, I’m getting there though.

Three weeks ago I’d finished the Queen Bee embroidery and just started the next one. I’d made seemingly lots of hexagons to go round them…

Each embroidered block takes nineteen hexagons, it’s meant to be twenty but I can’t fit twenty in the seven inch circle, I gave up trying on block two! I tack them round first then sew the outer edges, then the inner edges, I find this much quicker and easier then sewing one hexagon at a time. I’m trying to do all the blocks in pretty much the same fabrics to get some continuity, it also saves me having to think every time about how the colours and patterns work together. It took long enough to decide which fabric to use for the inner circle!

I cracked on and stitched the next embroidery too. This one has a lovely circle of foliage round the outside which I did in a variegated green. It then has a colourful flower barrow. I enjoyed stitching this one. Last night I finally finished the circle of hexagons.

The next embroidered block was the first one I really wasn’t so keen on. It has a lovely border of leafy branches again but it then had a pair of dressed foxes which somehow looked a little sinister to me!! I decided to change it and found this delightful embroidery pattern from The Embroidery Place on Etsy. One great feature was that you could print it to fit different sized hoops, I think it went from 3″ to 7″. I used the 4″ size and nestled the deer down in the leafy glade. I love this one and think it fits in well with the other embroideries. I just need to stitch the circle of hexagons on.

My pile of hexagons is going down fast, I think I need another mass production line again! I’ve been making even smaller ones over the last couple of days, each side measures 3/8″. I’ve to make six hexie flowers for each block, two blocks in total. I worked out that means I need to make 84 little hexies!! Another block uses the slightly larger hexies to make a single flower. These are the half inch ones, so only 1/8″ bigger on each side so it amazes me how much bigger the final flower comes out…

I’m making three forget-me-not flowers, I haven’t decided yet whether the other three will be the same three blue prints, some lighter blue prints or pink ones.

I’ve also made an applique owl. I’ve used bondaweb rather then needleturn applique and then just back-stitched round. The eyes are meant to be satin stitched but I’m quite tempted to use these tiny buttons which are the perfect size. He’ll have an appliqued circle of arcs round him like the hare I made earlier.

I’ve prepped a load of 2″ squares too for four blocks which take twenty five each, so they are ready to be stitched into a chequerboard once I get a couple of hours free on my sewing machine. Hopefully over the next three weeks I’ll finish all the blocks in the third magazine so I’ll officially be half way.

Hand Quilt Along Links

This Hand Quilt Along is an opportunity for hand quilters and piecers to share and motivate one another. We post every three weeks, to show our progress and encourage one another.  If you have a hand quilting project and would like to join our group contact Kathy at the link below.

Kathy, Margaret, Deb, Nanette, Sharon, Karrin, Daisy, and Connie

I’ll also be linking up with Kathy’s Quilts for Slow Stitching Sunday, please follow the links to see what everyone has been stitching.

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Stitching my Garden SAL

Posted on September 10, 2023 by craftycreeky

I’m managing to get a few projects finished at the moment and today is time for another happy dance as I’ve managed to finish my last big garden embroidery for my embroidered garden fabric book. I wanted to finish it by the end of August, anticipating a couple of evenings stitching whilst we were away at the end of August, but the light wasn’t good enough, so last night as I watched (and sang along to!) the Last Night of the Proms I set to and got it finished.

Three weeks ago I was working on the left hand side of the Amber and Amethyst garden…

I stitched the bigger plants first such as the Golden Celebrations rose and the peony. I then made the two green circles into a pieris bush and a geum I filled in with veronica, pulmonaria, bluebells, crocosmia, sedum (that purple spodge in the middle!) echinacea and wallflowers.

It surprises me in a way, just how many flowers you can portray from so few types of stitches, the bulk of the flowers are French knots, of various sizes and some with stem stitch surrounds, they make roses, peony, bluebells, crocosmia, buddleia, veronica, pulmonaria… Chain stitch is also well used with clematis, foxgloves, leaves. Other stitches used are fly stitch (iris), straight stitch (geums, geraniums and echinacea) feather stitch, back stitch and straight stitch for stems.

This is the area of the garden I am portraying…

I’m really pleased with how it’s come out, a fair portrayal I think! I decided against adding the table and chairs as it would have been too difficult to get the angles right. This is where we sit on an afternoon or evening to catch the rays, with a cup of tea or a glass of wine.

I still have a couple of less detailed embroideries to do for my book but it’s going on the back burner until after Christmas (probably) as I need to make a birth sampler for my grandson for Christmas. Here’s the three main garden embroideries…

Here’s a little collage of some of the other pages…

This stitch-a-long is organised by Avis from stitching by the sea, we all post our progress on our chosen piece every three weeks, please follow the links to see what everyone else has been stitching.

Avis, Claire, Gun, Christina, Kathy, Margaret, 

Heidi, Jackie, Sunny, Megan, Deborah, Sharon, 

Daisy, Cathie, Linda, Helen, Cindy, MaryMargaret

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Coming Home Quilt

Posted on September 7, 2023 by craftycreeky

It’s happy dance time as I have finally finished my Coming Home quilt! I started this quilt back in January 2019, a looong time ago! It was a block of the month quilt by Sarah Fielke, it’s the second Sarah Fielke quilt I’ve made, the first one being the Down the Rabbit Hole quilt….

…as you can see that was a pretty big quilt, it lives on our bed, I still love it.

Sarah’s quilts usually have a fair amount of needle-turn applique, that’s actually one reason why I first decided to make the Down the Rabbit Hole one, I wanted to learn how to do it properly. I also like the medallion style design of these quilts.

As soon as I heard about the Coming Home quilt, I wanted to make it, I particularly liked the border of houses on the DTRH quilt, so a quilt full of houses sounded pretty good to me. I chose a palette of teal, blue and peach mainly, started off with fabrics from my stash which I then added to.

I thoroughly enjoyed making the Coming Home quilt, even if there were an awful lot of windows to stitch! I changed the outer border, partly because it looked a bit too busy for me, and partly because I didn’t want quite such a big quilt. This one is about 80″ square, which is big enough for us.

It was still too big for me to comfortably quilt on my domestic sewing machine, particularly as I didn’t just want an all over design. There aren’t many long arm quilters here in the UK that are prepared to custom quilt, I eventually found Althea of Harrogate Quilting Studio who agreed to do what I would call a semi custom quilting. She used a lovely leafy design for the middle, a feather border for the wide house border and a twirl within each triangle on the outer border

I’m really pleased with the quilting, I’m so glad I persuaded Althea to quilt it, it was somewhat out of her comfort zone but she did a wonderful job. It’s not easy to photograph the quilting but you can just make out the different areas on this photo of the quilt from the back…

I bound it with a lovely soft, dark blue fabric by Lewis and Irene, it blends in perfectly. I hand stitched the binding on which took a couple of evenings but I think the finish is worth it on a special quilt.

All that was left was a label. I decided to embroider the quilt details directly onto the back of the quilt, I usually do it this way, I like using an element of the quilting to stitch the label on. This time I used the fan shape on one of the corners, I kept it simple with just the quilt name, my initials and the date I finished it. I used light grey embroidery thread and chain stitch.

I’ve just decorated our spare bedroom and it looks rather nice in there. I still need to paint the chests of drawers though in case you’re wondering 🙂

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Dog Roses Quilt

Posted on September 1, 2023 by craftycreeky

I’ve just had a couple of days off work trying to get on top of a cough and cold virus, rather than just sitting around doing nothing I decided to do a bit of sewing.

Earlier this year I finished the top of my Secret Garden quilt, this was a block of the month kit from Raggedy Ruff designs. I’ve done several of her designs now, I love the detail and the style of her designs. Although this one isn’t very big (about 26″ square) it’s the busiest one I’ve done so far. I personalised the design slightly by swapping the cat sitting in the garden for our three dogs walking through it. I love the fact that all the birds portrayed have visited our garden, some regularly and some very occasionally. Here’s my finished top…

My next dilemma was how to quilt it. I put it up on my design wall, hoping for inspiration. Whatever idea I had, I could see issues, whether it was quilting round major blocks such as birds and roses, weaving a vine round the border or a meander round the background. Andrea, the designer had quilted hers pretty heavily with a background pattern, but for one thing, she’s a much better quilter than me.

As a last minute thought, I took it with me when I went to collect my Coming Home quilt from Althea, the long-arm quilter at the Harrogate Quilting Studio. I showed her the quilt and asked her advice. Without hesitation she said cross-hatch, anything else would distract from the applique and embroidery. I could see where she was coming from.

I decided to take her advice and tackle it whilst I was at home with a bug. I wasn’t sure how big a cross-hatching to do, I started by drawing it on with a Frixion pen. These are heat erasable pens which as many people are keen to point out, they’re not designed for fabric. Personally I’ve never had a problem with them not disappearing or with them reappearing in the cold, I usually use them pretty lightly, just marking with dots or dashes. With this quilt being so busy I did just draw the lines.

I was originally planning to do the cross-hatch based around the star in the middle of the sky but having stitched every other line to start with, I found that Zach, my little black dog, was nicely framed in a square. I decided that was enough quilting.

I found some batik in my stash which was left over from one of the first quilts I made, it has a soft green background with large pinky-purple flowers, it matched with the quilt beautifully. I also added two triangles at the top corners to use with a hanger. I hand-stitched the binding down, catching in the triangles at the same time.

All that was left was a label with the name and the date. I decided to call the quilt Dog Roses as it includes our dogs, one of whom is called Rosie, and some of the flowers look like dog roses.

I hung it on the wall straight away. I chose this spot for it as soon as I started making it, it’s just the right size and I think it looks great at the bottom of the stairs. So far I’ve not found myself putting a hand out there either, so hopefully it won’t get grubby.

I need to finish the Winter Wreath quilt next which has the beautiful barn owl (see below) as it’s centrepiece, but that will wait until next year as I’ve a few simpler quilts to make as presents first.

If you fancy trying some of the beautiful designs from Raggedy Ruff, she has a sale on, I think all pdf patterns are half price until Monday. They’re not all complex like this one, there’s some very pretty simpler designs too. She has also started printing panels of her original watercolour designs which are great if you don’t fancy the applique, I’ve just bought two for my sewing room as they have mice and squirrels making quilts or sewing. Here’s a few of the Raggedy Ruff designs I’ve made over the last few years…

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Wednesday’s Wander Round the Garden

Posted on August 30, 2023 by craftycreeky

I’m a bit behind with my posts at the moment, various reasons, sometimes life just gets in the way!

We had a couple of days away this weekend and when I came back, a lily had come into flower. It’s one I got at the Harrogate show this year, I think they’re called rose lilies as they have so many petals. I was beginning to wonder when it was going to flower, August/September is pretty late for a lily and it’s had buds for weeks. Anyway it was worth the wait, isn’t it gorgeous…

It’s in a pot at the moment, but I’m tempted to plant this one in a border as they don’t seem to last long in pots and this one is so pretty.

Just nearby to the big showy lilies is this little pot of violas, easy to miss but worth a peek. I gave them a good trim a few weeks back as they were looking very straggly and they’ve rewarded me with a few more flowers. It’s quite a shady spot but I’ve managed to get plenty of interest with different foliage and textures. The fern is self-seeded in the gravel, there’s a geranium and a diascia on the left. you can just see a cream hydrangea flower at the back, and a little azalea next to it.

The choisya shrub was pruned lightly after flowering in the spring, and that has also put on a second flush of flowers. The miniature cherry is turning a lovely shade of red, though it seems a bit early for autumn colour!

I did a lot of dead-heading a couple of weeks ago, especially roses, long overdue I have to admit, but a few are still flowering. This one is called Golden Celebration, it’s in the Amber and Amethyst garden, the flowers are a gorgeous coppery orange colour, my daughter bought me this one in memory of Rosie, our beautiful golden retriever.

The border by the big fence is in dire need of a hard cut back, I started with the dead heading last week but I really need to start sorting this area out properly as I’m sure there are shrubs getting swamped by bigger ones under there. It doesn’t help that everything has grown so much that it’s hard to get in to do stuff!

I’ve not managed to get out in the garden much this summer, whenever I’ve been free it’s been raining – we’ve had a very wet summer here in Yorkshire!I think I’ll be starting the autumn tidy-up early! I’ve already been making a mental list of plants that need dividing or moving, so I think I’ll be pretty busy.

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