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Tag Archives: Christmas
All the Trimmings
I’ve been pretty busy in my sewing room this week, just not with things ready to share, however I have started quilting my All the Trimmings quilt. This was a free QAL from the Fat Quarter Shop, it just took … Continue reading
Posted in Quilt-a-long, Quilting
Tagged All the Trimmings QAL, Christmas, machine quilting, Quilting
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All the Trimmings QAL
Having dilly-dallied a bit with this quilt I cracked on with it this week, this is the free QAL by the Fat Quarter Shop, it appealed (apart from the fact that I love Christmas!) because it took just one layer … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Quilt-a-long, Quilting, Serendipity
Tagged All the Trimmings QAL, Christmas, Quilting, The Fat Quarter shop
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Christmas QAL
Last month I started a quilt-a-long – another one! This is just a short free one from the Fat Quarter Shop. It’s called All the Trimmings. It appealed partly because I’m a sucker for Christmas stuff, but also because it … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Quilt-a-long, Quilting
Tagged All the Trimmings QAL, Christmas, Quilting, The Fat Quarter shop
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All the Trimmings QAL
I’ve started another mystery quilt-a-long…I know, I’ve enough QAL’s and SAL’s to sink a ship! There’s method in my madness though! A couple of years ago I bought a Christmas fabric layer cake on one of the facebook destash pages. … Continue reading
Believe
I’m on a bit of a roll at the moment, finishing various projects. In the autumn I stitched a Dimensions cross-stitch kit called Believe, the stitched border was like a patchwork quilt, at the time I was mulling over how … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, embroidery, Home
Tagged Believe, Christmas, Dimensions kit, patchwork
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Advent Rings
For me the first Sunday in Advent heralds the beginning of Christmas, we usually have an Advent candle, when the children were little we had Advent story books and we’ve always had an Advent ring. An Advent ring has four … Continue reading
It’s beginning to smell a lot like Christmas
For many years I’ve decorated gingerbread houses for Christmas. It started when the children were small, I bought them flat packed from Ikea and decorated them with sweets and icing. I started making them for friends until I was decorating … Continue reading
Christmas HQAL
It’s three weeks since I last shared my new hand quilting project, a Christmas runner with 24 embroidered squares. The embroideries were a surprise SAL from Hugs’n’kisses before Christmas,their suggestion was to use them for an Advent calendar, we don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, embroidery, Quilt-a-long, Quilting
Tagged Christmas, embroidery, Hand-quilting, redwork
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Christmas Stitching
Towards the end of November I saw a mystery Christmas stitch-a-long advertised. It was a freebie by Hugs and kisses, it was only for Advent, so I wouldn’t be committing myself to a long project, and a little bit of … Continue reading
Giving and Receiving
From being very young I always tried to instill into my children the idea that handmade gifts were treasured, they always made presents for Grandparents and aunts etc, it might be a tray of mince pies, or a decorated matchbox. … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Crafts, embroidery, Quilting, Serendipity
Tagged Christmas, cross-stitch, Handmade gift, Soldier
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