-
Join 1,333 other subscribers
Blog Stats
- 563,569 hits
Categories
- 2020 Vision (4)
- Anne Brooke SAL (3)
- Baking (3)
- balance (2)
- Books (21)
- Christmas (100)
- Coming Home Quilt (22)
- Crafts (230)
- Crochet (6)
- cross-stitch (79)
- Down The Rabbit Hole (43)
- Dressmaking (170)
- Eighteen for 18 (13)
- embroidery (651)
- F2F (9)
- Fabric shops (32)
- Garden (240)
- grandchildren (17)
- Home (40)
- kits (36)
- Luna Lapin (18)
- Machine embroidery (11)
- My Monthly Challenge (12)
- Nineteen for 19 (14)
- Owl and Hare Hollow BOM (36)
- Peppermint Purple 2021 SAL (7)
- Photo Challenge (63)
- Poem of the month (8)
- Postcards from the Hedge (2)
- Quilt-a-long (178)
- Quilting (380)
- Raggedy Ruff Designs (14)
- Serendipity (894)
- Sewing (242)
- Sewing for Grandchildren (14)
- sewing room (23)
- Skipton Stitchers (30)
- Smalls of the Month (44)
- Splendid Sampler Quilt (40)
- Stitch-a-long (261)
- Stitching my Garden (44)
- TAST (12)
- Textile Books (158)
- The Dales 30 (5)
- The Dales 30 (1)
- The Stitchbook Collective (16)
- The Travelling Sketchbook (33)
- Tutorials (2)
- Walking (67)
- Wedding (14)
- Women's Institute (9)
- Workshops (41)
- Yorkshire (8)
Archives
Tags
- #downtherabbithole
- applique
- Catbells
- Christmas
- clematis
- Crafts
- cross-stitch
- Cross-stitch smalls
- Down The Rabbit Hole
- dress-making
- Dressmaking
- embroidery
- Fabric Books
- Faby Reilly Designs
- garden
- Hand-quilting
- Owl and Hare Hollow BOM
- Quilt
- Quilting
- Raggedy Ruff Designs
- sewing
- Spring garden
- Stitching my Garden
- textile book
- Walking in Yorkshire
Minerva Crafts

Tag Archives: Cool Crafting
Daisy the Sheep
It’s our local show on Saturday and I rashly entered ten items, many of which hadn’t been started, never mind finished! One such class was a toy suitable for a young child, in other words it had to be small … Continue reading
Posted in Luna Lapin, Serendipity, Sewing
Tagged Cool Crafting, Crafts, Daisy the Sheep, Luna Lapin, sewing, toy making
3 Comments
Little Miss Rabbit
The well dressed rabbit I made for my daughter for Christmas has gone to her new home. She was made from the patterns in the Luna Lapin books by Sarah Peel of Cool Crafting in Kendal. She has a reversible … Continue reading
A Fluffle of Bunnies
I do like the traditional collective nouns, a charm of goldfinches, a peep of chickens, a parliament of owls…and a fluffle of bunnies. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been stitching my own fluffle of Luna Lapins. Luna Lapin … Continue reading
There’s a Mouse in the House…
I decided a couple of weeks ago to make a Wilhelmina Woodmouse for my new granddaughter for Christmas, she’s six and her favourite colour is dusky pink. Whilst I was at the Knitting and Stitching show at the weekend I … Continue reading
Posted in Crafts, Luna Lapin, Sewing
Tagged Cool Crafting, Luna Lapin, Wilhelmina Woodmouse
17 Comments
Archers Shirt
I have finally got a new computer! My old one was driving me scatty as it would have to think for at least 10 minutes quietly deciding whether to do as I ask…and then crash!! I’ve spent today trying to … Continue reading
Posted in Dressmaking, Fabric shops
Tagged Archers Button up Shirt, Cool Crafting, Grainline, Shirt making
11 Comments
Walking in the Lakes
Helen and I had a few days in the Lake District last week, staying in a lovely flat above the Wheatsheaf Inn in Lorton. Lorton is nicely situated in between Keswick and Buttermere, so all my favourite places to walk … Continue reading
Posted in Fabric shops, Luna Lapin, Serendipity, Walking
Tagged Catbells, Cool Crafting, Haystacks, Lake District, Walking in the Lakes
11 Comments
Violet Speedwell
Violet is feeling very pleased with herself as she has a new coat… Violet is a very particular rabbit from the Luna Lapin books by Sarah Peel of Cool Crafting. I made her a couple of months back having had … Continue reading
Skye Wrap
I’ve admired Skye Wraps for a while, they’re a pattern from Cool Crafting, (the home of Luna Lapin!!) and they keep appearing on my facebook feed. I finally bought the pattern at the Harrogate Show in November. Whilst sorting out … Continue reading
Clothes for George
George has finally got a set of clothes… George is my first attempt at making a Luna Lapin rabbit, the patterns are all in a lovely book by Sarah Peel called Making Luna Lapin. He’s all hand-stitched apart from the … Continue reading


