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Tag Archives: embroidery
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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Stitching Maps
I’ve enrolled on a Zara Day Cartography Embroidery course, I’m way behind as usual but as Zara sends links for all the recordings which I can then save, it doesn’t matter how long I take! I’m just enjoying the journey! … Continue reading
Stitch a garden SAL
I have finally made some progress with my garden SAL. This is a course by Nicki from the Stitchery, she’s been giving lots of ideas on how to represent trees, flowers and structures etc. I’m making mine into a book … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Garden, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books
Tagged embroidery, garden, Stitching my Garden
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A Flower Wreath
A few weeks ago I bought a surprise bundle of linen and designs from SoukieSoo, I follow her on instagram and I like her style. Quite a few were immediately earmarked for my garden book. Once I’d finished my ladybugs … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Serendipity, Textile Books
Tagged embroidery, Flower wreath, SoukieSoo
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Cartography Course
Several of our Skipton Stitchers members have done on-line embroidery courses with Zara Day and they’ve always enthused about them so one of them mentioned she had just signed up for her cartography course I decided to check it out. … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Serendipity, Workshops
Tagged cartography, embroidery, stitching maps, Yorkshire Dales, Zara Day
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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
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
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Stitching on the Move Bag
Having decorated a cotton bag for the competition at Skipton Stitchers, I then turned to the fabric sample which needed titivating and turning into something. A few years ago I made a project bag to live in my handbag with … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Serendipity, Sewing, Skipton Stitchers
Tagged embroidery, Sewing bag, Skipton Stitchers, Stitching on the Move
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