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Tag Archives: embroidery
Birds and Blooms Book
I’ve started constructing my Birds and Blooms book, this book is a mixture of new cross-stitch birds and ones I made over the last few years as mini cushions. I’ve interspersed them with a handful of cross-stitch flowers to fill … Continue reading
Posted in cross-stitch, kits, Textile Books
Tagged cross-stitch, Cross-stitch smalls, embroidery, Fabric Books, Fido Stitch Studio, sewing
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Birds and Blooms
It’s Otley Show soon and I’ve entered several handicraft classes including cross-stitch. I decided to make another fabric book using various cross-stitch birds and flowers I’ve stitched over the years plus a few new ones. We regularly get long-tail tits … Continue reading
Posted in cross-stitch, embroidery, kits, Textile Books
Tagged birds, Crafts, cross-stitch, embroidery, Fido Stitch Studio, sewing, textile book
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Butterfly Alphabet SAL
Where did the last three weeks go, probably in a blur of wall paper stripping and now painting! I have made a bit of progress, but not a lot! Happy Mothers Day to mums all over the world, I’ve spent … Continue reading
Bobbin Along
I’m so far behind with both reading and writing blogs, we’re having the kitchen and dining room knocked into one and a bathroom redesigned at the same time…seemed a good idea at the time!! We currently have no kitchen and … Continue reading
Posted in Anne Brooke SAL, embroidery, Stitch-a-long
Tagged Bobbin Along, Crafts, embroidery, sewing, textile book
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Butterfly Alphabet
It’s chaos at home at the moment, chaotic and very dusty! This week builders have started on our kitchen/dining room so walls have been knocked down, steel joists put up…you get the picture! The dust gets everywhere!! I know I’ve … Continue reading
Butterfly Alphabet
Having finished my Bee book I have just this week started a new project. It’s a kit that’s been in my stash for some time, gradually creeping up the to do list, I’m pretty sure I bought it for about … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, kits, Stitch-a-long
Tagged Butterfly Alphabet, DMC threads, embroidery, satin stitch
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Two Words
I caught up with the Anne Brooke Bobbin Along challenge last night. Each week she adds a little more stitching to a piece to represent a word, we’ve had layers, rolls. hummock…and a couple of weeks ago it was wrinkle. … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Stitch-a-long, Textile Books
Tagged Anne Brooke, Bobbin Along, embroidery, sewing, stitching
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A Mini Moon gazer
Since starting the Sewing Room Declutter Challenge (almost finished!) I’ve been trying to make up some of the kits I’ve acquired over the years. This is one I fell for at the Harrogate Knitting and Stitching Show last year, a … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, kits, Serendipity
Tagged crafting, Crafts, embroidery, mini moon gazer, Moonlight Hare, sewing, sewing kits, stitching
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A New Name
I’d been a member of Askwith with Weston WI since I was in between babies, nearly thirty years ago. I write that in the past tense, not because it has closed or I have left, but because it has recently … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Women's Institute
Tagged embroidery, Wharfedale WI, Women's Institute
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Bobbin Along week 3 & 4
I caught up with Anne Brookes weekly SAL over the weekend, luckily this weeks was a quick one! This SAL is to stitch on a large hoop, I’m making mine into a book as I haven’t enough wall space left … Continue reading


