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Tag Archives: Fabric Books
Bird Alphabet
Last night I finished another letter in the bird alphabet, so I have stitched A to H now, almost a third of the way through. This morning I also worked out what size to do the back-stitch squares round each … Continue reading
Postcards from the Hedge SAL
It’s time for a happy dance, I finished my Postcards from the Hedge book! Three weeks ago I had a little stack of prepared pages, I just had to make the cover and work out how to bind the book. … Continue reading
Cross-Stitch Words Book
I’ve been concentrating on my cross-stitch words book over the last couple of weeks, I felt ready to get it finished! I’m making it using the tab and slot method which is a way of putting together a book by … Continue reading
Posted in cross-stitch, embroidery, Serendipity, Textile Books
Tagged Crafts, cross-stitch, embroidery, Fabric Books, sewing, slot and tab book, writing
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Holiday Stitching
My main holiday stitching project was a new one, the bird alphabet from the French designer, Les Brodeuses Parisiennes, so it’s officially called Le Grande Alphabet Oiseaux. I took squares of two different shades of Permin even weave linen in … Continue reading
Posted in cross-stitch, embroidery, Textile Books
Tagged Bird alphabet, cross-stitch, Fabric Books, Les Brodeuses Parisiennes
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Postcards form the Hedge SAL
I’m still making pretty slow progress on these postcards but I have managed to finish another one before going on holiday. Three weeks ago I had made good progress with my dragonfly embroidery, the background and the body was stitched … Continue reading
Posted in Serendipity
Tagged Dragonflies, embroidery, Fabric Books, Postcards from the Hedgerow
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Stitching on the Go
After quite a lot of time in airports or on planes I’ve just finished the little sheepish virtue cross stitch, well it’s as finished as it can be until I get home as I’ve run out of ecru to finish … Continue reading
Posted in cross-stitch, embroidery, Serendipity, Textile Books
Tagged cross-stitch, embroidery, Fabric Books, Little Sheep Virtues
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Stitching on the Go
Well I’m thoroughly enjoying being retired, I’m afraid I haven’t missed worked at all!! I haven’t been quite so productive as I hoped, I think I need to get a bit more organised. I have managed a fair bit of … Continue reading
Posted in cross-stitch, embroidery, Textile Books
Tagged cross-stitch, embroidery, Fabric Books, Little Sheep Virtues
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Birds and Blooms Book
As I mentioned in my last post, my Birds and Blooms book won 3rd prize at Otley Show, last time I wrote about it was at the end of April, I had just begun constructing it… All the pages are … Continue reading
Posted in cross-stitch, embroidery, Serendipity, Textile Books
Tagged Birds and Blooms book, cross-stitch, embroidery, Fabric Books, sewing
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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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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


