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Tag Archives: Free Motion Machine Embroidery
A Winter Wreath Quilt
Three years or so ago I stitched a Spring Wreath quilt, it was a design by Andrea Walpole of Raggedy Ruff Designs. I’ve made several of her designs and kits now, they all raw edge applique with free motion machine … Continue reading
A Seaside Cushion
A work colleague of mine has just made the big move to an island in the Outer Hebrides, an enormous change from the busy city life in Leeds. A friend suggested as a leaving present it would be nice if … Continue reading
Posted in Machine embroidery, Quilting
Tagged Free Motion Machine Embroidery, The Seaside Quilt, Seaside cushion
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Secret Garden Quilt
I’ve just finished the first of nine blocks for my Secret Garden quilt. This was a BOM from Andrea of Raggedy Ruffy Designs last year (or may even be the year before!) Things happened and I never got started, but … Continue reading
…and then there were three!
They always say if you hear a mouse in your house then there’s definitely more than one, I’ve now made another two mice, well pictures of them anyway! Over the summer Andrea from Raggedy Ruff Designs was selling various odd … Continue reading
A Handsome Pheasant.
On Sunday I posted about my pheasant block, this is a kit from Raggedy Ruff Designs, I’ve quite a few waiting to be stitched. I only started it on Saturday evening, so by Sunday I’d made the background block, cut … Continue reading
Posted in cross-stitch, Quilt-a-long, Quilting, Serendipity
Tagged Free Motion Machine Embroidery, Pheasant, Quilting, Raggedy Ruff Designs
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Three Heads for a Pheasant
I’ve got a bit behind in my posting this week, I seem to have a few projects on which are not necessarily that interesting in the half way stage, like the white blouse I’ve been making. Hopefully this coming week … Continue reading
Posted in Quilting, Serendipity
Tagged Free Motion Machine Embroidery, Pheasant, Quilting, Raggedy Ruff Designs
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Raggdy Ruff-a-long
I’m trying to make some inroads into my stash of kits, particularly the ones by Raggedy Ruff, they’re gorgeous but they do still intimidate me a bit! So to motivate myself a bit I’m posting about one every three weeks, … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Quilting
Tagged Free Motion Machine Embroidery, hare embroidery, Raggedy Ruff Designs
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Raggedy-Ruff-a-long!
I have two stitch-a-longs on a three weekly cycle, an embroidery one and a hand quilting one. I’ve decided on the Sunday in between I’m going to do a post on a quilt kit. To begin with these are going … Continue reading
Posted in kits, Quilting, Serendipity, Sewing
Tagged applique, Free Motion Machine Embroidery, Raggedy Ruff Designs, Susie the Cat
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Grasses and Flowers Workshop
A couple of months back I spotted a course run by Jo Hill which looked rather interesting. With so many teachers going on line it does make for a lot more opportunities to attend workshops, whilst there is something special … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Workshops
Tagged Free Motion Machine Embroidery, Jo Hill, stitching flowers and grasses
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Dancing Round my Spring Wreath
This week I finally settled down and stitched the last part of my Spring Wreath quilt, this is a Block of the Month (BOM) by Andrea Walpole of Raggedy Ruff Designs and it has been amazing to do. I fell … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Quilting
Tagged Free Motion Machine Embroidery, Quilting, Raggedy Ruff Designs, Spring Wreath Quilt
22 Comments