-
Join 1,333 other subscribers
Blog Stats
- 607,302 hits
Categories
- 2020 Vision (4)
- Anne Brooke SAL (4)
- Baking (3)
- balance (2)
- Books (21)
- Christmas (100)
- Coming Home Quilt (22)
- Crafts (231)
- Crochet (6)
- cross-stitch (85)
- Down The Rabbit Hole (43)
- Dressmaking (171)
- Eighteen for 18 (13)
- embroidery (659)
- F2F (9)
- Fabric shops (32)
- Garden (240)
- grandchildren (17)
- Home (40)
- kits (37)
- Luna Lapin (18)
- Machine embroidery (11)
- My Monthly Challenge (12)
- Nineteen for 19 (14)
- Owl and Hare Hollow BOM (37)
- Peppermint Purple 2021 SAL (7)
- Photo Challenge (63)
- Poem of the month (8)
- Postcards from the Hedge (3)
- Quilt-a-long (178)
- Quilting (380)
- Raggedy Ruff Designs (14)
- Serendipity (903)
- Sewing (242)
- Sewing for Grandchildren (14)
- sewing room (23)
- Skipton Stitchers (30)
- Smalls of the Month (44)
- Splendid Sampler Quilt (40)
- Stitch-a-long (262)
- Stitching my Garden (44)
- TAST (12)
- Textile Books (167)
- 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 (9)
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: garden
Tuesday’s Totter Round the Garden
I’ve finally managed to have a few good sessions in the garden – it’s been so wet up to recently that I’m way behind on the spring tidy up, over Easter I managed two good days in the garden… I … Continue reading
Posted in Garden
Tagged clematis, English Garden, flowers, garden, gardening, hellebores, Magnolia Stellata, pond gardening, Snowdrops, Spring
7 Comments
Busy busy busy!
I’ve had a crazy busy few days trying to get stuff done before we go away for a short break, I ended up with a few deadlines, some of which I’ve met…and some I haven’t! I completely missed the SAL … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Sewing for Grandchildren, Skipton Stitchers, Stitch-a-long
Tagged embroidery, garden
9 Comments
Stitching my Garden SAL
I was hoping to have finished this area of the garden by now but I found there is a disadvantage in having a hedge (ish) of wild roses across the back of the garden, it takes forever to embroider!! I … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Garden, Stitch-a-long, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books
Tagged embroidery, garden, Stitch a garden
15 Comments
Stitching my Garden SAL
I’m making progress with my embroidered garden project, I started this when I did the Stitch-a-garden zoom course by Nicky from The Stitchery. I’m stitching a textile book about my garden, this is the ‘map’ of the lawn area at … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Garden, Stitch-a-long, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books
Tagged embroidery, garden, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books
23 Comments
Stitch My Garden SAL
Three weeks ago when I last posted about my garden embroidery, I had just started the lay out of the area by the summerhouse… I haven’t done a huge amount but I’ve started the ‘hard landscaping’, as with a real … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Garden, Stitch-a-long, Stitching my Garden, Textile Books
Tagged embroidery, garden, Stitching my Garden
10 Comments
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
9 Comments
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
Monday’s Meander Round the Garden
After a week away walking the Cleveland Way I had just one night at home to pack a suitcase for a two day conference in Sheffield with work! I managed a little wander round the garden though to see what … Continue reading
Friday Photos on Saturday
I completely forgot it was Friday yesterday, well I didn’t forget as such, I just forgot to post the Friday Photo Challenge from Postcard from Gibraltar! So maybe this should be called Snaps on Saturday!! The theme yesterday was midsummer, … Continue reading
Monday’s Meander Around the Garden
It seems a while since I did a proper garden post, not a lot happens over winter! However things are starting to move, spring is on it’s way!! I was away for a couple of days last weekend and it … Continue reading


