-
Join 1,287 other subscribers
Blog Stats
- 420,551 hits
Categories
- 2020 Vision (4)
- Baking (2)
- balance (1)
- Books (19)
- Christmas (95)
- Coming Home Quilt (20)
- Crafts (224)
- Crochet (6)
- cross-stitch (42)
- Down The Rabbit Hole (43)
- Dressmaking (153)
- Eighteen for 18 (13)
- embroidery (538)
- F2F (7)
- Fabric shops (29)
- Garden (216)
- Home (39)
- kits (10)
- Luna Lapin (16)
- Machine embroidery (10)
- My Monthly Challenge (12)
- Nineteen for 19 (14)
- Owl and Hare Hollow BOM (2)
- Peppermint Purple 2021 SAL (7)
- Photo Challenge (62)
- Poem of the month (8)
- Quilt-a-long (139)
- Quilting (323)
- Raggedy Ruff Designs (10)
- Serendipity (836)
- Sewing (231)
- Sewing for Grandchildren (2)
- sewing room (15)
- Skipton Stitchers (19)
- Smalls of the Month (44)
- Splendid Sampler Quilt (40)
- Stitch-a-long (214)
- Stitching my Garden (31)
- TAST (12)
- Textile Books (99)
- The Dales 30 (5)
- The Dales 30 (1)
- The Stitchbook Collective (16)
- The Travelling Sketchbook (33)
- Tutorials (2)
- Walking (59)
- Wedding (14)
- Women's Institute (7)
- Workshops (34)
Archives
Tags
- #downtherabbithole
- #postcardfromgibfridayphoto
- Anthea Calendar SAL
- applique
- Catbells
- Christmas
- clematis
- cross-stitch
- Cross-stitch smalls
- Down The Rabbit Hole
- dress-making
- Dressmaking
- embroidery
- Faby Reilly Designs
- garden
- Hand-quilting
- Quilting
- Raggedy Ruff Designs
- Roses
- sewing
- Spring garden
- Stitching my Garden
- textile book
- Travelling Sketchbook
- Walking in Yorkshire
Minerva Crafts
Tag Archives: gardening
Tuesday’s Totter round the garden
Our garden has been sorely neglected over the winter, though if you’re going to neglect a garden it’s the best time to do it and the local wildlife will thank me for it! We seem to have had storm after … Continue reading
Stitch-a-Garden
Just before Christmas I fell for a series of on line classes by Nicki Franklin of The Stitchery. I’d admired her work for quite a while on instagram, she does beautiful, pretty embroideries of flowers, country scenes, cottages…this was an … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Garden, Stitch-a-long, Workshops
Tagged embroidery, gardening, Stitch-a-Garden, The Stitchery
8 Comments
Monday’s Meander Round the Garden
August was a bit of a damp squib here in Yorkshire, I’m a fair weather gardener so I didn’t get out much! The weather has finally picked up a bit and there is now LOTS to do in the garden!! … Continue reading
Nineteen for 19
This month is flying by, I thought if I don’t hurry up with my update, I’ll be writing Nineteen for 19 on the 19th! So we are now half way through the year, so how am I doing with my … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Garden, Nineteen for 19, Quilting, Sewing
Tagged embroidery, gardening, Nineteen for 19, Quilting, Walking
8 Comments
Monday’s Meander Round the Garden
I took a long hard look at our garden last week, I know it looks great in the photos but I’m very selective!!! I’ve felt this summer that it isn’t as colourful as usual. Two years ago my new year … Continue reading
Mondays Meander Round the Garden
I haven’t had any time in the garden this week, it’s been perfect growing weather too, wet and warm (ish!) so the weeds are growing nicely, we’ll just have to turn a blind eye to those, selective photography and all … Continue reading
Monday’s Meander Around the Garden
These Monday’s seem to come around awfully fast these days, I’m sure that’s a sign of getting old!! I love early June in the garden, the leaves are still a pretty fresh green, all the foliage is still luxuriant, the … Continue reading
Flowers galore
I went to the Harrogate Spring Flower Show on Sunday with some friends, two of us go every year but it was a new experience for one friend in particular. We had a great time and the weather was cold … Continue reading
Monday’s Meander through the garden
I’m showing you these photos hoping it will spur me into action to sort our my garden. You see the first seven months of this year have been so hectic with sewing, crafts and mini breaks that the garden has been … Continue reading
Monday’s Meander Round the Garden
It seems ages since I blogged about my sewing, it isn’t that I haven’t been making things, I’ve been really busy creating, I just can’t show you it yet, it’s either a present for someone I know reads this blog, … Continue reading