-
Join 1,333 other subscribers
Blog Stats
- 563,860 hits
Categories
- 2020 Vision (4)
- Anne Brooke SAL (3)
- Baking (3)
- balance (2)
- Books (21)
- Christmas (100)
- Coming Home Quilt (22)
- Crafts (230)
- Crochet (6)
- cross-stitch (79)
- Down The Rabbit Hole (43)
- Dressmaking (170)
- Eighteen for 18 (13)
- embroidery (651)
- F2F (9)
- Fabric shops (32)
- Garden (240)
- grandchildren (17)
- Home (40)
- kits (36)
- Luna Lapin (18)
- Machine embroidery (11)
- My Monthly Challenge (12)
- Nineteen for 19 (14)
- Owl and Hare Hollow BOM (36)
- Peppermint Purple 2021 SAL (7)
- Photo Challenge (63)
- Poem of the month (8)
- Postcards from the Hedge (2)
- Quilt-a-long (178)
- Quilting (380)
- Raggedy Ruff Designs (14)
- Serendipity (894)
- Sewing (242)
- Sewing for Grandchildren (14)
- sewing room (23)
- Skipton Stitchers (30)
- Smalls of the Month (44)
- Splendid Sampler Quilt (40)
- Stitch-a-long (261)
- Stitching my Garden (44)
- TAST (12)
- Textile Books (158)
- 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 (8)
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: sampler
Wedding Sampler
Two good friends were married on Friday, I thought long and hard about wedding presents as they are both about our age, settled in their home, and originally said they didn’t want any presents…well that wasn’t going to happen! I … Continue reading
Drawn Thread Sampler
This weekend I decided to buckle down and finish the Jane Greenoff sampler I started on holiday. It’s drawn thread and hardanger, I’ve really enjoyed stitching it but it’s all new to me and I haven’t found the instructions particularly user … Continue reading
Posted in Crafts, Serendipity, Sewing
Tagged Drawn-thread, embroidery, Hardanger, sampler
10 Comments
Drawn Thread Sampler
This year I decided to take an embroidery kit on holiday instead of a book, it’s much lighter to pack and it’s nice to have a bit of quiet time, even on holiday! I chose one I bought last year … Continue reading
Cross-stitch Birth Samplers
I love doing or making something special to commemorate an important event, be it making a quilt, planting a tree or a rose or stitching a sampler, I’ve done them all, apart from everything else its a good excuse to … Continue reading


