This is a very long post. Ye be warned. ;-) It’s my birthday on Monday and Tony’s family is coming here on Sunday. We are going to have.. an approximation of a traditional Danish birthday…
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Phew, my mum and her friend have rebooked flights and hotel and are coming over in May – so only a few weeks’ delay. Fingers crossed that the volcano doesn’t get up to its ash-y…
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Sometimes I like my embroidery to be random.. no pattern, no real thought behind it. Just playing with colours and stitches. Because I make patterns, I think it is important to break away from the…
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So you may have heard that the volcano Eyjafjallajökull on Iceland is spewing ash into the air and it has travelled down here to England (et al.) According to the weather people it won’t* affect…
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Ok, finally getting round to showing you the rest of those Spoonflower swatches. Well here they are! Some of them, anyway; splitting them into two. Just because… Some of the prints look a bit faded…
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I am so happy to show you this, my new pattern: Tree of Love. It is of course a sibling of the Tree of Life pattern. I have been wanting to make a ‘sequel’ to…
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When we were last in Denmark, we visited this old shop. It is decorated much like in the olden days and they have loads of old bottles, packaging, toys, tins and loads more. The place…
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My parents have a crocheted blanket/bedspread which my Farmor (paternal grandma) made for them. She copied it from a blanket my mum had inherited from her Mormor (maternal grandma).There was no pattern, so Farmor simply…
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