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Cafe Cartolina

Cafe Cartolina

How wonderous the interweb is and how kind people are. Last week I poked my head out of my shell (I am quite shy, so it’s not something I do very often!), and emailed Fiona…

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Fruity Segments

Fruity Segments

Hello, feel like some stitching? Get yourself over to the free patterns page. One of them is for the one in the picture. You can fill the shapes with satin stitches or Lazy Satin Stitch.…

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Lazy Satin Stitch

Lazy Satin Stitch

Oh I know, you are excited to know how to do the extremely complicated Lazy Person’s Satin Stitch. Well, gosh, aren’t you in luck, I am here to tell you! Draw the area you want…

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Fruity geometric stitching

Fruity geometric stitching

I know, it probably comes as a complete surprise that I have been embroidering! I suddenly got this idea and I had to Do It! So i spent a couple of days doing very little…

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A year in stitches

A year in stitches

These are most of the embroideries I did last year – and 2 or 3 from this year have sneaked in as well. Not shown in this photo is the large pile of unfinished or…

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Dotty for Wonky

Dotty for Wonky

This is quite special to me. It is fabric with my design on it (I’ve mentioned it before). But before I only had a 8″x8″ swatch of it. Now I have, not exactly yardage, but…

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Free embroidery pattern for you

Free embroidery pattern for you

Look what I made today. I am so happy with it. Especially because I went out of my comfort zone a bit. Using colours that (to me, anyway) are a lot more subdued than the…

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Excellent stitching

Excellent stitching

Take a looky at this, my friends! Someone has been stitching up one of my patterns. Alyce only bought the Marigold Sugar Skull pattern a couple of weeks ago! And she has already managed to make…

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