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Behind with Temperatures

Behind with Temperatures

The Temperatures 2021 embroidery is moving along at its own slow pace. Very slow. At the moment I am about a month behind. I had hoped that I wouldn’t get this far behind but here…

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Friday Links: Cupcake, Shuttle, God

Friday Links: Cupcake, Shuttle, God

I have drawn the patterns for the November mandalas stitchalong and now I am at one of my favourite bits: picking the colours! :-) More about the stitchalong next week. But I hope it’s ok…

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Nature Details

Nature Details

Yesterday I did something I haven’t done in a long while. A long, long while. I went for a walk with my proper camera. Since phone cameras have gotten so much better and it is…

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Nature Details
Friday Links: Gaelic, Prayer Rugs, Cats

Friday Links: Gaelic, Prayer Rugs, Cats

It seems that I have got into a habit of darning socks on Saturday evenings. This is one of my efforts from last Saturday. I thought I’d do a little flower to darn this sock…

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Sketching Wren’s Churches

Sketching Wren’s Churches

As I’ve mentioned, I have been taking part in a sketchbook course which I have really enjoyed. Although I haven’t had as much time to participate in the classroom as I had hoped. But that’s…

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Sketching Wren’s Churches
More Sketching

More Sketching

A few more pages from my sketchbook, made while participating in the Sketchbook Design course. That first one is of our conservatory while they were working on the roof. You can’t really tell from the…

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More Sketching

A few more pages from my sketchbook, made while participating in the Sketchbook Design course. That first one is of our conservatory while they were working on the roof. You can’t really tell from the…

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View to The Sky

View to The Sky

Sketch I made a couple of weeks ago, looking into our conservatory. We were getting ready to have the conservatory roof replaced. I like the detail of Blake sleeping on his mat. He likes being…

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Transfer & Stitch Book

Transfer & Stitch Book

A couple of weeks ago I received a book from Search Press (publisher of three of my books). The book is called Transfer & Stitch: 140 Beautiful Designs to Embroider*. It is a compilation, a…

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Transfer & Stitch Book
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