Here’s a not quite finished, but finished enough to show you project! This stitchery was the first stitchery I received as part Under the Mulberry Tree Stitchery of the Month Club in 2009. The pattern is now available in Rosalie Quinlan’s A Stitch in Time Book. I started this, and was enthused, and then got swept [...]
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Woo hoo! I finished, I finished… well, technically, not really but I have finished stitching these little beauties. I wrote about these on my very first blog post here and said I hoped to be finished soon, ha ha! That was September 2008 and last night I put the last stitch in the last butterfly. [...]
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And yes, more Dresden Plates! These are the last of the ones I’ve made up for now… not quite finished. 5 plates made, 2 appliqued down, 3 to go… and then need to add circles. Will have yellow centre when finished… This will have white with pink… Will use the purple spot… Pink/raspberry spot… The [...]
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This past weekend has been full of festivities to celebrate Flossie’s 70th birthday, starting off with a day at the Glenharrow Spring Stitch-in on Friday, with a lovely day had by all, that miracle of miracle’s actually included me doing some stitching instead of gum flapping for a change. Two lovely little kits from Rosalie [...]
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Well, I’m back with a fully functioning camera… pity the camera operator is hopeless! So what have I been doing? Not a lot… have been working really long hours, on brain drain type work – exciting, but exhausting… so when I get home I’ve been flitting between projects and reading (see that other place about [...]
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Well, the camera has finally given up the ghost… so no progress reports here until I can replace it… will start having a look around over the weekend. Not that there was anything much to flaunt this week anyway, lots of incremental steps on projects under way and a new start… only way to get [...]
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A belated Friday flaunt from me, and mostly flaunting Flossie’s (Mum) work as I’ve done zip this week, due to a combination of working till 8.00pm each day and reading the whole Harry Potter series (7 books) over the last 10 days, in preparation for a trip to movies to see Harry Potter and the [...]
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A post by Julie on QDU and her blog reminded me about my Dear Jane quilt, which is sadly languishing in a box. A lovely fresh quilt by saarlc My buddy Jayne and I did a class at Somerset Patchwork last year, and finally, after having the book for years, I started this ‘gunna’ project. [...]
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