20
Aug 2019
Slow stitching
Hello friends!The deadline for my next book is coming up fast. Like, less than a month left fast! I would have liked to be a bit further along in the process, but the whole ‘having…
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19
Jul 2019
Friday Links: Abbreviations, Frida Kahlo, Baby Elephant
My little sewing room/studio is still a right mess after our renovation. Various furniture has been crammed in there so basically now there’s no free floor space. We bought some new furniture in the redecorating…
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15
Jul 2019
London Exhibitions
I visited the Fashion & Textile Museum in London on Friday, to see the Weavers of the Clouds: Textile Arts of Peru exhibition. It was pretty amazing! So full of embroidery and colours! If you…
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I visited the Fashion & Textile Museum in London on Friday, to see the Weavers of the Clouds: Textile Arts of Peru exhibition. It was pretty amazing! So full of embroidery and colours! If you…
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05
Jul 2019
Friday Links :: Crochet Galore, Drawings, Venice
Happy Friday! Today is day 96 in my New York #100dayproject where I’m sketching some of the photos I took on our New York trip last year. I haven’t missed a single day! A few…
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02
Jul 2019
Soft Under Foot
Hello! We are through the worst bits of the renovating/decorating process. The very messy and noisy bit of having the chimney and fireplace removed is done, as is the plastering and most of the painting.…
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16
May 2019
13 Years of Blogging
Happy birthday to my blog! I started this blog in early May 2006 as a free WordPress blog but then I moved it to Blogger on May 16th and that’s where it was until the…
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Happy birthday to my blog! I started this blog in early May 2006 as a free WordPress blog but then I moved it to Blogger on May 16th and that’s where it was until the…
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10
May 2019
Friday Links :: Murals, Instagram, Quilling
Hello, happy Friday! In the next couple of weeks, Tony and I are going to start stripping our living room of wallpaper and the awful heavy “decorative” moulding that one of the previous owners had…
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03
May 2019
Friday Links :: Brownies, Goldwork, Podcasts
A little while ago we came across a TV series called Speechless. It’s been going for a few years, but we only discovered it recently. From IMDB: The family of a special-needs teen is good…
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