04
Nov 2023
Appliqué Protests
I have been making these…protest appliqués over the past few months. I have ideas for many more. Living in Tory Britain leaves us with plenty to protest against… I am not sure what to do…
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01
Nov 2023
Happy Samhain!
It is time for the next instalment in the 2023 Wheel of The Year stitchalong. I have really been looking forward to stitching this on because I had planned on using the battlement filling stitch.…
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It is time for the next instalment in the 2023 Wheel of The Year stitchalong. I have really been looking forward to stitching this on because I had planned on using the battlement filling stitch.…
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30
Oct 2023
Revived Hexagon Quilt
I started working on a hexagon quilt, using only Denyse Schmidt fabrics, in 2013. Twenty Thirteen! The picture above shows pretty much the sum total of how far I got with that project. Since then,…
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27
Oct 2023
Baking Panis Quadratus
Something a bit different from my usual posts… I baked a panis quadratus! Bread in the style of Ancient Rome! I don’t know why it has never occurred to me that you could do that.…
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06
Oct 2023
Trying Paint-Box Threads
I tried some new threads, by Paint-Box Threads (that I bought myself) and I made a video about it. :-) You can watch the video over on YouTube. In the video I’m also doing a…
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05
Oct 2023
New: 2022 Wheel of The Year Pattern
I have finally (!) finished turning the files from the 2022 Wheel of The Year stitchalong into a pattern. I didn’t expect it to take this long, almost a year! But it’s finally done. Buy…
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05
Oct 2023
03
Oct 2023
Cushion for A Friend
This cushion cover is a present I made for one of my friends in Denmark. She was born in Lebanon but spent a good chunk of her childhood and her teenage years in Denmark. We…
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23
Sep 2023
Happy Autumn Equinox!
A couple of weeks ago it really did not feel like any kind of autumn was near at all. For about a week we hit 29-32°C every day. Too hot for England, too hot for…
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A couple of weeks ago it really did not feel like any kind of autumn was near at all. For about a week we hit 29-32°C every day. Too hot for England, too hot for…
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