Just a quick message to wish everyone a Happy Easter. Hubby and I are off to Cologne for the Easter period, and very much looking forward to it! We’ve never been before, and not only is this our first trip to Cologne, it’s also our first trip to Germany (yay!). I hope you have a …
This is a stitch I had heard of before, but have never stitched. Like most of these stitches, I feel it would have been a good stitch to have known before! Whilst on my sampler elephant, I have used it decoratively, I have a feeling it would really come into its own when edging and …
Do you ever have project where you struggle to find your rhythm? It’s not that you don’t like it, or you’re disinterested in it, or anything else. You just struggle to ‘move’ with it. It goes no where fast, despite you really wanting to make in roads with it. Well, the Trevelyon Cap Course is …
I have to say, I’m really enjoying participating in the weekly TAST Stitch Challenges. I’m learning about a whole lot of new stitches, some completely new to me, and others variations on stitches I have used before. And it’s challenging me to use a range of different threads. I haven’t bought any new ones, I’m …
TAST 2016 Stitch 32 – Raised Cross stitch Flower Read More »
After tossing up in my mind what to ‘do’ with the stump work piece I worked at the one day RSN class I attended back in January, I finally decided I was going to have a go at making a wall hanging or plaque. I was thinking about making it into some hoop art, but …