With only 12 hours to go until the end of 2018 I have finished my London Light needlepoint cushion. 2018 has been a year of only a few rather large projects. I started this kit by Hannah Bass Needlepoint back in April 2018. I had spotted Hannah’s kits during my first visit to the Knitting…
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Happy New Year everyone! Following on from yesterday’s post looking back at the highlights of the Stitching Sheep’s first year, I thought it would be fitting to celebrate it’s anniversary today and look ahead at the things 2018 will hopefully have in store for the Stitching Sheep. I have actually started writing this post enjoying…
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Today is the 31st of December. Besides being the last day of 2017 it is also the last day of the first year of the Stitching Sheep and what a year it has been! I am so glad I have taken the plunge last year to launch the Stitching Sheep’s blog and social media accounts.…
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You will have noticed that the Stitching Sheep’s blog has been rather quiet for the last two weeks. It is not because I have not been doing anything craft-related as my frequent Facebook, Instagram and Twitter posts will testify, but they are rather a mixed bag of things so this will be kind of a…
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Kreadoe, the largest multi-craft show of the Netherlands is held at the Jaarbeurs-complex in Utrecht from the 1st until the 5th of November. I am really happy to share with you all that the Stitching Sheep will be present on Friday the 3rd of November as an official blogger of the show! During the day…
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Today I have visited the Knitting & Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace. I really like this show at it has a great mix of all types of yarn, thread and fabric crafts and it has a good mix of small businesses/individual designers and bigger companies. I have been for these past two years but unlike previous…
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Crafting is a lot of fun, at least in my opinion. It is even more enjoyable if you can share your crafting with someone else or even craft together. This way you become part of a crafting community or part of what Vickie Howell calls The Hive. For those of you who do not know…
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Owing to decorating our bedroom and work being really busy, I have not had much time over the past few weeks to do a lot of crafting, let alone any time to write my blog. Our home was a complete mess with clothes, furniture, tools and cleaning equipment strewn all over the place I found it…
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Yesterday, my mum and I attended the Handwerkbeurs in Zwolle. It is the largest needlecraft show in the Netherlands with about 220 exhibitors. This means it is just over half the size of the Knitting & Stitching show at Alexandra Palace which hosts about 400 exhibitors. However, both shows have a very different feel. Whereas the…
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This week has been a rather quiet week, craft wise that is. Not by choice but because I have been ill with the bug that been going around, which meant that I have not been able to do any embroidery for the past few days. Today I was happy to feel much better and to…
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