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30 July 201714 August 2017

‘My’ Secret Garden

It has been nearly a month since I have done the ‘Secret Garden’ day class at the Royal School of Needlework. The ‘Secret Garden’ is a design featuring ribbonwork and stumpwork embroidery techniques and has been designed and was taught by Helen Richman of The Bluebird Embroidery Company. The design actually features in her forthcoming…

12 July 201714 August 2017

Finished ‘Flora’

Those of you who follow my social media accounts will have already seen the completed Jacobean Crewelwork project I started during a Royal School of Needlework day class. I finished it during a week’s holiday in Cornwall and since the WIFI-signal was not very reliable I thought I would better wait writing a blog post…

31 May 201710 June 2017

My goldwork pheasant

It is finished! I can’t believe it I have actually completed it. In a previous post I have written about starting this project from Inspirations Magazine 93 (design by Jenny Adin -Christie) and how much I loved the design. I really happy with the final result and how it resembles to original design but that…

21 May 201710 June 2017

Hygge

Can’t believe I have actually finished it! Moreover, I have finished it within the 14 weeks set for the CAL, even though we have been on holiday for a large part of it. When I started in the middle of February I was very excited about the CAL but also a bit scared as I hadn’t…

22 April 201710 June 2017

Simon the Sheep

Based on my past purchases, Amazon had been recommending Edward’s menagerie by Kerry Lord for ages. However, I only really looked at it when I spotted it on a bookshelf at the Glasgow branch of Waterstones last August. I was immediately taken by the lovely cute designs and I couldn’t resist buying a copy. When I got…