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Hi, Welcome to my Blog. I'm an eclectic kind of crafter delving into many pots. I am just about managing to keep up my Scrapbooking Diary (currently a year behind!), plus any cards as required. As my Carpal Tunnel allows I am getting into yarn/fabric crafts with slow stitching and needle felting added to my list. I continue with my love of Watercolour and Bible Journaling plus Faith/Art Journaling with acrylics and inks. I completed my challenge to make an art journal page a day for my 60th year in 2024. My list of crafty exploits includes ATCs, Tags, Altered Books, Mixed Media, Décopatch, Knitting, Crochet, and Embroidery. I live in Surrey, UK with my husband, our son has left home now. For exercise I usually play Badminton and go Ballroom and Latin Dancing. I also like Walking/Geocaching. I have been learning to play the harp for the past 10yrs. I am now officially retired. I am a born again Christian, currently worshiping at my local Evangelical Church.

Monday, 6 March 2017

1 Year of Stitches

OK so I am a bit late for the start of 2017 but I was so inspired by a friend's work that I just HAD to start one of my own.

So my 1 Year of Stitches begins with a scrap of old white table cloth with an intrinsic ivy leaf design.

My 10" hoop, my trusty embroidery book and the gifted embroidery threads I got in January via Streetlife (which is sadly no more).


I have no plan whatsoever and am just going with the flow.

Started with some Stem Stitch around one of the leaves, then a glance in the book to find an embellished Stem Stitch called Portuguese Stem Stitch to do the veins in the leaf.

Well that is day one done.
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Julia Dunnit said...

How lovely, I hope you get a lot of pleasure doing this! I like the go with the flow approach, it'll be very pretty. I'm working on one but it's pre printed! It also use a much smaller hoop (4")... I find it's too much to hold otherwise!!

7 March 2017 at 10:55

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