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    How To Transfer Embroidery Patterns To Fabric

    January 11, 2020June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
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    How To Transfer Embroidery Patterns To Fabric This post contains affiliate links. ***Are you looking for an embroidery project? The photos used in this post are from an embroidery project I’ve designed for us to do together! The text is a line from one of my favourite songs,…

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    A New Year’s Embroidery Project

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    Book Review: Making a Life By Melanie Falik

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    Book Review: Making a Life By Melanie Falik I was sent a copy of this book to review. All the opinions expressed are my own. About the Book One of the things I love as much as making things is reading, so when I was offered a copy…

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    Easy Christmas Decorations To Sew in Under an Hour

    November 19, 2019June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Embroidery Hoop Christmas Decoration

    November 13, 2019June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Embroidery Hoop Christmas Decoration It’s fun to make things for Christmas, but it can be difficult to find the time, especially when it’s such a busy time of year anyway. I actually gave up trying to make a lot of things for Christmas a few years ago. I…

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    Tips For Using Digital Sewing Patterns

    November 9, 2019June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives

    Tips For Using Digital Sewing Patterns Often when I make clothes for myself using sewing patterns, it doesn’t go so well. Even this coat that I made a few years ago had some issues, although I considered it a success and I wore it for a number of…

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Wild Blossom Companion: A Gentle Beginning

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This is one of my favourite trees. It's round the This is one of my favourite trees.

It's round the corner from my house. I think it's a sycamore, and although I know very little about trees, I believe sycamores belong to the Maple family, which means they are especially gorgeous in autumn.

Can you see how on the right the leaves are changing colour? It's like it's got one arm in its autumn coat. 

I'll be keeping an eye on this tree over the next few weeks because I know it will be beautiful πŸ’–πŸπŸ‘Œ

Don't have a favourite tree? I'm sure you do! But if you really don't, I encourage you to choose one next time you are out. Or a few of you can't pick one πŸ’–

#creativelife #wildblossomlife #autumncolours #septembernature #smallthingsmatter
The house martins who spend the summers in their n The house martins who spend the summers in their nests under the eaves of my house have gone, back to sub Saharan Africa where they will spend the winter.

Every year their arrival announces the imminent arrival of summer, and their departure marks the beginning of autumn. 

Hand stitching these little birds has been a way to slow down and acknowledge the seasons changing. It's not a big thing, it hasn't required lots of time or a special trip somewhere, and I already had the fabric and the thread. But it's enough to recognize that autumn is here, and that nature operates in cycles. The house martins have left but they'll be back in the spring.

It's also what I hope the Wild Blossom Companion offers: gentle invitations to notice and mark the changing of the seasons.

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Under the eaves of my house there are house martin Under the eaves of my house there are house martins' nests. Every year in April,  the house martins' arrive, and all through the summer I hear them chattering in their nests and see them swooping about. 

The sound of those little birds chattering is part of the summer soundscape, until one day I realise that it's quiet, and they've gone. It's usually in late August or early September, and it's a sign that autumn is on its way.

One year they didn't arrive until June and I was worried. But they still came back! 

The house martins remind me that cycles and seasons often involve both beginning again and letting go.

To mark their leaving this year, I've been embroidering a little abstract piece that feels like birds in flight. It's a way of holding onto them even as they leave, and reminding myself that they will be back in the spring. 

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#wildblossomcompanion #slowstitching #gentlecreativity
I chose the theme of soft for September's Wild Blo I chose the theme of soft for September's Wild Blossom Companion. The light is more golden now and less harsh, there are fluffy seed heads and soft grasses, fluffy clouds and pets to cuddle.

September is that soft edge between summer and autumn. The colours are becoming muted, with more faded greens, ochre and dusty rose. 

We might reach for a favourite jumper in the freshness of early morning, or a blanket as the evenings draw in.

We're invited to walk softly as leaves start to fall.

What does softness mean to you, and how do you weave it into the creative bits of your life?

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#wildblossomlife #quietmoments #softtextures #slowingdownforcreatives
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