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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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    Ideas For Bunting Embroidery

    March 20, 2019June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
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    Challenge 2 for 2019 The Year of Bunting is to sew some bunting embroidery. The post that explains the challenge is here. If you or the people you live with don’t want bunting hanging up everywhere, or if you already have a lot hanging up, this is a…

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    DIY Embroidered Christmas Star

    December 19, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    DIY Embroidered Christmas Star When I was younger, I did a lot of Christmas crafting. I used to make cards and decorations and bake stuff. Then I had kids and everything changed! I’d plan to make lots of things, then feel frustrated and annoyed that I hadn’t managed…

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    Christmas Embroidery Project With a Free Pattern!

    September 28, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
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    Christmas Embroidery Project Although I love Christmas and making things for Christmas, over the last few years I’ve given up on the idea of making masses of stuff specifically for Christmas. It’s just too busy! And it has a habit of sneaking up on me. I know the…

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    Christmas Embroidery Hoop

    September 22, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
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    Christmas Embroidery Hoop Last month I was invited to contribute to a series of posts on All Free Sewing for National Sewing Month. One of the suggestions was sewing for Christmas and, as it had been a long time since I’d made anything Christmassy, I decided to hatch…

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    Cherry Blossom Embroidery Tutorial

    February 2, 2018September 22, 2023 Blog
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    Cherry Blossom Embroidery Tutorial Who doesn’t love cherry blossom? Although I love winter, I’m looking forward to spring now. I spotted a daffodil last week, and I’ll be keeping a close eye on the cherry trees round the corner from my house! For a few weeks every year,…

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Did you ever do butterfly paintings as a child? T Did you ever do butterfly paintings as a child?

The theme in April's Wild Blossom Companion is reflections. Sometimes our hands want to do something creative but we don't know what, and the Wild Blossom Companion has ideas of things to do within a theme.

I started off combining butterfly paintings with landscapes, and as I often find with anything literal I felt a bit anxious about whether what I was doing was any good. But that's kind of not the point! It's supposed to be playful exploration, not something that makes stress and anxiety worse! Plus the acrylic paint stuck on one of them and the paper tore.

So I gave that up and just blobbed paint onto the paper instead.

I think they look more like bunches of flowers then butterflies πŸ’what do you think?

And yes, I somehow managed to forget that phone needed to be the other way round! 🀦🀷πŸ€ͺ

#creativelife #painting #printing #spring #flowers
Colour schemes for April πŸŒΈπŸŒ±πŸ’– April is a pink mont Colour schemes for April πŸŒΈπŸŒ±πŸ’–

April is a pink month, with  cherry and apple  blossom. There are also lots of new leaves, and spring sunlight makes them appear even greener 🌱

#wildblossomlife #colourschemes #colourpalettes #springcolours #blossom
I was inspired by a recent email post thingy from I was inspired by a recent email post thingy from Alison from @brocantehome, in which she says that if there is ever any doubt, to look at our hands, see what is in them and tend to that. 

There is a lot in the world that is bad. Sometimes there are things closer that are not that great either. We're encouraged to be inspired by people who do huge things, fly to the moon and whatnot, but there is a lot to be said for holding onto the knowledge that our grandmothers and great grandmothers lived through difficult times, in the middle of them, and still looked after their families, cooked meals and washed up, grew tomatoes, made doctors' appointments, wrote in their diaries, drew, painted, knitted. Admired the flowers in their neighbour's garden. Marvelled at the blossom, or the autumn leaves. Hoped it would rain, or stop raining. At the same time as worrying about loved ones far away. Not because one mattered more than the other, but because they both did.

In my hands today, home education for my dyslexic boy, cats, meals, laundry and washing up. Peculiar things to make out of pieces of old shoe for my textiles degree. And blossom, lots of it 🌸🌸🌸

What is in your hands?

#wildblossomlife #spring #blossom #tendwhatmatters #gentlerhythms
Out looking for signs of spring 🌱🌸🌞 They are ever Out looking for signs of spring 🌱🌸🌞

They are everywhere now. The hedgerows are coming green. There is lots of blossom. New buds are appearing on the trees and starting to open. The sun was warm today and the birds were singing πŸ’–πŸ¦β€β¬›

#creativelife #wildblossomlife #norfolk #spring #noticing
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