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    Woven Wheel Stitch: Hand Embroidery

    February 14, 2017June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
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    Woven Wheel Stitch One of the lovely things about embroidering by hand is that you can get all sorts of different textures that you just can’t if you use the sewing machine. Woven wheel stitch is a raised stitch and it adds a little bit of a 3D…

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    How to Print Onto Fabric With and Without Freezer Paper

    February 10, 2017June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    How to Print Onto Fabric With and Without Freezer Paper I’m on a bit of an embroidery thing at the moment, and one of the things that I’ve wanted to find out is how to print onto fabric. There are several ways of transferring embroidery designs onto fabric,…

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    How To Sew Lazy Daisy Stitch

    February 7, 2017June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
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    How To Sew Lazy Daisy Stitch This post contains affiliate links. As the name suggests, lazy daisy stitch is useful for when you want to embroider the petals of flowers. It’s a stitch you often see on vintage table cloths where flowers have been embroidered by hand. They…

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    Cookie Cutter Fabric Christmas Decorations

    November 13, 2014December 9, 2014 Living a Creative Life
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    One of the things I am finding out as I am making fabric Christmas decorations is how great they are for using up scraps! I actually haven’t needed to buy fabric or anything else to make any of these, I’veย used stuff I already had, fabric, ribbon and buttons….

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    An Autumn Felted Picture Part 2

    October 9, 2014March 23, 2016 Living a Creative Life

    Last week I decided it was time to start autumning things up a bit and also time to have another go at wet felting, so I embarked on an autumn felted picture. I used the woolly tufts that were in suitably autumnal colours and this was the result!…

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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 ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ

What is in your hands?

#wildblossomlife #spring #blossom #tendwhatmatters #gentlerhythms
Out looking for signs of spring ๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒž They are ever Out looking for signs of spring ๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒž

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 ๐Ÿ’–๐Ÿฆโ€โฌ›

#creativelife #wildblossomlife #norfolk #spring #noticing
Doing something creative can be a way to express h Doing something creative can be a way to express how nature fills us with inspiration, how we can't help but let it overflow into things we make, or paint or draw.

It can also be a way to notice what is there. It's so easy to rush through life  without really seeing, for things to become so familiar that even when we slow down, life's distractions stop us paying close attention to all the beautiful things that are there for us to see. There is so much beauty in the natural world, and so much peace to be found in not just spending time in nature, but leaving the distractions behind, parking the worries and putting our phones in our pockets, and being fully present.

Drawing, or painting, or even making some kind of abstract stitched thing requires us to really look. To notice the different shapes of the petals, and the tiny shadows and the little lines. How it is slightly more pink at the edges. How the centre of the flower is green, not pink. 

The drawing is the result of what we see. Whether or not somebody else would think it is good is not the point. It's about what you see, what you notice, and how that travels from your brain, through your arm and out onto a piece of paper, and how now that perfect little thing is there in your brain. Whatever else is going on, there is cherry blossom ๐ŸŒธ ๐ŸŒธ ๐ŸŒธ 

#creativelife #wildblossomlife #inspiredbynature #blossom #spring
Colour schemes for March ๐Ÿ’ฎ๐Ÿƒ๐ŸŒผ๐ŸŒž๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒฆ๏ธ I never get tire Colour schemes for March ๐Ÿ’ฎ๐Ÿƒ๐ŸŒผ๐ŸŒž๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒฆ๏ธ

I never get tired of seeing fields full of daffodils.

Blossom, so much of it this year ๐Ÿ’–

The view across the river in King's Lynn. 

Daffodils again

More blossom

#creativelife #wildblossomlife #springcolourpalettes #March #norfolk
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