Better late than never

I have pretty much resigned myself to the fact that I am going to be a rather sporadic blog writer, so many thanks in advance to anyone who is still reading
I noticed that I need to catch up with posting some photos that I have mentioned in previous posts, so here goes.
First of [...]

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Green Circles

One of the postcard swap groups I belong to, a spin off from Stitchin Fingers had a green themed swap before Christmas.  Unfortunately, the card I sent to my swap partner in Australia never turned up.  Last week I sent off a new card for her along with a few little goodies to make up [...]

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Tast Week Two

Well, only a day late so I’m fairly happy. Here is my buttonhole sampler:

I had problems getting motivated with this one, but then I decided to let myself doodle and ended up with the flowers and everything else went fine from there. There are a few mistakes here and there but overall I’m [...]

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Fabric postcard swap

This lovely hand felted postcard arrived this morning from Tricia Cook:

And this is the postcard I sent her, which she has said some extremely nice things about here.

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Stitchin Fingers: TAST Re-run

I think I have mentioned some of the lovely people I have met in the Stitchin Fingers community but I don’t think I have actually said anything about the place itself.
Stitchin Fingers is a new online community for anyone interested in textiles, set up by the multi-talented Sharon B of In a minute ago.  [...]

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Belated update: More ATCs and Postcards

Apologies for not updating for a while. I have a feeling my posting habits are going to be a bit like buses i.e. none for ages and then three at once.
Anyway, the first update is about ATCs and Postcards. The cards I chose from Susan Lenz’s Cyber Fyber swap have arrived:

They look much [...]

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ATC Swaps

I would like to show you the lovely ATCs I received yesterday from Doreen and her granddaughter Ebony.
This is Doreen’s beautiful creation of needlefelt and hand stitched embellishments:

And this lovely card is from the eight year old Ebony:

I think there could be some serious talent forming here. Thank you very much Ebony and Doreen, [...]

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A lucky find and an Award

I had a really good day today.
We went out for lunch with some friends and afterwards visited a nearby second hand bookshop. It’s one of my favourite shops as it has a good needlework section and today did not disappoint. I managed to pick up a pristine copy of Constance Howard’s “Inspiration [...]

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Fabric Postcards and ATCs

I am really excited.
I have only recently started making fabric postcards and artists trading cards but already I have a swap arranged with a lovely lady in Australia (Hi Doreen!)  and a postcard and atc are going to be in Susan Lenz’s Cyber Fyber exhibition in America next year.  How Cool is that?  I’ll post [...]

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Inspiration

A little later than promised, here is the source photo for the piece I showed you here

I took this picture of one of the groynes at Great Yarmouth near the harbour, I just loved the colours in the wood. I have some more pictures from that day which I might do something with later [...]

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