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Hello everyone Happy New Year, I hope you had a wonderful festive season? It is 2021, and although the challenges of 2020 have transformed the ways we live, work, socialise, and move around the world, our common love of embroidery remains and sustains us as we adapt to our new normal. Distance learning classes In… Continue reading Happy New Year

Wishing you all a Happy and peaceful Christmas. Thank you for all your love, support, and friendship this year and always. Will be taking some time out to spend with my family and see you back in January! Till next time wherever you are in the world, keep smiling and happy stitching. Trish

Hello everyone This week we are going to assemble the mini journal, exciting! In case you missed the original posts for the mini journal you can find all the patterns, instructions for assembly and patterns for cutting out the pages and cover here. COMPLETED PAGES By now you should have 12 pages with an embroidered… Continue reading Construction of mini journal

Hello everyone Hope you are well? Its that time of year again, and I think most of us will be doing our shopping online this year? There are two weeks left before the shop closes for the Festive season and you will find some season specials and new items in the shop: Monochrome Embroidery Kits… Continue reading Online Christmas Shopping

Hello everyone I hope you are keeping well? I have been working on some new designs and ordering in new stock, so it has been a busy time. My mind is in creative mode which is not always a good thing for my family who suffer the consequences such as forgetting I have put the… Continue reading Embroidery Kits

Hello everyone Hope this finds you well? This week I have two things to share with you, the first is my "O, Tannenbaum" project featured on the front cover of Inspirations magazine and the second is an update on the mini journal construction. Inspirations magazine As most of you already know, Inspirations is the world’s… Continue reading O Christmas Tree

Hello everyone This week we continue stitching project 12 of the mini journal. If you have missed any of the previous posts you can find them here, or by scrolling down to see previous posts: Stitch along part one Stitch along part two Stitch along part three Projects 1 - 11 for the mini journal.… Continue reading Stitch along part four

Hello everyone This week we continue stitching project 12 of the mini journal. If you have missed any of the previous posts you can find them here, or by scrolling down to previous posts: Stitch along part one Stitch along part two Here is the flower and outlines diagram as a reminder from last week.… Continue reading Stitch along part three

Hello everyone This week I have the great pleasure of introducing GIULIANA RICAMA. This is a beautiful Italian needlework magazine but now available in English! I first met the lovely Nicoletta and her partner in 2017 on a trip to Verona, Italy where I did a one day workshop. The Italian ladies were so welcoming… Continue reading GIULIANA RICAMA