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A Stitching Catch Up
Last Saturday I spent the day catching up with my dear stitching friends. It had been awhile since our last get together and it was really great to be able to share my new work space with the ladies....
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Some Recent Stitching Finishes
Finally some finished stitching to share - here are some of the little projects I've stitched on over the winter months.Teresa Kogut - Dear Santa, from July's Patreon club, stitched on Fox & Rabbit...
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Bits and Bobs
Almost the end of another month and that means spring is almost here. We even had a spring like day on Saturday, the weather was lovely, which meant after the usual housework, catching up with washing...
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A Spring Market
Spring time here in Central Hawkes Bay means its Spring Fling time, an annual Spring Festival with different events held over the next few months. This year's festival kicked off on Saturday with a...
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Fully Finished x 3
It was my good friend Sonia's birthday recently and when I spotted some new Lynette Anderson fabrics in my local sewing shop I thought they'd be a perfect match for this Little House Needleworks...
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Make Life Beautiful
Hello friends, the end of another week already and I have another little finish to share this morning, the 2022 Collector's Heart by Heart in Hand. The linen and tiny buttons were included with the...
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Ornament Finishes x 4
Lately I've been working on getting a pile of stitched ornaments from earlier this year fully finished. Even if it's just a half hour at a time at my sewing machine, I'm slowly making good...
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More ornament finishes & end of September
Hello friends, I have two more ornaments fully finished, both stitched earlier in the year.You know Dasher, which is a freebie design by Helen D, the Eastcoast Crafter and can be found on this page,...
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Forgotten World Tour
We're back from our little break away and what a fabulous time we had! We left for our trip on Thursday morning with our friends, via Taupo and Turangi. It was a beautiful day and Lake Taupo was...
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Catching Up
It's been a few weeks since my last post and the weeks are just rolling on by so quickly, and it's now the end of October, crazy! I thought I'd do a little round up of what has been happening around...
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All the Stitching
Lots of stitching happening here lately - as well as my own projects, I've been stitching away on ornaments and a few gifts for Christmas and birthday presents. I'd really like to get a few things...
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First Beach trip of the season
Last Friday after work, even though it was raining, we headed out in our campervan to Pourere Beach, 40 minutes from home. It continued to rain on and off again all Friday evening but when we got up on...
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2023 Collector's Heart
This was a fun design to stitch, the 2023 Collector's Heart by Heart in Hand.I used the fabric, 32ct count Heartland linen by Picture this Plus, and thread, Leather Bound by Cottage Garden Threads,...
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Stitching finishes, new stash and other news
After the past few weekends away in our campervan (still need to share photos from last weekend), it was lovely to be at home this past weekend, catching up on jobs around the house, getting lots of...
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Another beach weekend
Our plans to head out to the beach this coming weekend have been put on hold as it looks like we're in for another rainy weekend but that's ok as I'm planning to get some sewing done and more baking to...
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All the things
Hello friends, how quickly Friday has rolled around this week! It's Hannah's last day of school for 2023 so I'm heading to her final school assembly and prize giving later this morning. I now have only...
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December round up before a break
Hi friends, Merry Christmas to all! Later today I start my annual summer holidays so this will be my last post for awhile, possibly until mid to late January, so I wanted to take the time to thank each...
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Welcome to 2024 - a long over due catch up!
Happy 2024 to you - I hope you have had a great start to the year so far. I was planning to begin posting here again at the end of my summer holidays but unfortunately I ended up very sick for a week...
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Three Finishes - all Christmasy
Hello friendsat the start of my summer holidays, I picked out a couple of designs to kit up with the fabric and threads and get underway. Three of these are now finished:Primrose Cottage - Christmas...
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Time for a WIP Parade
Hello friends, recently I decided to get out all my projects and have an ironing session so I can share a WIP Parade. Loading up these photos, I've realised I didn't get a current progress pic of the...
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Weekend things
Hello friends, I hope you enjoyed your weekend. I spent a few hours on Saturday morning with a friend as we browsed a local market - there were over 60 stalls, lots of food vendors and entertainment....
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Welcome to the North Pole
Sorting out some photo files on my computer, I realised I hadn't share any photos of this cute design which I finished stitching at the end of December.Welcome to the North Pole by Primrose Cottage...
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A few finishes, family and sunflowers
Hello friendsI have a couple of finishes to show today, these were both stitched last year and I made them into ornaments last week. A Classic Christmas by Hands on Designs, stitched on 32 count...
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The Tiny Modernist Mystery Sampler
For the past few years I've signed up the Tiny Modernist's mystery Christmas Sampler. It starts on the 1st September each year with the first part of the chart being released, then parts 2, 3 and 4...
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Stitching this week and Family Catch Up
Hello friendsEven though I'm trying to stitch on projects already underway, I couldn't resist starting this chart by Teresa Kogut last week. It was given out to members of Teresa's Patreon club as it...
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