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Knotwork Swirls

When my order of Colour Streams variegated threads arrived, I absolutely needed to stitch something with them – and that’s how this design came to be!


Knotwork Swirls

Using Colour Streams’ Marrakesh I started this design with pretty swirls and then framed them with Celtic knotwork. I love knotwork, including it in my designs feels like an expression of my Scottish ancestry.

The framing is simple, but striking. I covered cardboard with fabric and attached the stitched piece with double-sided tape. The design would also make a lovely card, or a pretty pillow.

If you’d like to stitch Knotwork Swirls, it’s in my Etsy Shop.

I’ve more threads from that order that are calling me…

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Farewell Farm, Hello Sea

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Petite Biscornu

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Blackwork in History

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Flutterby Gardens

One of my favorite things to do is to watch happy bees and butterflies flutter among my flowers. I’ve been stitching some happy buzzing bees, darting dragonflies and flitting butterflies. It all started with a Mandela design … then continued with some scissor fobs – which also make excellent key fobs, and thingamabob keepers. I’ve…

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Castles, Coos and Kirkyards (and squirrels)

Nessie is stitched up, tassel on! I found this cute little cross stitch kit while shopping in the old tartan-weaving-mill-turned-gift-shop that is on the Royal Mile below Edinburgh castle. I promised in my last post to share some photos from my trip to Scotland. I asked to see castles and we saw many! (there’s never…

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Time Flies When You Are Having Fun!

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Fall Finishes

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