Quilt-As-You-Go Mug Rug Tutorial!

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Hi everyone!

What a busy weekend it has been. A special hello goes out to all my new followers from all corners of the globe Smile It has been wonderful to welcome you to my Mystery Blackwork Stitch Along (SAL) and the photographs of your beautiful work which I’ve received so far, can now be seen in the gallery here. I’ll update the gallery as I receive your new photo’s.

If you like what you see there, take a peek at the gallery of another SAL organised by my dear friend Claire. She



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Mystery Blackwork SAL Gallery

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Here are the “Works in Progress” photos from the Stitch Along so far. If you are stitching along, please send me a photo by email (address on the right) and I’ll include it in the gallery :-)

If you’ve missed the first part and would like to stitch along with us, you can find it here. You can join the group at any time.

Starting with mine :-)

Stage 1

Alison

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Angela



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Mystery Blackwork Stitch Along Part 1

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Welcome to Part 1 of my Mystery Blackwork SAL :-)

My dear friend Claire introduced me to blackwork a few months ago and I’ve been very happily stitching along with her. Several of my regular readers will have stitched along too!

I have now charted my own design to share with all of you over the next few weeks and Claire has very kindly tested the complete chart. Of course, she has been sworn to secrecy, because this is a “Mystery” SAL. New stages will be released every Friday.

This is a small square project, only 62 stitches



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Finish number 12 in 2013!

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Hi Everyone :-)

The SAL over at Claire’s blog  is now finished. I thought you might like to see my completed stitching which is actually “finish number 12″ for 2013! I was going to use different coloured threads, as indicated on the chart, but then decided to play safe with just pale turquoise. I’m pleased with the result and I’ll definitely make this design again. There is a bit of extra interest created by the cross stitches.

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These small blackwork projects are ideal for picking up when you only have a few



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Slowly but surely….

11 May 2013 | Other RSS posts by

Hello everyone,

Thanks to all of you who have already expressed interest in joining the Mystery Blackwork SAL. You have only 6 days to gather a few items from your stash if you want to start on Friday. See here for more details of what you will need. I do hope you will stitch along with us :-)

It’s been a busy week for me so I haven’t been able to do any patchwork or quilting for a few days. However, I have done some more of the Narrow Boat cross stitch.

Here is where I was



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Three for the price of one…..sounds good to me!

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Happy Sunday everyone!

Without further ado, I really need to welcome all my new followers this week, many of whom have found my blog via Claire, my wonderful cross-stitch friend in France. I know you are all waiting for the Mystery Stitch Along and I hope you can wait patiently for just a few more days :-) I’m very excited about it as I’ve never organised a SAL before and I know there are already several people signed up. Hopefully, Claire will correct me if I make mistakes :-)

The SAL will



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Something to look forward to…..it’s a mystery!

27 Apr 2013 | Other RSS posts by

Happy weekend everyone!

Where did that week go? I hope you are all well and happy and you are getting lots of lovely sunshine as we are, here in the UK.

I have a couple of small finishes to share with you this week. You may remember my Strawberries and Cream post here. I’ve now finished the two table toppers. The larger quilt top will have to wait a little longer :-)

First up is the scrappy one.

ImageI enjoyed experimenting with the free motion quilting.

ImageHere’s more



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Hello Scotland!

20 Apr 2013 | Other RSS posts by

Hi everyone, especially if you are from Scotland :-)

I just saw this from my garden and thought of you!

What a beautiful day. I hope it is wonderful where you are too :-)

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Avis x




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Starry, starry, night…..paint your palette blue and purple!

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Hello everyone!

I hope you are all having a wonderful crafty time. Welcome to my new followers and all the lovely crafting people across the globe :-)

I have finally plucked up the courage to quilt a large quilt top which has been waiting in my box for almost two years. I think this was the third top I ever pieced. The fabrics screamed at me in the shop. I just had to buy them!

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I quilted it with a surfy sea sort of pattern as the colours and prints are very watery.



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Next up, the teal version!

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Hello to all my lovely fellow bloggers and readers from all around the world. Isn’t the world wide web wonderful for linking us all together?

My pinwheel bug has mutated…..into the Trip Around the World Bargellow-ish bug. It’s quite a serious illness which makes people repeat things.

It’s quite a serious illness which makes people repeat…….. ha-ha only joking ;-)

As you’ve already seen two of these here and here, I won’t comment much further. This version is just two of the previous ones side by side. I quite like the effect.



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