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It worked!
Work in progress (yes, it is as sticky and clumpy and hard to apply delicately as it looks): Design complete and henna dry, now I’ve just got to wait a couple of hours: And the end result: That was after 2.5 hours (I was aiming for 3, but I forgot the number one rule of…
Next
Having finally finished off a few works-in-progress from the stash, I decided to reward myself with starting something new – a kit MrPloppy gave me for Christmas years ago, which is huge and ambitious and will probably take me even more years to finish. But aren’t the colours pretty? I didn’t actually get much stitching…
The pink butterfly
It took me most of yesterday and long into the night, but I managed to get most of the embroidery done that I wanted to add to the pink butterfly for my second entry to Tartankiwi’s Butterfly Challenge (and, yes, if you’re wondering Tartankiwi, all that pink is a blatant attempt to win your Rascal’s…
The chickens have landed
hich means I can finally reveal the secret project I mentioned ages ago. In fact, it was two secret projects. Or possibly just two iterations of the same secret project. When browsing the internets looking for patterns to feed my new paper-piecing obsession, I came across a lovely chicken pattern that was just crying out…

A tentative hello
Well, this is all new and not-quite-shiny-yet, isn’t it? I’m not sure whether I want to dive into playing with css and theme customisation, or if I should just bow to the inevitability that I’m not likely to keep up sort of any regular posting anyway, so the more sensible path would be to just…
All the colours
An exciting wee parcel waiting for me in the letterbox when I got home tonight (luckily well-wrapped, so it survived the day’s rain/hail/sleet/general horribleness of weather) – a pack of “charm squares” (little sample-sized pieces of fabric – no idea why they’re called charm squares, but it seems to be the standard term in quilting…