Story telling through fabric art.
Homespun Stitchworks
by Sarah Hawkings
1M ago
  Winter is the time to cherish a cosy chair with slow stitching and a warm drink. Hello and welcome to a long overdue blog update please make yourself a warm drink and cosy up in your favourite spot and settle down for a vintage update, so pleased you can join me. I am so sorry it has been so long coming, what with life and Christmas I honestly do not know where the weeks have gone to turn into months.  Welcome to you all and I wish you a very happy and healthy New Year.  Lots of exciting things are  hopefully happening this year and so It would be so helpful to ..read more
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October hand stitching
Homespun Stitchworks
by Sarah Hawkings
4M ago
  Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets;  golden colours on the lawns, ,nature's trick or treat! Rusty Fischer. Hello  you are most welcome and so lovely that you are here to listen to my whimsical rambles.  Tales of stitchery, fabrics and Threads of time studio.   Adventures, wanders by the river Avon and all the wonderful things that Autumn brings.  I hope you have a warm drink in hand and a cosy corner to snuggle into, I have a wonderful hot chocolate here with pumpkin spice and pumpkin marsh mellows  ... let the ramblings ..read more
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Needles threaded with Autumn magic.
Homespun Stitchworks
by Sarah Hawkings
4M ago
  Autumn leaves are little gifts falling from the sky, making everything look magical. unknown Hello everyone, its lovely that you are here and have come to join me.  Why not get a warm drink, pick a comfy chair and cosy down. I have my warm drink  .... the vintage  whimsy ramble is about to begin. Warm and sunny Autumn days have been so perfect here in beautiful Dorset, the Jurassic Coast is stunning  every season. The Summer months it is crowded but Autumn when schools go back but we still have the warmth is perfect to me. Wandering along coastal paths taki ..read more
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And so it begins, Autumn days and little stitches.
Homespun Stitchworks
by Sarah Hawkings
5M ago
  And so the story begins, new projects, falling leaves and the smell of open fires in the air. Sarah Hawkings 2024 Tiny little stitches and ideas jumping around in my mind, thoughts, designs and stories contained with delicious fabric and linens.  Happy slow stitch days stretch before me and watching the birds eating the food I have popped out for them.  Robins visiting along with Mr and Mrs blackbird and of course Russel Crow who is even more hungrier it seems as the Season changes over. only this time he has company Mrs Crow, now named Sheryl and they have Bab ..read more
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Threads of time with Autumn hues.
Homespun Stitchworks
by Sarah Hawkings
5M ago
  A fallen leaf is nothing more than  a Summer's  wave goodbye. unknown I have been noticing subtle differences in colours, Autumn is here in Dorset and there is a different smell in the air, no longer roses and lavenders but a crispness is there.  The beauty of the odd leaf now dancing to the ground and spider webs visible with morning dew.   Earlier this year I purchased some wonderful threads on Etsy that have been curated for Autumn and blackberries, I have waited until now to do a design to use them and I am in the middle of the design. I keep lo ..read more
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September slow stitches.
Homespun Stitchworks
by Sarah Hawkings
5M ago
  By all these lovely tokens September days are here.   With Summer's best of weather and Autumn's best of cheer. Helen Hunt Jackson. Welcome September, where has this year gone? Autumn is my favourite month as you all know but still not ready for the nights to draw in and be dark by 4pm so I am really making the most of the next few weeks.  September I feel is the in between month where we can still have lovely warm weather but you have a feel of Autumn  and you can smell it in the air, and so here at Thimble cottage the season is changing in the cottag ..read more
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Old cloth and soulful stitches.
Homespun Stitchworks
by Sarah Hawkings
6M ago
  Old cloth with new purpose, mending my soul with each stitch.   My memories carefully added to the heart of my creations. Stitch by soulful stitch. Sarah Hawkings 2024 When sorting through precious bits of gorgeous antique linens and cloth it is almost meditative and the feel and touch of each piece brings my imagination to go really quiet wild.  Who touched this, who stitched this by candlelight or if the piece is a little later say through the Great War and was the lady thinking of her husband or beau and of their safety and well being, trying to keep busy th ..read more
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Summer mindful sewing joy.
Homespun Stitchworks
by Sarah Hawkings
6M ago
  I know a bank where the wild thyme blows. Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows. Quiet over canopied with luscious woodbine with sweet musk roses with eglantine. William Shakespeare - Midsummers Night Dream. Mindful quiet sewing being done on these beautiful Summer days really is a joy.  Often when I stitch in the garden my mind wanders to my dear Mum.  I keep thinking she would have loved Thimble Cottage and being in my studio.  My Mum loved ironing ( yes I know, I did not take after her unless its beautiful fabrics!!) and because my Mum had alzhei ..read more
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Hand stitching, wild flowers and seaweed.
Homespun Stitchworks
by Sarah Hawkings
6M ago
  May your life be like a wildflower growing  freely in the beauty and joy of each day. Native American proverb. We here in England and especially along the Jurassic coast line near where I live have had some really stunning Summer days and really hot for here some 30 degrees on some days and then the next day it can be rainy, cold and almost Winter and well that is England.  On the cold days I will put candles on and fairy lights and cosy down with my hand sewing and on the really beautiful Summer days I can be found either sat in my little garden or wandering down ..read more
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Textile travels their tales and tales of Beatrix Potter at Hill Top Farm.
Homespun Stitchworks
by Sarah Hawkings
6M ago
  The wonder of textile travel amazes me.  I have purchased before now, pieces of very beautiful old linen from France or other European countries from a vintage fair all over our English counties salvaged, sorted and saved by others. Pieces of quilts that have been stitched here in England and ended up in Canada or America possibly brought over to other countries on large ships when pilgrims landed on other shores, only to come back again to their country of origin and being sold here a hundred or so years later. In my imagination they have gathered memories and stories along the ..read more
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