100 Day Project Fabric Collages
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by Carina
1M ago
The 100 Day Project started on Sunday! I’m taking part in it again this year. :-) My project this year is to make a daily fabric collage using all those little fabric scraps that aren’t big enough for sewing together to make quilt blocks, for example. But they can be cut into shapes and appliquéd to a background. So that’s what I’m going to do. I’m very excited, it’s just the sort of thing I love to do. :-) Most of what I make is probably going to be flowers but I’m hoping to add some birds, I started the project with that bird below. And maybe some other animals, who know. I’m just going to ..read more
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New Pattern: Wheel of The Year 2023
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by Carina
1M ago
I’ve forgotten to tell you about the finished Wheel of The Year 2023 project. I love the end result very much. So many happy colours, so many happy hours of stitching. :-) And I hadn’t quite planned it that but the pattern turned into a stitch sampler. I think it ended with 24 different stitches. I always enjoy playing with more stitches and not just sticking with my old standbys. Some of them I pushed slightly beyond how they are normally used and that was quite fun. The pattern for Wheel of The Year 2023 is available in my shop. With the pattern you also get access to a video for each motif ..read more
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Impromptu Visit to Copenhagen
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by Carina
1M ago
Maybe you heard that the Danish Queen abdicated and so there is now a new king in Denmark? Less than a week before the proclamation day* of the new king I suddenly felt like I needed to be in Denmark for that. Not so much for the proclamation but because of the, now retired, Queen. I wanted to be there to celebrate her, since she has abdicated and so she is still alive. Contrary to how the previous monarch is usually dead when a new one is proclaimed… So we could…I dunno… say thank you to her. So it was a mad dash to find some (luckily) cheap plane tickets and a hotel to stay in. My mum decid ..read more
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Knitting Can Only Get Better
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by Carina
2M ago
For several years, at least since 2019, I’ve had ‘get better at knitting’ on my goals list for the year. So far I have not got better at knitting. Because ‘get better at knitting’ is too big, too unspecific. So I never even got started on getting better. I was just doing the occasional stockinette stitch project with no real purpose. My knitting is so basic, and in the past I have done it so infrequently, that I even have to look up how to cast off whenever I do finish a knitted project. Imagine me rolling my eyes. :-D There is room for improvement! For the past couple of months I have been ..read more
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Hexagon Goals. Hexagoals.
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by Carina
3M ago
In case you were wondering how it’s going with my Denyse Schmidt fabrics hexagon project: it’s going pretty well! The other day I laid out all the hexagons I’ve made, to get an idea of the colour distribution. It’s fun to see them all like this! It gives a bit of an idea of what the quilt could look like. I have an idea for how I want to put the hexagons together, I hope it works. But I’m not going to start thinking seriously about that for quite a while. I’ve been thinking about why I never really got anywhere with this project, when I originally started it, back in 2013. And I think partial ..read more
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Happy Winter Solstice
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by Carina
3M ago
The Wheel of The Year keeps turning and now we are back at the Winter Solstice. The motif in my 2023 Wheel embroidery is almost finished. It will be so lovely to see the whole thing completed. I can already imagine it but you never get the full effect until it is completely done and the tracing pen is rinsed off. I have enjoyed working on this a lot this past year. Picking stitch and colour combinations. It is basically a stitch sampler. I haven’t counted them but there are quite a lot of different stitches in this. Which wasn’t really my original plan. But you know I love a stitch sampler so ..read more
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Trying Tatreez Embroidery
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by Carina
3M ago
A cross stitch project I started a little while ago. Or rather, a little test because I didn’t have a piece of cross stitch suitable fabric that is large enough. I’ll buy that in the new year so I can stitch this properly. It is a Palestinian Tatreez pattern from Min Amanne. It is called Cypress Trees and Stars. It is absolutely gorgeous. In the past, I have not had great results with cross stitch patterns, I usually count wrong somewhere and then it ends up in a mess. But I have really enjoyed what I have stitched of this little sample piece so far. Maybe I can do it without messing it up ..read more
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Pattern on Sale: Alphabet Stitch Sampler
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by Carina
3M ago
The Alphabet Stitch Sampler pattern is on sale at the moment, 25% off and you don’t need a code! I loved making this sampler and it is the perfect ‘do one per day’ because it has 31 different stitches. Just the thing if your New Year’s resolution is ‘learn more embroidery stitches’. Over on YouTube I have shared tutorials for all the stitches used in the sampler. Filming all the tutorials of course meant starting another sampler which I have also enjoyed working on. Although it’s been put to one side for the moment. Hopefully, I can get back to it soon ..read more
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Recipe: Vegan Lussekatter – Saffron Lucia Buns
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by Carina
3M ago
For several years I have had a new tradition: for breakfast on December 13th, St Lucia’s day, I make these Swedish saffron buns called lussekatter. They are really delicious. And the most delightful yellow colour! Maybe you would like to try them too? :-) Makes 16 buns Ingredients:  75 grams vegan butter or margarine (I use Naturli’ block) 250 ml vegan milk (plus a bit extra for brushing) 4 grams dry yeast (check on the packet if it needs to be reactivated first) 1/4 tsp salt 85 grams sugar 0.5 grams of saffron* powder (use strands if powder is not available) 410 grams of flour (a bit ex ..read more
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Appliqué Protests
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by Carina
5M ago
I have been making these…protest appliqués over the past few months. I have ideas for many more. Living in Tory Britain leaves us with plenty to protest against… I am not sure what to do with them all. I have a vague plan to make a bunch more, sew them all together to make a quilt and send that to the Festival of Quilts next year. Not sure if they would display it. It feels like a place where there are quite a lot of Tory voting ladies… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ What would you do with these? And what would you write if you made one? When I share these on Instagram I use the hashtag RageStitching. ‘Coz I’m an ..read more
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