November 25, 2013

Pattern eleven of Wild Olive's Autumn Stitching Club is this cute smiley leaf! Colourful leaves are probably one of my favourite things about autumn, although they are looking a little more soggy and a little less crisp at the moment. I don't think it's autumn anymore!
I only have two more of these patterns to stitch until they become a cushion cover. At the moment, I stitch these in front of Homeland
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Posted in Autumn Stitching Club, Sewing | Tagged art, autumn, autumn stitching club, craft, cute, DIY, embroidery, handmade, homemamde, leaf, sewing, smiley, stitching, wild olive |
November 18, 2013

My latest embroidered pattern for the autumn stitching club is this gourd! I'll be honest with you, I don't really know what a gourd is. Is it like a funny shaped courgette? Me and James once bought a bitter gourd from the exotic vegetable section in Morrisons and used it in a curry - it was pretty gross but we could have been cooking it wrong!
I can't believe I only have two more patterns to go
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Posted in Autumn Stitching Club, Sewing | Tagged autumn, autumn stitching club, craft, cute, DIY, embroidery, gourd, handmade, homemade, sewing, smiley, stitching, wild olive |
November 14, 2013

The first time I ever tried a piece of pumpkin pie was this autumn! You can't be a real blogger unless you love pumpkin, right? I made a couple of pumpkin pies, and although I haven't got the recipe right yet, they were pretty tasty :) I just wish shops sold pumpkins in the UK for longer than two weeks in October. Anyway, here is my third pumpkin pie of the season, but this time it's embroidered. This
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Posted in Autumn Stitching Club, Sewing | Tagged autumn, autumn stitching club, craft, cushion, DIY, embroidery, fall, pattern, pumpkin, pumpkin pie, stitching, wild olive |
November 9, 2013

It was my Dad's birthday at the start of the month, and he is so difficult to buy for. Instead of buying him something he doesn't want or need, I decided to stitch a picture of our bunny Archie for him. It was a time-consuming project but not a difficult one. If you like the idea you could follow these steps to make an embroidered picture of anything - but pictures of pets are the best!
I looked
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Posted in DIY, Sewing | Tagged Archie, art, birthday present, bunny, craft, embroidery, handmade, homemade, pet, picture, rabbit, rabbit embroidery, stitching, textiles |
November 5, 2013

I like the title of my monthly round-up posts to have some alliteration but there are no "goodbye" phrases which start with O. I tried to think of a good title, I really did! Anyway, October has ended! (A while ago now I know, but I've been busy catching up on sleep.) It was a good month including my favourite holiday, Halloween! Here's what I've been up to this month.
I shared a lot of my outfits
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Posted in Monthly Recap | Tagged bat costume, embroidery, halloween, halloween decorations, jessthetics, monthly recap, monthly round up, october, summary, what i wore |