June 21, 2014

The next project in my quest to add colour to everything in my room is this cute marbled picture frame DIY! I actually bought these frames thinking that I would decorate them with a tiled mosaic, but that proved to be too difficult. I'm glad I marbled them instead though because this project is easier, cheaper, quicker and filled with just as much colour!
You will need: A container to dunk your frames
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September 27, 2013

The third pattern that I've stitched for the Autumn Stitching Club is this cute little flower-pot. This is my favourite pattern so far - I love the texture of the stitched flowers! This pattern has made me excited to try some bigger and more intricate embroidery patterns. I think I prefer the way they look with more stitches, although it's satisfying being able to complete one pattern in an hour or
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September 9, 2013

I've signed up to Wild Olive's Autumm Stitching Club, and I'm so excited to learn how to embroider! I'll be using her embroidery basics page to learn. Each week I get emailed a pattern, and the first week was this adorable scarecrow. He's a little wonky, but not bad for a first attempt, what do you think?
At the end of autum I'll have a collection of embroidered patterns that I can sew together
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