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pton stitchers are doing phenology wheels as a group project i was delighted when this was suggested as i ve been toying with the idea of stitching one for a couple of years a phenology wheel is a circular visual nature journal you can paint them stitch them create the picture however you wish i m stitching flowers and plants which are in the garden or on the back lane each month last time i posted about my wheel i had just finished the snowdrops for january well i m not much further on we ve just this week had wardrobes fitted in our bedroom for the first time so of course we had to completely empty the room so there s furniture everywhere bedding and clothes heaped up i m the chief decorator in this house so i repainted the walls hung wallpaper glossed the house is in chaos luckily the carpet goes down tomorrow so we can start finding a new home for everything and get back to normality yesterday evening i finally managed a little stitching on my wheel i decided to stitch catkins they were particularly lovely this year catkins are the petal less flowers of certain trees willow and hazel are most common down the back lane they are long dangly flowers apparently there are male and female catkins i didn t know that until just now they appear in february before the leaves usually hanging in twos or threes it s lovely to see them dancing in the breeze i decided to use french knots in a variegated greeny yellow i ve also another variegated which is slightly darker and more orange i might use that where the catkins overlap i m pleased with the way the catkin does looked rounded i ve not done much as you can see but at least i ve started the next sal post will be on may 3rd two days before i go on my big adventure interrailing round europe with my daughter i ve a lot to do in the next three weeks including trips to london to see friends visiting my daughter sorting out the garden never mind the house so i ll do my best to get this project up to date but i m not promising please follow the links to see what everyone else is stitching avis claire kathy margaret sunny megan deborah sharon daisy cathie linda marymargaret helen share this tweet print opens in new window print like loading posted in embroidery serendipity skipton stitchers stitch a long tagged catkins embroidery flowers gardening nature phenology wheel spring stitching flowers and grasses 15 comments harvest mice quilt posted on april 11 2026 by craftycreeky i ve just finished this wall hanging of harvest mice for my sewing room i actually started this in january last year as part of the declutter challenge i did the right hand side and then it just stayed on my design wall waiting for the other half when the declutter challenge came round again this year i knew what to do as my treat project the left hand side here it is a couple of weeks ago both sides machine embroidered it just needed quilting i d already chosen a thread for quilting the purple and gold thread you can see in the photo i felt it was too dark for the pale gold and light mauve areas so i also used a variegated pale gold thread they re both wonderfil threads which are nice and fine for this kind of quilting i mulled over how to quilt it for quite some time andrea the designer used a double flame shape but i felt i wanted something a bit easier it wasn t the quilt to try a new pattern on i decided in the end to do a fairly small meander i sandwiched the quilt with some 80 20 batting and backed it with a batik fabric which has a fine purple leaf design over a pale gold background i ve had it for several years in my stash i bought it on impulse as i loved the colours but it was always too busy for any quilt i tried it with the colours matched perfectly with this quilt and i even had just enough left for binding i started quilting with the darker thread meandering up and down the various spaces i overlapped a little onto the lighter blocks to help it to blend i then changed to the light gold variegated which has also got some very pale mauve in meandering over the lighter blocks i m really pleased how the two colour threads have worked out as you can t actually tell it all just blends together my free motion quilting is improving there is still a few wobbles when i ve lost the plot where to go but i m happy with it i bound it with the backing fabric a plain might have been better but it s on i remembered to put triangles in the top corners to catch the hanging pole in i hand stitched the binding down at my patchwork group it was a nice easy project to take along to stitch and chat here is my finished wall hanging it s going in my sewing room i just need to get a length of dowling i ve still quite a few kits to make from raggedy ruff designs so i need to keep going with them share this tweet print opens in new window print like loading posted in kits quilting raggedy ruff designs serendipity tagged crafts free motion quilting harvest mice quilt quilt quilting quilts raggedy ruff designs sewing 4 comments foragers journal posted on march 29 2026 by craftycreeky i ve started another monthly subscription this one is for a fabric book which is embroidered and then hand quilted it s by sarah edgar who has a company called pretty fabrics and trims this is the fourth journal she has stitched though i think she is now on her fifth or even sixth i liked the fact that i could see the whole book before i committed there s nothing worse than starting a stitch a long and then finding you don t really like it the theme of this book is foraging so there s a different plant featured on each page the designs are pre printed and the kit includes all the threads and fabrics we need to make it into a book january s page is nettle so there s a recipe for nettle tea not that i fancy trying it there s lots of nettles on the back lane which is good as they re an important food for caterpillers the words are all stitched with back stitch the plant is a mixture of satin fishbone and stem stitch with a few french knots i ve started february the plant of the month is gorse a prickly shrub apparently the little yellow flowers can be eaten raw in salads for example they can also be made into wine or infused in gin once these two pages are embroidered they are stitched together down one side and basted onto batting they are then quilted before putting back to back and binding with liberty cotton i m rejoining the hand quilt a long next month so hopefully by then i ll be on with the quilting share this tweet print opens in new window print like loading posted in embroidery quilt a long serendipity textile books tagged embroidery fabric book foraging happy stitches journals pretty little things and trims 8 comments phenology wheel sal posted on march 22 2026 by craftycreeky three weeks ago i gave you a peek of my new project a phenology wheel these are illustrated records of the year usually of nature in a wheel pattern if you google them you ll see lots of examples i ve wanted to stitch one for a while you can get templates on etsy but i could never find one that was just what i wanted at the right time for me to start stitching it i was delighted when skipton stitchers decided this would be a group challenge this year we were given the choice of fonts and size most people have gone for this size which comfortably fits in a 10 hoop the design was printed on stick and stitch which feels a bit like thin interfacing stuck on paper this could then be ironed onto our chosen fabric once the embroidery is complete a quick rinse dissolves it i washed mine once i d stitched the outline and the letters as apparently it can be difficult to remove if it s densely stitched i stitched the outline in split stitch using a variegated green perle thread i haven t decided if i m going to whip stitch it yet or what i m going to put in the centre of the wheel the seasons are stitched with a variegated dmc thread using chain stitch i wasn t quite sure how the lighter shades would work out but once it was washed i was happy with the effect the months are embroidered with dmc4040 which is a variegated green and a split stitch it looks a bit thick really but it s legible i ve decided to illustrate mine with flowers and leaves either from my garden or the back lane for january i chose snowdrops we have a large number of snowdrops up near the pond my mum gave me a bunch from her garden many years ago and they ve been quietly spreading ever since i drew the outline with a fine frixion pen before embroidering it with dmc threads i embroidered them with stem stitch and long and short stitch i need to iron off the markings before i decide if it needs more green on the petals but i need to stitch february first so i don t accidently remove those too as you can see i haven t started february yet and we re nearly at the end of march february is catkins which have been lovely this year on the back lane for march i m thinking of primroses as they re easier to stitch than daffodils please visit the other blogs that are also taking part in this sal there are lots of different projects to enjoy the participants live all over the world so you may need to allow for time differences click the links to their blogs below and see what they re up to our next updates will be published on 12th april 2026 avis claire kathy margaret sunny megan deborah sharon daisy cathie linda marymargaret cindy helen share this tweet print opens in new window print like loading posted in embroidery serendipity stitch a long tagged art catkins crafts embroidery nature phenology wheel seasons sewing snowdrops writing 9 comments robin and dormice wallhanging posted on march 20 2026 by craftycreeky at the last quilting meeting i cracked on with my raggedy ruff kit i started this over twelve months ago when i was doing the declutter challenge i completed half of it then so i decided to do the other half for this years challenge last time i posted about it at the end of january i had just finished the background this was my progress photo with the other half i love the backgrounds of the raggedy ruff designs they re interesting without dominating the quilt over the last month i cut out the applique shapes and started the machine embroidery after a couple of meetings and a couple of evenings i managed to finish the left hand side i m pretty pleased with it obviously it s not perfect it certainly doesn t measure up to close scrutiny but the overall effect is fine as you can see i immediately stitched it to the left hand side and sandwiched it with some fabric from my stash which works perfectly as its purple and gold colour i ve just got to decide how to quilt it now i m thinking of using the thread in the photo which seems to incorporate all the background shades in the pattern photos the quilting is quite dense with a double flame design i m wondering about a more leafy design or i might just do a meander i think i need to doodle on the paper pattern 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