Welcome to my first post of 2025! It’s hard to believe we’re almost two full months into the new year. I don’t remember much of January, mostly cold and dark days, walking to the office in the dark, coming home in the dark and experimenting with 30 different ways to wear my woolly scarf. It’s … More February: Snowdrops embroidery and discovering Imbolc
Last month, while browsing the magazine aisle in my local M&S, the new issue of Love Embroidery caught my eye. It had a stunning white pumpkin hoop on the cover, and I knew I had to get it. As a self-proclaimed Autumn Girl, pumpkins are my favourite decor, and I have them as tiny plant … More Early autumn white pumpkin embroidery
After twenty-eight years on this planet, I’m still shocked every time summer starts, especially in England. It always comes as a surprise. It’s cold and windy one day, and the next, it’s so hot, and the sun is shining so bright that my autumn heart stops beating for a second, sad and already tired of … More Craftpod 2023 Summer box
One of my favourite pastimes after a long day is putting on a tv show in the background while scrolling through Pinterest looking for free cross-stitch templates. I’ve collected many tiny templates, but taking the time to cross-stitch them is a different story. … More A tiny spring mushroom cross-stitch
Happy Halloween! Don’t you love this time of year? It’s been raining almost non-stop every day since October started. The streets are full of colourful fallen leaves, there are pumpkins everywhere, and I finally got to wear my winter coat. … More Halloween cross-stitch and pumpkin carving
I started 2021 with some basic goals, one was to read more non-fiction, which I ended up loving, explore a vegan diet, reduce my use of plastic, etc. But one of the most challenging goals was to learn to knit a scarf. So I decided to tackle that in November, when finally, after what felt like months, I managed to knit what looks and feels like a big, wobbly scarf. The scarf you see here was my second attempt, as I failed dramatically the first time, which I won’t post here because it’s too embarrassing even to show a handful of strangers on the internet. … More Knitting a scarf for the first time
I’ve been in a kind of craft slump. After my failed first attempt at knitting a scarf, I was incapable of crafting anything at all until I bought this old Craftpod kit on Etsy. I thought an easy, fast project like this cute winter cross-stitch would help me get out of my crafter’s block. And it did; it even gave me enough motivation to try to knit a new scarf. I have the wool skeins starting at me as I write this. … More A small winter cross-stitch
Every season I look forward to getting my Craftpod box, it’s honestly a big highlight in my monotonous life. I love the surprise of not knowing what projects they’ve planned for the season, growing my collection of DMC threads and trying new things. … More Craftpod’s Autumn 2021 Box
I’m not a summer person. I guess that’s obvious by the name of this blog, so I wasn’t excited it was already June, but I was excited that a new season meant a new Craftpod. I had zero expectations this time because their boxes this past year have been so varied I don’t know what to expect anymore, and that’s part of the fun! … More Craftpod’s Summer Box 2021
Have you ever been in an embroiderer’s living room and looked at their hoop collection and noticed a bee embroidery hanging on the wall? Creating one bumblebee embroidery, usually surrounded by flowers with the bee in the centre, is like a rite of passage in an embroiderer’s life. … More A Bumblebee Embroidery
Willow in Winter 
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