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Advent Window Stars: A Magical Advent Craft to create with children (or on your own)
✨ The Joy of Making Advent Window Stars – A Winter Craft for All Ages ✨ As the days shorten and the soft winter light settles across our homes, many of us instinctively reach for activities that bring comfort, colour, and calm. Winter is the perfect season for slow, mindful crafting – and few projects capture the magic of this time of year quite like Advent Window Stars . These delicate, glowing stars are made from folded squares of coloured transparent paper. When the pieces
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Simple Crochet bag
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Stitch Library
Useful stitches for Menditation and Mendspiration If you have been following our posts about stitching for meditation, relaxation, and...
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Blanket Stitch
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French Knots
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Fly Stitch
This is another fun stitch you can use to fill larger areas. Bring your needle up at 1 and down at 2, leaving some thread slack across...
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Lazy Daisy Stitch
This is a variation of Chain Stitch where each chain “link” forms an individual stitch, and is great for filling a space or making a...
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Chain Stitch
This can be used for outlines or to give a different texture to an area. Come up at 1 and take your needle back down as close to 1 as...
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Seed Stitch
This is created by scattering straight stitches randomly. You can make them as long or short, thick or thin, spaced out or densely...
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Back Stitch
Bring your needle up at 1 and down at 2. Come back up at 3 and down at 1, up at 3, down at 1, up at 4, down at 3 and repeat this...
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Aligned and Non-aligned Running Stitch
Aligned running stitch is created by making rows of stitches in which all the stitches align. Seen here on the right. Non aligned running...
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Woven Running Stitch Variation
A variation of this stitch is to work several rows of aligned running stitch and then weave the thread up and down passing through all...
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Woven Running Stitch
This is similar to whipped running stitch. Stitch a row of running stitch and bring your needle up close to the last stitch. Pass the...
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Whipped Running Stitch
Stitch a row of running stitches. In the same thread, or a contrasting colour, bring your needle up close to one of your stitches. Pass...
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Running Stitch
This is an incredibly versatile stitch and looks like a dashed line. Bring your needle up at 1 and down at 2. Bring it up at 3, down at...
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Mindful Stitching
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Mending with Patches
How to patch your clothes - ideas and inspiration. We call it mendspiration!
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Kantha Stitched Patches
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Doodle Stitching
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Meet The Yarn Genies
Nikki & Amélie, mum and daughter, sharing a passion for making stuff & showing how it is done.
Nikki designs some knitting patterns - she knits a lot....and she can talk about it endlessly. She's become her friends' go to for knitting help, and provided sufficient tea is drunk we usually find an answer.
Amélie has been knitting since the age of 3 and a half, she had to work it out for herself though, as mum was chatting too much! These days she is an aspiring folk musician, playing her fiddle wherever she can, in between her studies and being a major contributor & supporter to this website.
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