A Patchwork of Crafts

No not me, my work desk mate, Alex's son and daughter in law. I say desk mate and we were physically for a lot of years then virtually f...

 This is a monthly share a pattern (current or past) on a theme voted for by previous participants. So today I think I have enough to partic...

this is the first link up of the year with  basically anything connected to the word "gift" is allowed, whether it was a gift TO y...

 It took me three attempts to get the stars to work, it was the order of the stitches that was the key to getting the lines to stay put. I h...

nope, not in this instance.  I was going to do the crescent moon in shades of grey to echo the moon wall decal used in the nursery. I was th...

so the gown as as near the middle as anything in the design, the place to start. I had not picked the colours to use before I started, I tho...

 I have done quite a few birth samplers, usually by combining elements from various pattern books with a tweak here and there to make them m...

All finished and gifted. I almost had an issue with this finish.  I worked out the lettering for the name using my normal go to alphabe...

I finished this birth sampler a while ago however, I had made my usual mistake of being captivated by a design without first checking I had...

A colleague at work  has had a beautiful baby girl (aren't they all beautiful) so as I had offered some time before the birth to do a s...

I have used the same basic pattern for two birth announcement cross stitches.  On the peach framed version I added flowers to extend the d...