A Patchwork of Crafts

 Usually at this time of the year I join in the Trick or Treat Blog hop hosted by Jo over at  https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/  ...

 but not quite. I have all of the blackwork completed. What a relief that it all joined up where it should. I was a tad eager to finish and ...

 in working on this, a bit more of a pause than I had anticipated as for some reason this year I am late getting started with my stitching f...

first attempt unpicked time for a rethink. Something smaller but the question about regular or random. It is amazing how truly difficult ran...

 I have been prevaricating this for two lots of wallpaper and a floor. There is no more putting it off. So the underskirt was the first bit ...

time to do something with the floor. I drew an outline of the fire place bottom and the edge of the table and skirt and I tried to work out ...

 on the wall, is done, metallic as per the pattern( well almost as I used a different one for the dress to the frame), with a bit of an addi...

The top section this time, I have modified the pattern I used for the bottom of the wall (which was from The New Anchor Book of Blackwork) i...

 a lighter shade of pale and the wallpaper starts to make an appearance. Funny that I found a fill to use for the wallpaper and I am still c...

 on my blackwork project. The fill is set for the overdress and is in black and gold.  I have completed the black part and am pausing to con...

and I do mean little.  This is just 23 by 32 stitches, and that includes the edge. Do you think those middle figures look like ducks.  I lik...

 or backstitch? I vary between the two depending on how clear the pattern is and how confident I am feeling about the count on a blackwork p...

 So doing the fireplace surround, mantlepiece and grate was very soothing and easy to stitch as running stitch , the key pattern was also de...

 lines meeting up in the right place. And the back of the dress met the chair exactly where it was supposed to. Which gave me the lift I nee...

 well my mother thinks that this stitching figure looks like an Alien, not the kind Ridley would have recognised but the little grey men typ...

 beginning to think I can't count more than two on this one ! I am out by one somewhere...so that the table top and the skirt are not me...

 this is a new blackwork piece. It is a progression in blackwork for me, My  First  and subsequent small pieces have been fully charted, out...