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Finished up this paint by numbers. There’s something about this design that I really like, the colours all contrast yet blend together so nicely. Like last time I also sealed it to protect the paint from dust and fading.
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Progress on the baby whale. So close to finishing now…
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Finished all the bunting! In total there is around 30ish metres of bunting (enough to span 6m between two trees twice and to edge 3 tables). Sewing all this used up a bit over 1300 metres of thread! But my, it does look pretty festive!
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I’ve been trying to keep COVID off this page, but its got to the point that people are telling me to cancel my wedding which is 7 months in the future because of it. I know that right now everything is a bit horrible and I really feel for those who have had to cancel…
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Guess what I’m stitching now? I’ve always found that Couchman cross stitch patterns simple and generally straight forward. This one though, omg! The lines of colour are so hard to keep in focus that major miscounts happen very easily. The black section had to be unpicked in it’s entirety at least 5 times consecutively because…
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Welcome to 2020! A whole 2 christmases ago my partner laser cut a Magikarp model for me and I hung onto it until we had settled into our own home. This is the model from the laser cut. I’m planning to design/model some whiskers for it at a later stage, as those parts didn’t cut…
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I realised I’d made a rookie error with the original calculations (aka calculating pleats into whole length instead of finished length!). Once that was sorted I got sewing. This is the finished cage cover. Despite careful measuring for some reason it has one end invert shorter by 2.5cm and a lining pucker under half a…
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Slowly getting there with the dragon cross stitch. Stitching on black is really hard on the eyes, particularly when some sections are the same colour in different stitches!
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A little crochet caique. Wonder what my baby bird will think of the mini-him…
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Decided to make a cage cover for the birdcage as all the commercial ones are boring! Found this cute fabric and taught myself how to calculate for inverted box pleats. Now I just need to find where I packed the sewing machine…