Free 12-Day Advent Embroidery Pattern: Frost & Flora Bauble
Liz Harwood Liz Harwood

Free 12-Day Advent Embroidery Pattern: Frost & Flora Bauble

Get ready to stitch your way to Christmas with this Frost & Flora Bauble – a FREE 12-day Advent embroidery pattern! Follow along with daily stitching prompts, and enjoy video tutorials to guide you through each step. Whether you’re counting down the days or stitching at your own pace, this pattern will help you create a beautiful bauble to treasure each festive season!

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How to Stitch Your Hedgehog and Mushroom Embroidery Panel: A Step-by-Step Guide
Liz Harwood Liz Harwood

How to Stitch Your Hedgehog and Mushroom Embroidery Panel: A Step-by-Step Guide

In this step-by-step tutorial, I'll show you how to stitch a cute hedgehog and mushroom embroidery panel. From selecting the perfect colours to using stitches like satin and split stitch, this guide is packed with tips to help you create a beautiful finished piece. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned stitcher, follow along and make this design your own!

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Step-by-Step Guide to Stitching a Colourful Robin on Your Embroidery Square
Liz Harwood Liz Harwood

Step-by-Step Guide to Stitching a Colourful Robin on Your Embroidery Square

Discover how to bring your robin embroidery square to life with my detailed, step-by-step guide! In this blog, I'll walk you through the entire stitching process, from choosing the right materials to perfecting each stitch. Learn how to create a vibrant, colourful robin with tips on needle selection, thread choices, and techniques like basket weave and satin stitch. Whether you're a beginner or looking to refine your skills, this guide will help you add a unique, personal touch to your embroidery project. Dive in and start stitching your way to a beautiful robin masterpiece!

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Stitching a Grumpy Wren - An Embroidery Guide
Liz Harwood Liz Harwood

Stitching a Grumpy Wren - An Embroidery Guide

Now, I’m just going to say it and address the elephant in the room…. my little Wren has turned out a bit grumpy! It’s how I’ve stitched his little eye. It’s so interesting, isn’t it? The eyes are the key to giving such a character and a tweak could give him a completely different personality. My initial reaction was to unpick and re-stitch to give him a happier appearance. But after I had slept on it, I’ve decided to leave him as he is…… a cute grumpy little Wren embroidery.

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Bauble Advent Embroidery
Liz Harwood Liz Harwood

Bauble Advent Embroidery

Oh, what a fun way to countdown to Santa’s visit! 24 Christmas baubles to stitch.

This embroidery template is available for you to download and stitch too. All you need to do is print out the template, trace it onto your fabric, and then have fun stitching a bauble every day. You’ll be able to decorate the baubles using whichever stitches and thread colours you like! There are no rules! It’s all about having fun!

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Long Tailed Tit Embroidery
Liz Harwood Liz Harwood

Long Tailed Tit Embroidery

Oooo I’ve really added a whole new level of fun with this embroidery project. It’s the first of my new garden bird designs that I’ve stitched and yes, I’ve painted the background!

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Rabbit Spring Embroidery
Liz Harwood Liz Harwood

Rabbit Spring Embroidery

I’ve stitched my Rabbit Embroidery Square so I’m writing this blog to show you exactly how I stitched my bunny and a guide of how you can stitch yours. I include the thread colours, the stitches, the number of strands and the needle size that I’ve used along with a few video links of each weeks stitching progress.

The daffodils are open and this is the perfect time to be stitching this adorable bunny! But rabbits aren’t just for Easter, so if you’re a rabbit lover stitching your embroidery square on a dark November evening you’re going to have just as much fun as I did being creative with this whimsical design.

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Mouse Embroidery
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Mouse Embroidery

I started my mouse embroidery square while I was at Exeter Craft Festival in July this year. I knew it would be a ‘mice’ little project (sorry couldn’t help it) for those quiet times during events. I actually didn’t manage to stitch that much at the festival and ended up cutting out most of what I did stitch…. But that is the great thing about embroidery, its so easy to pick up and put down and anything you’re not happy with can be re-stitched or stitched over.

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Duck Embroidery- Rainy Days
Liz Harwood Liz Harwood

Duck Embroidery- Rainy Days

Well, it just had to be my duck design for April stitch along…….although so far we’ve been very lucky with the sunshine and had very few showers.

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March Stitch Along - Sunny Meadows

March Stitch Along - Sunny Meadows

Hello again! I must say….I have absolutely loved this one! I may have gone a bit overboard with the colours though – at the end of stitching I’ve used 11 colours in total, a few more than I thought I was going to use but I just couldn’t help myself. The spring flowers have really sprung into action over the last for the couple of weeks and are just displaying so many colours!

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February Stitch Along - The Lighthouse

February Stitch Along - The Lighthouse

Hello again! I’ve just finished off my February stitching so thought this was the perfect time to write the blog to go along with it. Although these stitch along blogs are going to be more like little recap guides for those of you wanting something to refer to quickly if you fancied stitching your own embroidery squares.

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How I stitched my Seagull

How I stitched my Seagull

How did my embroidery squares come about?

For me, tracing patterns onto fabric is the bit that I do not enjoy doing. I don’t have a light box, so I tape patterns onto windows and trace the best I can, but my arm aches after a while, my pen stops working properly from holding it up and I usually miss bits of the pattern. So, before I’ve even threaded my needle, I feel like I’ve already got off to a bad start with my embroidery. And so, having my designs pre-printed ready to colour in with thread takes away that initial faff and allows you to get going with the fun bit…….the stitching!

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Hello!
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Hello!

Hello!

Welcome to my little Blog! I’ve thought about starting this for a while, but I’ve been stopped by the crippling thoughts of not having any interesting content or enough time to write it. But todays the day………I am taking the plunge!

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