Homespun Stitchworks..... For the love of vintage

  BY ALL THESE LOVELY TOKENS SEPTEMBER DAYS ARE HERE.   WITH SUMMER'S BEST OF WEATHER AND AUTUMN'S BEST OF CHEER. Helen Hunt Jackson. Welcome September, where has this year gone? ...

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  Old cloth with new purpose, mending my soul with each stitch.   My memories carefully added to the heart of my creations. Stitch by soulful stitch. Sarah Hawkings 2024 When sorti...

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  I know a bank where the wild thyme blows. Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows. Quiet over canopied with luscious woodbine with sweet musk roses with eglantine. WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR...

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  MAY YOUR LIFE BE LIKE A WILDFLOWER GROWING  FREELY IN THE BEAUTY AND JOY OF EACH DAY. NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB. We here in England and especially along the Jurassic coast line nea...

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  The wonder of textile travel amazes me.  I have purchased before now, pieces of very beautiful old linen from France or other European countries from a vintage fair all over our English ...

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  'Neath billowing skies that scatter and amass. Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn-hedge. 'Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass. So this wing'd hour is dropt to us from abov...

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  BREATHE AND TAKE A MINDFUL MOMENT. Life can be hectic for all of us for different reasons.  Mine has been but wonderfully so, sorry I have not posted in two weeks.  I have been away ...

http://www.homespunstitchworks.co.uk/2024/03/mindful-stitching-and-mindful-moments.html

  A little more laughter A little less worry A little more kindness A little less hurry. Stitching time is a time to immerse yourself, it is self care time where you can breathe and...

http://www.homespunstitchworks.co.uk/2024/02/stitching-time-and-quarry-bank.html

  WINTER IS THE TIME FOR COMFORT, FOR GOOD FOOD AND WARMTH, FOR THE TOUCH OF A FRIENDLY HAND AND FOR A TALK BESIDE THE FIRE: IT IS THE TIME FOR HOME AND SLOW STITCHING .......... The hyg...

http://www.homespunstitchworks.co.uk/2024/02/a-winters-tale-in-stitches.html

  WELCOME FEBRUARY ....THE MONTH OF LOVE I have truffled and gathered each little scrap of beautiful vintage fabrics which are worn with time and stories of their own. pieced, snipped, l...

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  EVERY QUILT HAS A STORY  These quilts above are ones that I found from several sources last year and if you are a regular reader I was on the hunt and truffling around for a quilt to ...

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  WITHOUT CRAFTSMANSHIP, INSPIRATION IS A MERE REED SHAKEN IN THE WIND. JOHANNES BRAHMS. Its been too long I know, it has been a very emotional 6 months and the passing of my dear Mum....

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  See a pin and pick it up, and all the day you'll have good luck.  See a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have the day. Unknown. It has been a hectic week here at Thimble.  Tryin...

http://www.homespunstitchworks.co.uk/2023/03/one-tiny-stitch-at-time-and-moomigami.html

  Let all your words be seasoned with Grace. And remember a kind word is never wasted. It has been a few weeks since I posted so sorry but well life sometimes gets in the way. Mum has no...

http://www.homespunstitchworks.co.uk/2023/03/life-with-my-needle-and-thread.html

Quilts are scrapbooks of our hearts. Simplicity can be so beautiful, naivety of a piece of slow stitching on a old panel of quilt is something to behold.  For me simple things bring me so ...

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  The act of sewing is a process of emotional repair. Louise Bourgeois. The wonder of textile travel sometimes amazes me. I have bought before now pieces of very beautiful old linen pi...

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  Quilt - meaning  A warm bed covering made of padding enclosed between layers of fabrics and kept in place by lines of stitching, typically applied in a decorative design ... Oh but it...

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  Let us welcome February and take every chance to show love to all we meet. Hello all, it seems like only yesterday that Christmas was upon us and yet it is now February.  I hope that ...

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  Winter is the time for comfort, for warming food and for talking and sewing by the fireside and a time for being at home in a cosy chair. Sometimes the thought of winter can bring drea...

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   They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  In my eyes this fair was utter perfection and the wonderful setting with amazing decoration was, to this beholder,  exquisite. ...

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  “Memories are stitched with love.”  - Unknown - With needles threaded and my design book at the ready and stunning antique pieces of fabric and quilt pieces I am never happier ...

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  In timeless Paris I turned a page, and there is was Ultramod the best Mercerie in Paris How to begin to explain this most wonderful of adventures.  Well as you know from my last post ...

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  Paris is always a good idea Audrey Hepburn Well as you may have guessed from the title and the above I have been to Paris for a week.  I had the most wonderful time and thought I mi...

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  It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness! Peter Pan. There are so many types of threads and fibers to create with and it is a case ...

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  Every Stitch Adds To The History. When I begin to come to the end of a project it is both sad and happy in equal measures somehow.  The fabric and embroidery art is beginning to come ...

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