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LJT 2025 Spring sampler 3

20th May 2025

The third motif for our 2025 Spring sampler. Hope your week is going well and happy stitching,

Lesley.

LJT 2025 Spring sampler 2

13th May 2025

The second motif, a butterfly, for the 2025 sampler design based on simple blackwork with some cross stitch. Hope your week is going well. Happy stitching, Lesley.

LJT 2025 Spring sampler 1

6th May 2025

The first design in my new Wednesday Blog Spring sampler. As stated previously, the design can be stitched as a sampler - border to be found on last week's Blog or, as here as a pretty design suitable for a small card.

Happy stitching, Lesley.

LJT 2025 Spring sampler

29th Apr 2025

The start of another of my Wednesday Blog designs. A simple blackwork based one which I hope you will enjoy. The design can be stitched as the complete sampler or each design will make lovely little cards for friends and family. The complete border chart is available today and each week I will show each single design with a border.

Stitch on 14 count Aida or 28 count evenweave. Overall size: 80 x 80 

Happy stitching, Lesley.

LJT BLog Knot gardens 4

22nd Apr 2025

The final chart for the 4 Knot garden designs. Nice and simple to stitch for pretty cards.

Happy stitching,

Lesley

LJT Blog Knot gardens 3

15th Apr 2025

The third of the Knot gardens designs. Happy stitching, Lesley

LJT Blog Knot gardens 2

8th Apr 2025

The second Knot garden design. Pretty and simple to stitch. 

Work on 14 count Aida or 28 count evenweave.

Have a lovely week, Lesley.

LJT Blog Knot garden patterns 1

1st Apr 2025

The first of 4 simple Knot garden style designs. These can be stitched as the group of 4 or as an individual design for a pretty little card. Each design: 27 w x 27h  Happy stitching, Lesley.

LJT Blog Knot garden patterns

25th Mar 2025

Four simple designs based on the Knot garden. A knot garden has a low growing evergreen edge to form a pattern. Within these the spaces are filled with colourful flowers. Only whole cross stitches are used in these designs. The KEY shows all of the threads needed for all four designs, I will though add the Key each week for each design. Each design is 3.35 x 3.35 inches or 8.5 x 8.5 cms. These designs are also availble from...

LJT Blog Easter cards 6

18th Mar 2025

A pretty little narcisus flower is the last Easter egg card design in this group of 6 that we have been working on over the past few weeks. I do hope you have enjoyed them, Lesley.

LJT Blog Easter egg cards 5

11th Mar 2025

The 5th Easter egg card this week. I do hope you have been enjoying this series.

Happy stitching, Lesley

LJT Blog Easter egg card 4

4th Mar 2025

The 4th design for our Easter egg cards, this week a red tulip.

Happy stitching, Lesley

LJT Blog Easter egg cards 3

25th Feb 2025

The third Easter egg card and this time a cute bunny. Happy stitching everyone, Lesley

LJT Blog Easter egg cards 2

18th Feb 2025

The second of my Easter egg cards, this time a daffodil. I hope you are haveing a good week with plenty of stitching time, Lesley.

LJT Blog Easter Egg cards

11th Feb 2025

The first of 6 Easter egg cards- a fun little chick. I hope you will enjoy stitching them all over the next 6 weeks. Happy stitching, Lesley.

LJT Blog Simple flower cards 4

4th Feb 2025

The last of the desgns for our Simple flower cards. I do hope you have enjoyed them and next Wednesday there will be a set of 6 new designs starting, ready to lead us up to Easter. See you all then.

Have a happy week, Lesley.

LJT Blog Simple flower cards 3

28th Jan 2025

The third design for Simple flower cards. Happy stitching, Lesley.

LJT Blog Simpler flower cards 2

21st Jan 2025

The second design for our Simpler flower cards. Thank you for all of your lovely comments and I hope your week is going well, Lesley.