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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.

LJT Blog Simple flower cards

14th Jan 2025

The first design for our Simple flower cards. I do hope you will enjoy them and I hope it will encourage some stitchers to 'have a go' at simple 'blackwork' style designs.

Hope you all have a lovely week, Lesley

LJT Blog Simple flower cards

7th Jan 2025

Back to simple cross stitch and blackwork for 4 new flower designs. At the end of this project we will be taking on a larger one for Easter and very different! but I hope you will enjoy this. The options are for the 4 designs to be stitched with the border for a pretty panel, or as individual designs, with or without the border. This week the pdf file is for the complete border and next week the first of...

LJT2024 Christmas sampler 12

17th Dec 2024

I have so enjoyed this series and here we are at the final design! Thank you so much for your lovely comments and pictures that you have sent in. May I wish you all a lovely Christmas and I will be back with another Blog series on the 8th January 2025. Lesley.

LJT2024 Christmas sampler 11

10th Dec 2024

Nearly there! I do hope you have enjoyed this series. Just one more to go! Happy stitching, Lesley.

LJT2024 Christmas sampler 10

3rd Dec 2024

The last row of my Christmas sampler and number 10 is a Christmas stocking. Happy stitching, Lesley