Tag Archives: Christmas

Seasonal embroidered gifts

Posted on October 2, 2018 by

This morning I drove through the New Forest, a national park not far from where I live. It seems that autumn has arrived with a flourish here, the leaves are turning and dancing to the ground and the ferns have … Continue reading →

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a naughty fairy for Christmas – a re-blog

Posted on September 18, 2018 by

 A naughty fairy you ask? Let me explain. Back in 2017 I created the “Christmas” and “Snow” Angels with the promise of an update. Well in digitising and finishing off the update, a new angel with fairy wings I discovered … Continue reading →

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This year’s machine embroidered Christmas card

Posted on December 23, 2017 by

Those of  you who follow my blog know that every Christmas I make a very special machine embroidered card for my sister from one of my designs. Last week I made this years one for her and thought I should … Continue reading →

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a “naughty”embroidered fairy for your tree

Posted on November 24, 2017 by

 A naughty fairy you ask? Let me explain. Back in 2017 I created the “Christmas” and “Snow” Angels with the promise of an update. Well in digitising and finishing off the update, a new angel with fairy wings I discovered … Continue reading →

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digitising a colourful Christmas collection

Posted on June 29, 2017 by

Over the last few weeks I have been working on the new Christmas collection for 2017. This collection was inspired by some wrapping paper! As there are already several collections at Graceful Embroidery in the usual seasonal colour schemes, I … Continue reading →

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two embroidered Christmas angels

Posted on December 24, 2016 by

I have taken the Celtic angel and created two new angels for you, one with a red and white theme with butterfly wings and another with a snow theme and feathered wings. Both wings come in two sizes and as … Continue reading →

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time for another embroidered Christmas card

Posted on December 19, 2016 by

Each year I make it my aim to embroider a very special Christmas card for my sister. This year I was inspired by some wrapping paper. It wasn’t necessarily the design but the colour scheme that caught my eye. Something … Continue reading →

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printed templates, aligning designs and re-hooping segments of a large stocking (part 1)

Posted on December 7, 2016 by

I love to challenge myself to learn new digitising skills and my customers to develop new machine embroidery skills. The latest project for this Christmas has been my biggest challenge yet. My first crazy quilted stocking has proved very popular but … Continue reading →

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a Celtic angel project

Posted on February 17, 2016 by

Since updating my Celtic Angel set I have been embellishing some of the angels I have created. This is the first one to be completed

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Happy New Year from Graceful Embroidery

Posted on January 4, 2016 by

Since releasing my Celtic Angel I have been looking at her on the top of my Christmas tree and it has been become very obvious to me that she needs the option of another set of larger upright wings! I … Continue reading →

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