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LJT2024 Christmas sampler 6

5th Nov 2024

A reindeer for the 6th motif of our 2024 Christmas sampler. Have a good week, Lesley

LJT 2024 Christmas sampler 5

29th Oct 2024

Number 5! and our sampler is beginning to look - a little like Christmas! I do hope you are enjoying it. Hope you all have a good week and happy stitching, Lesley

LJT 2024 Christmas sampler 4

22nd Oct 2024

The fourth motif and I think the sampler is looking great. Thank you for your lovely comments and pictures of your stitched pieces that you have sent through. Please keep them coming as I love seeing them. Hope you all have a lovely stitching week. Lesley

LJT 2024 Christmas sampler 3

15th Oct 2024

The third motif, a simple star for our 2024 Christmas sampler. I hope you are enjoying it.

Happy stitching, Lesley

LJT Christmas sampler 2

8th Oct 2024

The second motif for our 2024 Christmas sampler. I hope you will enjoy the series. Happy stitching, Lesley.

LJT Christmas sampler 1

1st Oct 2024

The start of the designs for my new Wednseday Blog design. This time a Christmas sampler which I do hope you will enjoy. The first motif, a simple heart.

Happy stitching, Lesley

LJT 2024 Christmas sampler

24th Sep 2024

The start of another new Blog design and this one is a bright, simple and cheerful Christmas sampler which I hope you will enjoy. Although shown as white / gold stitching on a red fabric, it is entirely up to you if you would like to choose another colour. These weekly designs will take us up to Wednesday 18th December so it will be all ready for Christmas.

Please note that each square is 27w x 28h in order to centralise...

LJT Blog Garden sampler 9

3rd Sep 2024

The last motif for my Garden sampler! I am so pleased with this design so I do hope you have been enjoying it. I am taking a couple of week's off. So I will catch up with you all again on the 25th September. Till then, happy stitching, everyone, Lesley.

LJT Blog Garden sampler 8

27th Aug 2024

I hope you have been enjoying this sampler as we get to part 8 of the design.

Happy stitching everyone, Lesley

LJT BLOG Garden sampler 7

20th Aug 2024

 Number 7 of my Garden sampler and thank you so much for the contributions of the stitched pieces of this design that some of you have sent in. Much appreciated. Lesley.

LJT BLOG Garden sampler 6

13th Aug 2024

Gosh! only 3 more to go! I do hope you are enjoying this one.

Happy stitching, everyone, Lesley.

LJT BLOG Garden sampler 5

6th Aug 2024

This week it is the central motif of my Garden sampler for you to stitch, a pretty beehive and verse. Hope your week is going well, Lesley

LJT BLOG Garden sampler 4

30th Jul 2024

The start of our second row of my BLOG Garden sampler. I do hope you are enjoying it, and here in GB, we finally have some sun and can start to enjoy being outside.

Happy stitching everyone, Lesley.

LJT BLOG Garden sampler 3

23rd Jul 2024

The third motif for my new Wednesday Blog Garden sampler design. I hope you will enjoy it and all have a lovely week, Lesley.

LJT BLOG Garden sampler 2

16th Jul 2024

The second design for our Garden sampler. How quickly the week seems to go by. Happy stitching, everyone.  Lesley.

LJT BLOG Garden sampler 1

9th Jul 2024

The first of the small designs for you to stitch. I hope you will enjoy them whether for cards or as a sampler. Happy stitching, Lesley.

LJT BLOG Garden sampler GRID

2nd Jul 2024

I do hope the week has gone well for you. In Britain, finally some sun!  And, today, the start of our new project with the grid and border for you to work on for my Garden sampler design. I think many of you will stitch the motifs for cards, so next Wednesday will be the first design. I am also adding another picture today which shows how you could replace the words with some hearts. I will not be adding...

LJT BLOG Garden sampler.

25th Jun 2024

I hope your week has gone well and you have had sometime to realx with some stitching. 

The start of a new series!! A bit different again, but I hope many of you will enjoy it. The motifs have been adpated from a group I did many years ago for a magazine. I thought that by choosing a few to put together they would be ideal for individual cards for gardening friends or, as shown, a pretty sampler.

I have added the...