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New designs

27th Jun 2018

Hi everyone, I have added two new large floral designs this week to my growing! selection - this time Anemones and a Lily. All these designs use only whole cross stitches, although a couple do include French knots plus a couple of backstitches if there are insects for the detail. Do remember that this Sunday is the 1st July, so Sunbonnet Sue time! Enjoy your week. x

Busy week

20th Jun 2018

Just trying to do catch - up this week. I think because the weather has been so good, I got somewhat waylaid in the garden so work got a bit behind! Deadlines today, but thankfully made it for GOLD, so everyone is happy. 

I transferred another large floral to my new section this week - a mauve rhododendron - which I think is lovely, especially the colours. And, in this month's issue of GOLD Cross Stitch magazine you can find four...

Floral sampler

13th Jun 2018

I was delighted yesterday when this picture arrived of one of my floral designs from a stitcher in Hong Kong. So beautifully stitched by 'T' and I love her choice of fabric. Thank you for sending it in 'T' - much appreciated. Quite apt, as the June motif for our LJT Floral sampler SAL is out this Friday. As you can see this time it will be the colourful poppy. Hope everyone is getting on well with it all.

Speak next...

Another week

6th Jun 2018

Another week gone by, but here in the UK, especially where I live in Suffolk, the weather has been beautiful and sun is forcast for all of today. The landscape certainly looks like Summer with the darker greens on the trees and the vibrant red poppies that can now be seen in the hedgerows and fields.

For those of you that don't look at my FB page, I just wanted to add a picture of my Angel design that a stitcher...

Website shop

30th May 2018

I have decided to make a few changes to my Shop page, or at least Rachel Watson, my website designer will soon. A couple of sections will be removed. One is the needlepoint designs, as there doesn't appear to be enough interest in this style of needlework. This will be replaced with my Blackwork and cross stitch pictures that are so popular and I think they deserve a section on their own.

The other, is to select a group of Large...

New chart ready in time for Christmas!

23rd May 2018

I know, but that word has to be said occasionally....you may not wish to start stitching for Christmas quite this soon but I hope you will still like to see these four jolly snowmen that I have added to my shop today......and they will still be here when you are ready to start. 

Hope, like us, you enjoyed seeing our Royal wedding last weekend. I just love to see  the colour and pageantry on the screen. It must have been wonderful...

Tilly

16th May 2018

A little late updating my Wednesday Blog. My computer seemed to take ages downloading and updating the files this morning......

A picture of our Labrador, Tilly, who is now 9 months old...plus a week! As you can see she is nearly fully grown, just the filling out bits I think now. Considering she is classified as a teenager and supposed to be pushing the boundaries, overall she is quite good.

The other picture, which I have added to my FB page just...

Sunny Wednesday

9th May 2018

Yet another sunny day here in Suffolk. David and I have certainly had glorous weather here this weekend to enable us to do 'catch - up' in the garden, although we are still a couple of months away from seeing glorious poppies like these.

Floral designs are a lovely way to add year - round colour to your home, and you can't get more colourful than these beautiful red poppies which can  be found in the latest edition of GOLD Cross...

New blackwork design

2nd May 2018

Hope you are enjoying the latest Sunbonnet Sue design for May which I posted on the 1st.

I am so pleased to say that I have another blackwork design to add to my collection. This time a glorious kingfisher, set amidst bullrushes, iris and waterside flowers and of course, not forgetting, a beautiful Swallowtail butterfly. I am delighted with this design and I hope many of you will also enjoy stitching it.

You will find this kingfisher design under 'Decorative' on my...

Sunny Wednesday

25th Apr 2018

What a glorious few days we have had in the UK which has enabled David and me to do some catch up in the garden. It's quite amazing how a bit of warmth makes everything grow twice as fast! 

The new addition to our Royal family was good news this week and for those of you who have new babies to look forward to then here are two ideas for decorative samplers for both a boy or girl that are just...

Wednesday chat

18th Apr 2018

The sun is shining! Having spoken to a friend in Canada yesterday where snow is still on the ground I think perhaps we are a bit spoilt here, especially on the East of the UK in Suffolk.

Hope your week has gone well, but I have to apologise for not getting my new blackwork design on to my Shop as I said I would. I decided to tweak a small section as I wasn't completely happy about it and it just...

Another week.......

11th Apr 2018

Hope your week has gone well wherever you are in the world. Here in the UK our weather has improved quite a bit and I think we are all loooking forward to some Summer weather now. Here is a preview of my latest blackwork design that will be on sale this weekend. The design is a simple clematis flower and buds with the addition of a lovely Great tit and butterflies.

Don't forget that this Friday 13th!! I will be adding...

Dog and cat day!

28th Mar 2018

Two new designs have been added to my shop of a cute dog and sleepy cat. The colours shown on these designs is just for guidance as the idea behind both of these is to try and give you, the stitcher, the option to choose your own colours for the cushion patterns as this will allow for oddments of threads to be used.  Both designs can be viewed above, but for an example, I have added two more colourways here,...

Update on my SALs

21st Mar 2018

We are well and truly into both SALs now, and I am getting such lovely feed back for both the Floral Sampler and our Sunbonnet Sue designs. Here are just a tiny assortment  to represent them both. It's lovely to also see how some of you are adapting the designs to make them more personal. Keep the pictures coming and thank you for all of your lovely comments. It is SO appreciated. x

Another week!

14th Mar 2018

Where does the time go!

I have been busy drawing up new designs which I hope to have out in April. One is a new blackwork design that will be a companion to the blackwork flower and wren that is so popular with you all. Here is a little section of my work in progress of the new design.

This week, on the 15th, you will be able to get the latest issue of Cross Stitch Crazy which has my design of...

Wednesday chat.

7th Mar 2018

The snow has finally gone here and I hope that the rest of the country is finally getting back to normal. The scenery was stunning and Tilly really enjoyed the snow but we are now looking forward to Spring.

I had a lovely photo sent to me yesterday from Monique in France of my Blackwork angel. I popped it onto my FB page yesterday but just in case you haven't seen it I thought I would add it here. I think...

Wednesday update

14th Feb 2018

A busy week but I have managed to get two more Costume Dolls finished; Australia and New Zealand which you can see above; or go to my link to see the full series so far: http://www.lesleyteare.com/shop/costume-dolls Canada will be next.

The picture you can see here is of my Spring Hare which is in the latest edition of Just Cross stitch magazine. This is both simple to stitch  and great fun to do. It looks particularly good on evenweave but...

New designs

7th Feb 2018

Thanks to Debbie Sewter who sent me a picture of her stitching of my monthly flowers. The group of 12 designs was published as a diary in 2016 in World of Cross Stitching. It reminded me about them so I have decided to make a start to add them to my Shop. The first one, January, that you can see here, is ready, but Debbie is wondering whether to add a border to each of her monthly stitched flowers. I...