For a long time, the only thing that grew successfully in my London garden (apart from weeds) was a lilac bush. The spears of purple and gorgeous smell on a sunny spring day were a delight.
March 2023 - Wood Anemone Pattern
The nature reserve near me has a beautiful carpet of wood anemone appear each year. March is a little early for them in the North East but further south they will start appearing during March.
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Read MoreFebruary 2023 - Catkins Free Pattern
Yellow catkins are a sure sign that the world around us is awakening from a winter hibernation.
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Read MoreJanuary 2023 - Winter Jasmine Pattern
Winter Jasmine is one of the first plants to flower at the start of each year while everything else still lies dormant.
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Read MoreDecember 2022 - Mistletoe Pattern
Mistletoe is so associated with Christmas but have you ever seen it out in the wild? It's most common in western England and parts of Wales. It grows as a hemiparasite on trees and should be easy to spot once the trees have lost their leaves.
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Read MoreNovember 2022 - Bulrushes Pattern
If you walk across a field, down a steep set of steps you reach a nature reserve with fens and open water edged by bulrushes.
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Read MoreOctober 2022 - Honeysuckle Pattern
Our honeysuckle plant hasn't flowered yet as it needs to mature but I can't wait to see it bloom and what glorious colour the flowers will be.
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Read MoreSeptember 2022 - Blackberry Pattern
Something a little different for this free pattern, not a flower but a fruit. Heading out of Summer and into Autumn, is a perfect time to pick blackberries from the brambles.
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Read MoreAugust 2022 - Foxglove Pattern
Celebrate foxgloves standing proud and confidently above all the other flowers with this pattern.
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Read MoreJuly 2022 - Oxeye Daisy Pattern
Daisies have been appearing in lawns and verges over the past few months and seeing a patch of grass in a park makes me want to lay down my blanket, have a picnic and make some daisy chains!
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Read MoreJune 2022 - Welsh Poppy Pattern
Over the past few weeks, these have been popping up all over our garden, and are the first colour to really appear for us.
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Read MoreMay 2022 - Lily of the Valley Pattern
Lily Of The Valley is such a beautiful and delicate flower and makes a really good subject for embroidery.
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Read MoreApril 2022 - Forget-Me-Not Pattern
The clusters of small light blue flowers are so pretty, whether in a garden or a wildflower meadow.
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Read MoreMarch 2022 - Violet Pattern
Violets are popular and can be spotted in the woods or in your local flowerbed
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Read MoreFebruary 2022 - Primrose Pattern
I love spotting primroses nestled in the steep slopes of the nature reserve nearby and they inspired this pattern.
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Read MoreJanuary 2022 - Cyclamen Pattern
You may be lucky enough to spot cyclamen out and about on winter woodland walks
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Read MoreDecember 2021 - Poinsettia pattern
The poinsettia is now as much a staple of Christmas as holly and mistletoe.
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Read MoreNovember 2021 - Camellia pattern
Researching flowers that bloom in the winter, I came across the camellia. I chose to stitch this design in a gorgeous bright pink and this colour of camellias symbolise longing for or missing someone.
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Read MoreOctober 2021 - Cosmos pattern
Did you know that each month has a flower associated with it that is your ‘birth month flower’ in the same way that you have a birth month stone. Cosmos is the birth month flower for October. These simple flowers come in so many pretty colours so you can choose one to suit your mood.
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Read MoreSeptember 2021 - Fuchsia pattern
As we move into autumn there are fewer and fewer flowers about. Fuchsia is one that you'll often find until the first autumn frost.