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.
November 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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October 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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September 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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August 2022 - Foxglove Pattern
Celebrate foxgloves standing proud and confidently above all the other flowers with this pattern.
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July 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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June 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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May 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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April 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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March 2022 - Violet Pattern
Violets are popular and can be spotted in the woods or in your local flowerbed
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February 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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January 2022 - Cyclamen Pattern
You may be lucky enough to spot cyclamen out and about on winter woodland walks
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December 2021 - Poinsettia pattern
The poinsettia is now as much a staple of Christmas as holly and mistletoe.
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November 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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October 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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September 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.
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August 2021 - Cornflower pattern
There is a roundabout nearby that has the most beautiful selection of wildflowers growing on it. Red poppies, white daisies, cow parsley, buttercups and a pop of blue cornflowers. I could have chosen any of them for this month’s pattern but I love the shape of the cornflowers.
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July 2021 - Lavender pattern
The scent of lavender wafts in the air during July and it is a bunch of dried lavender I used as inspiration for the July free embroidery pattern.
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June 2021 - Rose pattern
I took a photo 20 years ago in Portland, Oregon in the rose test gardens where they grow hundreds of varieties of roses. It was thinking back to that trip and seeing all the roses in bloom that made me pick roses as the theme for June's free pattern.
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May 2021 - Bluebell pattern
I’d heard that Beckenham Place Park was the place in SE London to see bluebells so I took a short train ride to go and admire them and they were beautiful and the inspiration for this month’s pattern.