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New Patterns ! Acrylic Pour 30 Yeah ! Two new patterns today:) Acrylic Pour 30 and Blocks and Border 3. Acrylic Pour 30 is what I think of as a ‘heavy duty’ cross stitch pattern. ‘Heavy Duty’ from the

Blocks and Borders 2 I am really, really happy with the progress in this series to date. I hope you enjoy the second design in the series, Blocks and Borders 2. This design follows the same overall design concept of

Pineapple ‘Pineapple’ is my newest Blackwork pattern. From a basic square, subdivided into smaller sections with simple straight lines, we can create an amazing array of designs. The possibilites are endless. All our traditional quilt blocks start off as a

Blocks and Borders 1 I have been a fan of ‘counted thread’ hand embroidery for many years. There are many different types of counted thread hand embroidery, however, the two that I love most are Cross Stitch and Blackwork. I

Sign Up To My Newsletter Here Welcome to ‘With Fabric and Threads’ Newsletters. I love Patchwork and Quilting, Cross Stitch, Blackwork Embroidery and Tangled Line Art. What is ‘Tangled Line Art’ I hear you ask? In a nutshell, Tangled Line

Card Trick I have always been fascinated by how the illusion of 3D is created on a 2D surface, whether that surface be a simple piece of paper, an artist’s substrate, a piece of fabric, a quilt or any other

Thread Spools ‘Thread Spools’ is my newest blackwork embroidery pattern. I thought it was very apt that I design an embroidery pattern based on thread spools. After all, how far can one go with hand embroidery and patchwork/quilting without thread?

Lily Say ‘Hello’ to Lily, my newest Blackwork pattern:) Lily is based on a traditional quilting block. I have always loved geometrics – though not from a mathematical point of view. Yes, I did geometry at school and understood it,

Mountain Range ‘Mountain Range’ is so named because the two ‘peaks’ at either side of the block reminds me of a mountain range – OK, a small ‘mountain range’ :), but you get the idea. To further emphasize

Whirlpool The ‘Whirlpool’ pattern was finished early June but ‘life happened’ and I was waylaid in posting about the new pattern until, well, today:) Whirlpool is 80 x 80 stitches as is the pattern ‘Spinning Wheel’. I will be creating

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