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Category: SEASONAL LIVING

April 26, 2025 SEASONAL LIVING

Bring me a Higher Love: Textile Art Collection

Hello loves Imagine you are stepping into a warmly lit art gallery conveniently located just a few moments from your

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March 17, 2025 REFLECTIONS / SEASONAL LIVING

Attempting re-entry

Hello loves At the start of last week, I felt the need to stop before I had properly started, to

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December 13, 2019 SEASONAL CREATIVITY / SEASONAL LIVING / The Story Behind...

A Festive Hut Embroidery Pattern: The Story Behind.

Hello sweet ones, I’m back on the blog just in time to spread a little festive love, warmth and creativity!

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May 17, 2019 REFLECTIONS / SEASONAL LIVING

Spring Thoughts and Themes

Hello there lovelies and welcome to my new blog and website! I have transferred all of the posts from my

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May 2, 2019 SEASONAL LIVING

Signs of Spring

Originally posted 1 March 2019 Dear lovelies Happy March! After a week off from the blog and instagram, I am

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May 2, 2019 SEASONAL CREATIVITY / SEASONAL LIVING

Winter Making and Musings

Originally posted 1 February 2019 Hello lovelies Gosh, January really is the longest month isn’t it?! But here we are

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May 2, 2019 SEASONAL LIVING

Finding Joy in Winter

Originally posted 18 January 2019 Hello lovelies Here we are in cold, grey, dark Winter. It is sometimes hard to see

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May 1, 2019 SEASONAL LIVING

Five Go Summer Holidaying!

Originally posted 31 August 2018 Hello lovelies! This precious and unique time in our year, the Summer holidays,  is drawing

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May 1, 2019 SEASONAL LIVING

10 Ways To Truly Celebrate Summer

Originally posted 27 July 2018 Hello there lovelies! Last weekend, our diary was blissfully empty. We woke up on that

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May 1, 2019 REFLECTIONS / SEASONAL LIVING

My Dream One Year On

Originally posted 1 June 2018 Dear Lovelies It has been exactly a year since I began blogging as Lucylu dreams

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Current to do list! I know it’s past mid-February, but here I am preparing the February edition for #scrolloftheyear Hand printed, collaged and embroidered textile pages for what will be a small fabric book. These were the pages that made something click for me in my work. Cutting up cloth (in this case hand printed by me and my son), building a background to create a collage and then stitching on top in striking black embroidery thread felt and looked right to me somehow. I created the botanicals and shapes on this piece by sketching directly onto the fabric with a heat erasable pen. The results of my experimentation are most often image-rich pieces that hold stories, such as Scroll of the Year. A little flower for the weekend. Stitched using the humble back stitch on remnant fabric and felt. Simple joy. Two more pages from what will be a collaged, slow stitched and embroidered textile book. These feature primroses, my sweet Mum's faves and the shoes I can imagine she wore when primrose picking with her sister as a child. And houses. You'll see these popping up a lot in my work. You can read yesterday's caption to find out why. Another one from January #scrolloftheyear before I get properly stuck into February. Check out yesterday's reel to see my visual journal so far. This image is about a house and the sea. It's been a long time coming but it looks more promising every day that we will be moving soon and the sea is beckoning. I am constantly day dreaming of being by the sea and being free. When the time comes, I'll be partying with the seagulls, whom I'm convinced I can hear calling me home. Scroll of the Year is a visual, textile diary or journal of moments and memories. Month by month I am documenting in fabric and thread small and simple joys, my feelings, dreams and hopes. From my heart and mind, to my sketch book and then to fabric, each image holds significance however small, in my day, life and world. This is January. Head over to my blog for the gallery of stills, with a few details of the story behind each image I have hand stitched with love. This is the third project I am working on - another fabric book, but with larger pages (see yesterday's post). If you've been following me for a while, you may recognise the kingfisher, who keeps popping up in my work. His creation was originally inspired by sightings of a kingfisher one summer whilst swimming in the ladies pond on Hampstead Heath. The floral design is inspired by vintage sanderson fabric, snippets of which you can see collaged here. The style of my work and the processes I use have evolved over the years and I seem to have arrived somewhere that feels like home. I am typically drawn to a combination of fabric collage and embroidery and I am inspired by nature and the simple joys in life.

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