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July 2016: #Vintagepledge Guest blogger - A Stitching Odyssey

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one for sorrow, two for joy - Obscurae Magazine Volume 6 Issue 1

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I Want To Be A Turtle

A creative lifestyle blog which mainly focuses on my personal sewing, drawing and thread painting projects.

Claire

Self taught sewist, fabric hoarder and handmade wardrobe builder. Say hello:

iwanttobeaturtle@gmail.com

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The benefits of working from home: you’re super productive before 9am. The downside: the constant calling to finish the coat on currently on the dress stand

Spent the day tidying up the back garden. Still work to be done but good progress has been made. Swipe to see before.

Someone has been having fun with the pressure washer

Finishing a super relaxing weekend with some more hand stitching. This quilt has grown quite a bit!

In a week of bad anxiety and severe panic attacks around work, I’m spending a quiet evening getting reacquainted with a couple of my favourite things - my in progress hexie quilt and TOAD gin. There might be a pizza in the oven too.

Fabulous giveaway. I’m sure I could squeeze another machine into our house 😉
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Taking some time out of family hosting to begin thinking about a summer wardrobe. Some ideas are already bubbling nicely.

Relaxed afternoon making all the French seams in silk viscose

Fabulous five miles around the stunning Blenheim Palace grounds this morning for the #OX5run Added bonus: my race time was 8 minutes below what I had assumed it would be.