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https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2013/12/advent-day-thirteen.html Fan My Flame: Advent :: Day thirteen Another Christmas tea cosy finished today. A request for a different text and a slight variation in design resulted in this... my flameadvent dayfanthirteen https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2008/09/ Fan My Flame: September 2008 A textile blog about food and family life ...and my creative journey. my flamefanseptember https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2012/02/comfort-zone.html Fan My Flame: Comfort Zone I'm not a very good example to my students. SPECTRUM, the group that I mentor have their first exhibition together, opening next week at Art... my flamefancomfortzone https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2013/05/ Fan My Flame: May 2013 A textile blog about food and family life ...and my creative journey. my flamefanmay https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-end-of-dress.html Fan My Flame: The End of a Dress Crikey... where did that week go? I seem to have gone from one Wednesday to another with just a flash in between. To be fair I have been aw... my flamethe endfandress https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2016/06/five-on-friday-snapshot-of-my-week.html Fan My Flame: Five on Friday... A snapshot of my week I'd like to report that I'm feeling perky and back to my usual self but I'm still struggling to pick myself up and get motivated... I need... five on fridaymy flamefansnapshotweek https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2016/01/thelma-and-louise-aka-gina-and-gill.html Fan My Flame: Thelma and Louise (aka Gina and Gill) In an ideal world, we should not live with our adult children. But the world is not ideal and for the foreseeable future there are currentl... thelma and louisemy flamefanakagina https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2011/08/back-home.html Fan My Flame: Back Home We've been to Italy We've eaten pizza on beautiful terraces overlooking little piazzas We stayed on the shores of Lake Garda (not in the... my flamefanback https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2016/02/book-club.html Fan My Flame: Book Club Are you an avid reader? Do you belong to a book Club? I can't remember a time when I didn't read. When we were young having money to spend ... my flamefanbookclub https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2013/03/crochet-cupcake.html Fan My Flame: Crochet Cupcake As promised... a pattern for miniature crochet cupcakes. A present from me to you on Mother's Day Using a 2 mm crochet hook a... my flamefancrochetcupcake https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2014/09/ Fan My Flame: September 2014 A textile blog about food and family life ...and my creative journey. my flamefanseptember https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2017/12/advent-2017-day-3.html Fan My Flame: Advent 2017 :: Day 3 I confess I have a bit of a magazine habit... especially at this time of year. I can't resist the promises of "Your easiest Chris... my flamefanadventday https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2015/01/ Fan My Flame: January 2015 A textile blog about food and family life ...and my creative journey. my flamefanjanuary https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2010/12/they-keep-on-coming.html Fan My Flame: They Keep on Coming... The left overs, that is. This time, ice cream made from a pint of double cream and a tub of custard that never got used, combined with a jar... my flamekeep onfancoming https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2010/12/day-eighteen.html Fan My Flame: Day Eighteen Today the tree has gone up... There have been one or two new decorations... which will be added to... the very many old favourites... su... my flamefandayeighteen https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2012/10/ Fan My Flame: October 2012 A textile blog about food and family life ...and my creative journey. my flamefanoctober https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-winters-tale.html Fan My Flame: A Winter's Tale Here we are almost at the end of another year and like many, I find it a time for reflection. I don't think any of us need another reminder... my flamefanwintertale https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2016/07/ Fan My Flame: July 2016 A textile blog about food and family life ...and my creative journey. my flamefanjuly https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2012/01/ Fan My Flame: January 2012 A textile blog about food and family life ...and my creative journey. my flamefanjanuary https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2011/05/moving-swiftly-on.html Fan My Flame: Moving Swiftly On... Thanks for all your lovely messages yesterday. I've felt horrible for a few days now and unable to focus on much creatively. In fact I've co... my flamefanmovingswiftly https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2016/05/mea-culpa.html Fan My Flame: Mea Culpa! I have a sometimes have a tendency to open my mouth and say things before I've really thought about it or thought about what I mean. ... my flamefanmeaculpa https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2011/08/colour-sketchbook-5.html Fan My Flame: Colour Sketchbook : : 5 As promised, some monoprinting. For those new to the technique it is a simple method of producing a "one-off" print or image from an inked p... my flamefancoloursketchbook https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2014/05/mr-happy.html Fan My Flame: Mr. Happy Nothing makes me quite so productive as the last minute. I'm fairly good at planning and organising what needs to be done but when it comes... my flamefanmrhappy https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2007/11/ Fan My Flame: November 2007 A textile blog about food and family life ...and my creative journey. my flamefannovember https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2014/11/sweet-sunday.html Fan My Flame: Sweet Sunday Because I often work weekends I really value a lazy Sunday with no pressure to do anything in particular... time to spend an ho... my flamefansweetsunday https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2011/06/theres-theme.html Fan My Flame: There's a Theme... going on this week... Inspired by the masses of daisies in the conservation area behind our house. Some machine embroidery on felted backgr... my flamefantheme https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2014/01/ Fan My Flame: January 2014 A textile blog about food and family life ...and my creative journey. my flamefanjanuary https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2013/12/advent-day-six.html Fan My Flame: Advent :: Day Six I have never really used my blog as a political platform or as a place to comment on news or world affairs, yet the death of Nelson Mandela... my flameadvent dayfansix https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2008/06/ Fan My Flame: June 2008 A textile blog about food and family life ...and my creative journey. my flamefanjune https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2011/04/postmans-knock.html Fan My Flame: Postman's Knock A while ago I mentioned that I was taking part in a postcard swap... well the swapping has begun! There are twelve bloggers taking part and ... my flamefanpostmanknock https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2020/12/ Fan My Flame: December 2020 A textile blog about food and family life ...and my creative journey. my flamefandecember https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2016/06/dithering.html Fan My Flame: Out of Kilter Last weekend I was away teaching at Missenden Abbey for what was my last ever City And Guilds weekend. I will be back for summer school in ... my flameout offankilter https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2012/04/looking-at-stars.html Fan My Flame: Looking at the Stars I've been back a week and I'm still having jet lag problems. I'm no longer having trouble sleeping but I am finding it impossible to stay aw... my flamelooking atfanstars https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2016/05/a-puppy-post.html Fan My Flame: A puppy post! As we have had Hector with us for a whole week now... a whole week where we have never had so many visitors, I thought it was time for a po... my flamefanpuppypost https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2013/06/glorious-colour.html Fan My Flame: Glorious Colour I can't really remember a time when I didn't enjoy working with textiles. Knitting, crochet, sewing and embroidery feel like something I ha... my flamefangloriouscolour https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2014/10/ Fan My Flame: October 2014 A textile blog about food and family life ...and my creative journey. my flamefanoctober https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2014/09/french-knits.html Fan My Flame: French Knits... Remember some time ago when I confessed to finding some knitting lost and forgotten about down the side of the sofa? No... well, it doesn't... my flamefanfrenchknits https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2014/05/small-pleasures.html Fan My Flame: Small pleasures Things that made me smile this weekend... The sponge cake that elicited a response of "Wow, you made a cake" as if I never usually do! ... my flamefansmallpleasures https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2011/12/another-one-bites-dust.html Fan My Flame: Another One Bites the Dust! After days and days of preparation Christmas Day has come and gone in a bit of a blur and was over before we knew it. I had a lovely day wit... my flameanother onefanbitesdust https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2017/12/advent-2017-day-9.html Fan My Flame: Advent 2017 :: Day 9 Having seen pictures pop up on Pinterest etc. this year, I decided to make gingerbread reindeer cookies. I put them on sticks to sell at th... my flamefanadventday https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2015/ Fan My Flame: 2015 A textile blog about food and family life ...and my creative journey. my flamefan https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2013/12/advent-day-sixteen.html Fan My Flame: Advent :: Day Sixteen Did you think I'd forgotten all about day sixteen? I've been busy all day! This morning I had an overwhelming urge to tidy up and cle... my flameadvent dayfansixteen https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2018/05/ Fan My Flame: May 2018 A textile blog about food and family life ...and my creative journey. my flamefanmay https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2014/05/weekend-preparation.html Fan My Flame: Weekend Preparation It was noted at home there has been a lack of baking of late... so I had a bit of a session this morning in order to keep the troups happy ... my flamefanweekendpreparation https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2020/07/out-of-sorts.html Fan My Flame: Out of Sorts How are you all? Well, busy, staying sane I hope. I feel I'm managing two out of three most of the time but life does feel strange and I fee... my flameout offansorts https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2008/11/distractions.html Fan My Flame: Distractions More lovely wiggly bags in great fabrics today - this time from Julie. Thank you so much! Thank you too for this little added present for m... my flamefandistractions https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2008/06/another-happy-birthday.html Fan My Flame: Another Happy Birthday! Next birthday... Joe (son no. 3!)... born nineteen years ago today at Watford General Hospital weighing in at a whopping 9lb 6 oz! Today Joe... my flamefananotherhappybirthday https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2011/08/festival-of-quilts.html Fan My Flame: Festival of Quilts Today I went to the Festival of Quilts. There were quilts... wonderful quilts. There was shopping... oh yes... there was shopping. But best... my flamefanfestivalquilts https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2016/05/five-random-things-on-friday.html Fan My Flame: Five random things on Friday! Five random things from my pretty random week... 1 Flowers Four weeks since I broke my ankle and my house is still filled with ... my flamerandom thingsfanfivefriday https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2012/11/angels-coasters-and-cookies.html Fan My Flame: Angels, Coasters and Cookies Today my Young Embroiderers have been making angels. Beautiful angels... Smiling angels... Pouting angels... ... my flamefanangelscoasterscookies https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2017/12/and-another-one-bites-dust.html Fan My Flame: And Another One Bites the Dust One the eve of another new year it is always nice to reflect on the year just past, something that blogging makes it easy to do. January as... and another onemy flamefanbitesdust https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2012/02/we-have-lift-off.html Fan My Flame: We Have Lift Off... Fortunately the roads were clear of snow this morning and despite a bit of shovelling required in the Art Van Go car park we managed to get ... my flamewe havefanlift https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2017/04/cambridge-cookery-school.html Fan My Flame: Cambridge Cookery School More food from me today... Once again I realise how fortunate I am to belong to that special group of food lovers that is Cambridge Eat... my flamefancambridgecookeryschool https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2017/10/my-quiet-weekend.html Fan My Flame: My Quiet Weekend Okay, I know the weekend seems a whole life time away and no doubt you are all looking forward to the next one but ... my flamefanquietweekend https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2016/12/advent-2016-twenty-four.html Fan My Flame: Advent 2016 - twenty four Well after twenty four days there's not an awful lot left to say except thank you to all my blogging friends and followers, especially thos... my flamefanadventtwentyfour https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2009/10/keeping-warm.html Fan My Flame: Keeping Warm It's that time of year when thoughts turn to keeping warm... and that includes little Innocent Smoothies. It's that time when all smoothies ... my flamefankeepingwarm https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2011/03/warm-undies.html Fan My Flame: Warm Undies? You may recall a month or so ago I posted a little preview of some knitting I'd been doing on the train (I'm getting to be quite brave about... my flamefanwarmundies https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-marriage-of-two-parts-part-1.html Fan My Flame: A Marriage of Two Parts - Part 1 We had no sooner come home from Greece from my eldest son's wedding than we were donning our glad rags once more for my second eldest son's... my flametwo partsfanmarriage https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2011/08/colour-sketckbook-4.html Fan My Flame: Colour Sketchbook :: 4 In the sketchbook project last year, I suggested using a small viewfinder to isolate areas of your drawings. Another more flexible way of d... my flamefancoloursketchbook https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2011/08/colour-sketchbook-6.html Fan My Flame: Colour Sketchbook :: 6 Another technique when monoprinting is to use resists. These can be anything such as torn strips of paper, cut paper shapes or one of my fav... my flamefancoloursketchbook https://ginaferrari.blogspot.com/2015/07/five-on-friday-my-week.html Fan My Flame: Five on Friday - My Week I bring you a pretty random selection of things I've been up to this week under the very convenient title of Five on Friday ! 1. Teac... five on fridaymy flamefanweek