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Ice cream hoops for Love Embroidery

Ice cream hoops for Love Embroidery

By Clare Albans / 30 Jul 2022

It was a pleasure to stitch these fun, textural ice cream hoops for Love Embroidery Magazine! It’s the perfect summer project.

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Top 50 Embroidery Stitches with Love Embroidery Magazine | Hello! Hooray!

Top 50 Stitches with Love Embroidery

By Clare Albans / 20 Jun 2021

So today I’m really excited to tell you more about the recent big commission I was working on. It was this Top 50 Stitches booklet with Love Embroidery magazine, and it’s free with Issue 16 in July!

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Crafty Colour Palette #6 | Hello! Hooray!

Crafty Colour Palette #6

By Clare Albans / 13 Jun 2021

Crafty Colour Palette #6 is inspired by David Seaman’s amazing technicolour jerseys from Euro ’96. If you haven’t seen them, they are a sight to behold and they definitely don’t make them as cool as this anymore!

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Brick and cross stitch hoop | Hello! Hooray!

Brick and cross stitch hoop

By Clare Albans / 07 May 2021

This week in The Happy Stitch Project, we’re stitching a really fun pattern on this brick and cross stitch hoop. Yay! It’s simple to stitch and is actually really therapeutic once you get into it.

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Mastering the bullion knot | Hello! Hooray!

Mastering the bullion knot

By Clare Albans / 23 Apr 2021

This week in The Happy Stitch Project, we’ll be mastering the bullion knot! 💪 I tried these a couple of weeks ago and failed. It was so frustrating, and I thought that I might not ever be able to stitch them! But I’ve actually worked out why that is now (after a big discussion with…

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How to stitch a cable stitch | Hello! Hooray!

How to stitch a cable stitch

By Clare Albans / 26 Mar 2021

This week in The Happy Stitch Project, I’m showing you how to stitch a cable stitch. It’s a bit like stem stitch from week 8, but you alternate the sides of the loops when making the stitches and this gives a slightly thicker effect.

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Happy Stitch hoop templates | Hello! Hooray!

Happy Stitch hoop templates

By Clare Albans / 07 Jan 2021

The Happy Stitch Project is in full swing, and in today’s post I’m sharing these Happy Stitch hoop templates with permission from Helen from @unicornfactoryuk!

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The Happy Stitch Project | Hello! Hooray!

The Happy Stitch Project

By Clare Albans / 01 Jan 2021

Welcome to The Happy Stitch Project! I’m so excited to be launching today – yay! This whole project basically came about when I got stuck in a creative rut a couple of months ago, and I knew that I wanted to come up with something to get me out of it. It was during a…

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Crafty Colour Palette #5 | Hello! Hooray!

Crafty Colour Palette #5

By Clare Albans / 09 Aug 2020

It has been a long, long time since I put together a new colour palette! I had such a lot of fun creating Crafty Colour Palette #5, which is inspired by my garden.

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Introducing Colourful Fun Embroidery | Hello! Hooray!

Introducing Colourful Fun Embroidery!

By Clare Albans / 11 Jul 2020

I am so excited to be sharing this post today. Introducing Colourful Fun Embroidery – my first book! 

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Life in lock down | Hello! Hooray!

Life in lock down

By Clare Albans / 25 Jun 2020

Well, I wasn’t expecting to write a post with the title ‘Life in lock down’ in 2020, but I’m guessing that this is pretty much how we all feel about the current situation!

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Hello! Hooray! my new look website launch

My new look website launch

By Clare Albans / 21 Nov 2019

It has been a week since my new look website launch, and I can’t believe how that time has flown! I had intended to write this blog post a little sooner to coincide with the launch, but life happens and it kept getting pushed back. I’m in full-on market prep mode for our Etsy Made…

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My goodness what a year and a bit | Hello! Hooray!

My goodness, what a year (and a bit)!

By Clare Albans / 26 Jun 2019

In 2018 I intended to write on my blog a lot more, and I set myself a little target of 4 blog posts a month (or something like that). It worked for a little while but then life got in the way. My goodness, what a year (and a bit)!

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Indie Rollercoaster Keep Going hoop

By Clare Albans / 22 Jul 2018

I was really excited to share my Indie Rollercoaster Keep Going hoop last week! 

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@hellohoorayblog Social Icons

Hand embroidered social media icons

By Clare Albans / 22 Apr 2018

I had an idea to make some hand embroidered social media icons for my blog absolutely ages ago, and this week I finished them! 

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A natter with Sew Sal | Hello! Hooray!

A natter with Sally Mayer from Sew Sal

By Clare Albans / 09 Mar 2018

Although we tend to moan about the algorithm quite a lot, you can’t deny that Instagram is an amazing source of inspiration! Today I am delighted to bring you a natter with Sally Mayer from Sew Sal.

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Brynn and Co LOVE embroidery hoop

By Clare Albans / 25 Jan 2018

I am a huge fan of Amanda Bryde’s work, and the Brynn and Co LOVE embroidery hoop has to be my favourite. 

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