About Me and My Needlework

Nadezda   


 
 
Hi! I'm Nadezda a garden author since 2011, started this blog so that I wanted to share my love of gardening with others. There are over 100 articles on gardening, planting, some features of my garden landscape design, maintenance,  soil, seedlings, art and nature. 
I'm interested in travel to Botanic Gardens and parks, in talking about my city Saint Petesburg, Russia. 
My family has a small summer house in suburbs of the city, not far from the Golf of Finland.  My garden is my small paradise on earth, I spend there a lot of time from April till October.

My big hobby (after blogging and gardening) is cross stitching. I love embroidering, and have some cross stitching pictures. I've done them in winter days when the weather is awful, very cold and I can't visit my lovely wintry garden. Here are my cross stitching pictures by John Clayton pattern made in 2010-2017.

2010 -2012:

"Cottage Window", 
"Saint Petersburg bridge",
"Waxwing", 
"Lighthouse", 
"Corn Mill" 
 









Winter 2013
My embroidery 'Alpine meadow'  by the John Clayton pattern



January 2014 
I made the picture 'Portofino' by designer John Clayden pattern. It recollected me my summer holiday on the Majorca island.
The photo below shows different stages of the work:
  







Winter 2015-16:
My next embroidery was the pillow case for a living room cushion. I liked the pattern called 'Scandinavian pillow' although it was made with big difficulty, wasn't too easy.




The winter 2017-18
I couldn't choose any embroidery a long time. I have been disliking all that I had seen in catalogs and sites. And one day suddenly I've seen a pattern that combined cross stitching, beads and ribbons embroidery. I decided to try and here it is 'Wild berries and flowers':




The winter of 2018-19, I was fond of knitting. This new hobby unexpectedly appeared when I was delightful with a lot of different colored skeins of threads on the shelves of a shopping center. I bought the brightest skeins of thread, in one color and striped threads.
Here are the striped blue-white-gray scarf and green-yellow shawl:





The winter was enough cold so I've done two plaids, one big, bright and a smaller one, purple-blue-white-yellow:

34 comments:

  1. IndieJune 11, 2012 at 11:14 PM

    Beautiful! I especially love the last one. My mom also loves to do counted cross-stitch, but I was never very good with a needle!

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    1. NadezdaJune 12, 2012 at 9:05 AM

      Thank you, Indie!The "Corn Mill" is made by the John Clayton drawing, I loved and did it all the winter.

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  2. AnonymousJune 19, 2012 at 4:37 AM

    Hello Nadezda, Thank you for visiting my blog. Your needlework is beautiful. I enjoyed the pictures of the flowers in your garden. Look forward to seeing more of your garden paradise. Jonna

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  3. garden girlJuly 4, 2012 at 4:21 PM

    Beautiful needlework, Nadezda! I used to do a lot of cross-stitch, embroidery, and crochet. I should take it up again!

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    1. NadezdaJuly 4, 2012 at 4:52 PM

      Thank you, Girl! I'm glad you liked my cross stitch, it's enough laborious work.

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  4. KarenJuly 13, 2012 at 10:09 AM

    Hello Nadezda, thank you for visiting my blog. I love your needlework. You have a great talent, each intricate stitch is perfect. I love the windmill and the kitty looking out the window. They are all beautiful!

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    1. NadezdaJuly 13, 2012 at 2:33 PM

      Thank you, Karen, for stopping by! Yes, there are many intricate stitches in my works. Some of them are of two threads of different close in tone colors. My picture with cat looking at the window is very peaceful.

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  5. GertJuly 21, 2012 at 3:05 PM

    Oh Nadezda..you are so gifted I just love your work. I've never figured out how to do this. I love to embroidery however...but I'm like you, normally I do it in the winter.

    Hope you have a blessed day.
    Gert

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    1. NadezdaJuly 21, 2012 at 8:46 PM

      Thank you, Gert! I love the embroidery and do it every winter day, by 2 or 3 hours, no longer. It's enough tedious work.

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  6. KukkaiselämääAugust 27, 2012 at 2:33 PM

    Fine needlework! Do you have models or do you find out those figures by yourself?

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    1. NadezdaAugust 27, 2012 at 3:53 PM

      Thank you, Satu! Of course I look for the models, pictures, I prefer them by wellknown designers such as John Clayton ("Corn Mill") and others.

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  7. UnknownNovember 18, 2012 at 4:31 PM

    Wonderful to hear from another northerner!! Boom and Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.

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  8. ewarubNovember 19, 2012 at 9:22 PM

    Oh, what a wonderful work! And the waxwing is so nice :-)))

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  9. Beth at PlantPostingsDecember 4, 2012 at 7:03 PM

    Beautiful needlework! I see you like cats, too. Thank you for your kind comment on my blog. I'm glad I found your blog, too.

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  10. Vores haveFebruary 14, 2013 at 10:29 AM

    Nice thing you have embroidered. I have added me as a result of your blog. Wish you a good day :) Hanne Bente

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    1. NadezdaFebruary 15, 2013 at 7:07 PM

      Thank you, Hanne Bente for following my blog!

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  11. AnonymousFebruary 22, 2013 at 6:21 PM

    Wow your stitching isbeautiful, you are so clever. I bet it is very relaxing too!

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    1. NadezdaFebruary 23, 2013 at 11:13 AM

      Oh, it's pretty relaxation! I can think, remembering all good things, my garden, travel, etc while the hands are moving with needle and threads. Thank you,notjustgreenfingers!

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  12. Dewberry / AmanitaJune 26, 2014 at 11:08 PM

    Hello! I'm here for the first time and must say that I like your blog, you have a beautiful hobby :)

    I'll be visiting you,
    greetings from Poland!

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    1. NadezdaJune 27, 2014 at 10:32 AM

      Thank you dewberry for stopping by!
      I'll be read your blog as well!

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  13. AnonymousSeptember 7, 2015 at 1:48 PM

    If your flowers are anywhere near as lovely as your hand work, then your garden must be a beautiful spot to spend time. :-)

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    1. NadezdaSeptember 7, 2015 at 4:05 PM

      It is, you're right! I love spending time in my garden, it gives me inspiration for my cross stitching.

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  14. Nel sud del nordNovember 14, 2016 at 10:07 AM

    Hello Nadezda! What a nice pictures and what a nice hobbies, I like your blog!

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  15. LindaJuly 17, 2017 at 7:08 AM

    I love the one with the snow and light posts, the second one on the page. Nice work.

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    1. NadezdaJuly 17, 2017 at 10:05 AM

      This work is dedicated to Saint Petersburg winter, Linda. It's made by woolen threads.
      Thank you!

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  16. Lisa at GreenbowMarch 8, 2018 at 5:32 PM

    I like the combination of ribbon and embroidery. The ribbon really makes the photo come alive. I love embroidery but I am not very good at it.

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    1. NadezdaMarch 10, 2018 at 10:02 AM

      It was my first experience in ribbon and beads and I liked it as well. Thank you Lisa!

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  17. SandiSeptember 12, 2021 at 1:00 PM

    This is true talent.

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