I love spots so I was very happy when my partner in this month's Inchy Hexie Flower Swap asked for spotty dotty hexagons. I didn't have to go out and buy fabric, I just needed to 'shop in my stash' as sweet Jenny from Elefantz would say.
I found some dotty ribbon to pop in too and another little parcel is off to the USA.
I sewed these hexie flowers while playing along with Cheryll at Gone Stitchin as part of Friday Night with Friends. Pop over and visit her if you'd like to see what some other bloggy friends stitched.
Have you ever had a grafted rose die above the graft and the root stock take over? Well I have and this is what happens if you leave the root stock to grow in your garden. Root stock is generally selected as it is very hardy, so this beautiful single rose has flourished with very little care. A gorgeous reward for giving it a chance to live on after its much more showy half was no longer around. 
An added bonus is that it is growing over an archway that leads to my vegie patch. It mingles with a white plumbago and a soft purple lavatera
Bees adore it so they congregate in this area and pollinate my vegies too.
I love mother and daughter team, Ella and Nesta of Ella and Nesta's Little Room. On Friday they shared the details of a wonderful Blog Hop which will start on November 20. Here's what they wrote:
The Creative Factory is a group of 30 Italian bloggers who have joined forces to present 30 tutorials dedicated to gifts and decorations for Christmas, from the 20th of November to the 18th of December. Every day you'll find the preview of a tutorial on the blog C'e' crisi, c'e' crisi! and the link to the blog hosting for the day. Many of the bloggers participating write in English and Italian so it's easy to use their tutorials!
Sounds very interesting and useful too. You can get the lovely logo on their blog.
My mind and stitching fingers have been occupied making Christmas gifts. I thought this gorgeous cushion would make a lovely gift.
Pop over HERE to read the fabulous tutorial at DIY Candy where there is always so much fabulousness to see.
Happy stitching
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Hi Mel lovely spotty dotty hexies,and I love your bush ,what a great idea to have it close to your vegie patch so the bees can pollinate the veggies,oh this Xmas link sounds like fun,Thankyou for sharing my friend,and I hope you are feeling much better Mel.xx
ReplyDeleteLove spots. The hexies are lovely. Love the rose bush. Beautiful. Hugs,xx
ReplyDeleteLove your spotty hexies! Brilliant. Thank you so much for the shout out. You always manage to surprise me!
ReplyDeleteAren't the roses beautiful this year!? I can tell yours is bringing much joy! And I have never met a spot I didn't like!
ReplyDeleteCute spotty Hexies and what a lovely rose....I have one at the front door that the root stock is beginning to grow & it has small single red flowers......so sweet like your pink ones
ReplyDeleteLove your spotty hexies. I have some roses just the same and they are always my best display. Xxx
ReplyDeleteGorgeous Rose bush and lovely hexies Mel x
ReplyDeleteLove your spotty hexies and thanks also for the Christmas link up will look forward to seeing what they come up with :) Barb.
ReplyDeleteLovely hexies and your rose bush is just gorgeous, I love the old fashioned looking single roses. xx
ReplyDeleteCute spotty dotty Hexies and ribbon. Beautiful roses. How full and pretty has it grown. That CHRISTMAS blog hop sounds great. Have to remember to follow.
ReplyDeleteYou find a lot of wonderful project sites and lovely gifts. Thankyou
Lovely dotty hexies! The exact some thing has happened to my one and only roses and I now have a very hardy burgundy single rose bush xx
ReplyDeleteYour hexies are lovely Mel so is your garden xx
ReplyDeleteLove your spotty hexies Mel. The blog hop sounds like such fun. Your archway is so pretty - lovely to have it close to your vegies
ReplyDeletespotty hexie goodness! what's not to love? :)
ReplyDeleteYour rose is magnificent. I remember our neighbour's having one just like it when I was a child. I would have been about 7. It grew as well as yours. You just don't see those ones. It's sort of a briar rose; the type of flowers you'd see in a hedgerow. Love it.
Great post, Mel - lovely flowers- and what a great pillow pattern! I used to sing "You are my sunshine" to my daughter when she was little. Somehow I think this pillow is in her future;0)
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Spotty heaven! I love that rose bush, Im guessing it would be considered a wild rose but I think they are so lush and beautiful and how lovely that its blessed you by blossoming despite the passing of its pal lol
ReplyDeletepretty hexies and I am so impressed with that stock root rose....
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Your flowers are gorgeous! And love the hexies, of course....it goes without saying. The pillow is darling too.
ReplyDeleteI've popped over from FNWF. What a good idea about the rose bush. It has beautiful flowers. The hexies are lovely. Love the spotty fabric.
ReplyDeleteLovely spotty hexies. And the roses are gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Spotty Dotty hexies to add to your others..
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