Hobart fun

Tomorrow and Sunday I will be teaching a Portuguese whitework class at A Stitch in Time, here in Hobart. I’ve actually been here a few days now, and have enjoyed some of the sights.

Yesterday I had the delight of finding an “Edwardian carver cloth” in an antique shop. Despite the guy who sold it to me continually referring to it as lace, there is no lace on it at all. It is actually a lovely example of Mountmellick embroidery, sans the knitted fringe.

The design is one I have seen before, indeed it is shown in the introductory section of our book “Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature”, though with different choices of stitch placement.

The fabric is lovely finely woven cotton sateen. I’ll share a photo of the cloth with you when I get home.

Today I found some gorgeous red and gold brocade fabric which I would like to use to make an evening jacket. As part of my pattern drafting course we have to make a lined jacket, so if the teacher thinks it is appropriate, I’d like to use this fabric. It is just so so yummy!

I’m looking forward to my class tomorrow. Some of the students I have met before at previous classes at the shop and also Beating Around the Bush. And there will be new students to meet as well. We’re going to have a lovely couple of days.