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gorgeous babushka doll

Last week when I was in Tasmania I wrote that I met Natasha of The Snow Queen’s Garden, and purchased one of her gorgeous handmade, hand-embroidered Russian babushka dolls. I promised pictures, so here they are!

The Snow Queen's Garden "Eau de Parfum" – all Natasha's designs are one offs. And of course, […]

October 6th, 2011 | Category: customer embroidery, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature, stitch dictionary | 4 comments

home again

I’m back home again today, for a very short while before heading off to Hobart tomorrow for a Mountmellick class on Thursday and Friday. Yesterday’s class went very well, up at Springwood. It is lovely to introduce a new style of embroidery to people and have them “get” it.

The ladies really enjoyed themselves. I […]

September 27th, 2011 | Category: customer embroidery, Embroidery classes, embroidery musings, Portuguese embroidery, teaching embroidery, whitework, writing books | 2 comments

Beaded blackberry doily

When I was at the craft show back in June, I met a lovely lady called Alison. She was quite interested in Mountmellick embroidery and wanted to give it a go. Her project of choice was my “Blackberry Doily” from our book “Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature”.

Alison isn’t normally an embroiderer as such, more […]

August 30th, 2011 | Category: customer embroidery, mountmellick embroidery, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature, teaching embroidery | 4 comments

merezhka book

Yesterday I was talking with a lady who wanted to order a copy of Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery for her friend. She said she already has her own copy and loves it. She’s taken the techniques and run with them, having recently completed a merezhka project that she adapted from filet crochet, featuring grapes.

I’ve […]

August 2nd, 2011 | Category: customer embroidery, embroidery musings, merezhka, Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery, writing books | 4 comments

beautiful merezhka

Merezhka bellpull from Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery by Yvette Stanton. Beautifully stitched by Lisa in Canada.

Lisa from Canada emailed me last week to show off her latest finished project: its the bellpull from my book Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery: Merezhka Poltavska. Hasn’t she done a sterling job? You can’t tell the difference between […]

April 29th, 2011 | Category: customer embroidery, historical embroidery, merezhka, Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery | Leave a comment

award winning Mountmellick

Firstly, today I want to say a heartfelt thank you to those lovely people who emailed me yesterday or posted a comment to encourage me. I really appreciate the time you took to write to me explaining why what I do has made a difference to your life. It does put things into perspective.

Yesterday […]

November 10th, 2010 | Category: customer embroidery, embroidery musings, Inspirations, mountmellick embroidery, whitework | Leave a comment

Learning merezhka

I was reading a needlework forum recently where some time ago a lady wanted to learn merezhka to put some on a sampler she was making. Many people directed her to websites where she could get the information. She used one of those websites for her sampler.

However, Mary Corbet and others also directed […]

September 24th, 2010 | Category: book reviews, customer embroidery, merezhka, Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery | 3 comments

Hardanger needlecase

Recently I received a lovely email from Marjolein in the Netherlands. Marjolein was wanting to share some pictures with me, of a hardanger needlecase that she has made, featuring one of the projects from my book Elegant Hardanger Embroidery.

Square sampler from Elegant Hardanger Embroidery, stitched by Marjolein from the Netherlands

July 31st, 2010 | Category: customer embroidery, hardanger, Inspirations, making stuff | 4 comments

Mountmellick embroidery in Ireland

A little while ago, Angelina from Ireland commented on one of the posts on this blog. She told us that she and the ICA group that she is part of, are currently learning Mountmellick embroidery in Ireland. I was so interested that I asked her to share some more with me and all you lovely […]

June 26th, 2010 | Category: customer embroidery, embroidery stitches, Introducing..., mountmellick embroidery, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature, mountmellick supplies, teaching embroidery, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | 2 comments

Anna Castagnetti: stitching in the air

When I put out the call for people who might like to share some of their embroidery with us, this week while I am at The Big Craft Show, Jeanine of Italian Needlework excitedly wrote to me about a colleague of hers, Anna Castagnetti. Following is what Jeanine told me about the wonderfully talented Anna: […]

June 17th, 2010 | Category: customer embroidery, embroidery stitches, Introducing..., whitework | 8 comments
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