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One afternoon a couple of months ago, I was sitting in traffic in the car, listening to the radio. For some reason I suddenly had a flash of brilliance: why not make my stitch dictionaries into apps for smartphones? I don’t even know that they were talking about apps on the radio. I don’t think [...] On Friday I received my copy of the latest issue of “Inspirations” magazine. In it I have a new Hardanger project published. The project was a collaboration between me and Janie Hubble. At the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair last year I found some lovely scrummy Cottage Garden Threads colours and felt that I just [...] Over the next few days I have to get stuck into some class proposals. I’ve had a few letters over the past months asking for class proposals, but just haven’t had the chance to do anything about them. Thankfully the submission dates have not yet passed. These are for classes into 2013, which seemed such [...] I spent a bit of time on Friday and Saturday working on a video preview of “Portuguese Whitework”. It’s been quite fun. I have no idea about video – my brain designs better in two dimensions – even though I did some really basic stuff at uni when I did my design degree. At the [...] I spent some time on the weekend taking more photographs of embroideries for “Portuguese Whitework”. I took delivery of the cupcakes I had ordered from a friend so that I could use them as props for one of my photos. They were absolutely gorgeous, and I was really pleased with how the resulting photo of [...] I feel like a lot of my dreaming time was filled with making bullions last night. Perhaps that reflects how many I have done recently? It reminds me of the nightmare I had when I sent my stitch dictionary off to the printers. I think that my day job is invading my sleep too much! [...] Because the advertising for next year’s Beating Around the Bush conference is now out, I have already had a few enquiries for the kit for the Hardanger Bookmark that I will be teaching. I think it is lovely that people are keen to try this project, but the kit is not yet available. I have [...] A little while ago we purchased a new iron as our old one had gone up in a puff of smoke. The one we purchased had a really bad design fault: the cord came out the bottom of the iron and interfered with the stability of the iron when it sat upright on the ironing [...] If any of you are in Hobart (or nearby) you might like to know that I will be teaching a Mountmellick embroidery class at A Stitch in Time on 29th and 30th of September. The project will be my Honeysuckle and Rose Doily. You can find out more details and book through the shop itself: [...] Just wanted to show you that there’s a reason for having very little to say at the moment – I’ve just been too busy with technique pages for my Portuguese Whitework book. So here’s a page from the book that I did yesterday. To give you an idea of how slow-going it can be, I [...] |
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