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needlework and memories

I can’t remember if I’ve posted about this before, but its something that just crossed my mind.

I find it interesting how embroidery can become linked with certain memories, because of where you were and what was happening around you when you were making them. I have a Beth Russell needlepoint that I have been [...]

see more of my Elizabethan panel

I am very honoured that Jane Zimmerman has added a picture of my Elizabethan embroidery panel to her Guest Artist Gallery.

As you scroll down through the veritable treasure trove of delights including the works of such luminaries as Jane Nicholas, Tanja Berlin, Marion Scoular, Melinda Sherbring and Trish Burr, you’ll find another picture of [...]

Not plaited braid stitch? – revisited

You may remember a short while ago I posted about a certain piece of Elizabethan embroidery which may or may not have featured plaited braid stitch. At the beginning of the post I suggested that I might be about to display my ignorance. It seems that while I correctly identified that the main coiling stems [...]

Finished Elizabethan embroidery

Happy New Year to all my blog readers!

I have now finished my Elizabethan embroidery. It is unlike anything I have ever stitched before and I had so much fun doing it. This all came about because of a sort of personal challenge from Mary Corbet for me to include plaited braid stitch in my [...]

Benton and Johnson gold thread

For my current needlework project, I needed some gold thread for stitching plaited braid stitch.

A few days ago I had tried the 371 Jacobean Gold thread that I’d bought last week (a small amount of to test) and it was too thin and didn’t give good enough coverage. Then I’d tried some Kreinik #7 [...]

I’ve been doing embroidery!

The title of this post doesn’t seem particularly remarkable for someone who is a needlework designer and writes books about embroidery. However, I have been seriously ill for much of the last year, and during the worst times I have been unable to stitch. It has therefore been a wonderful thrill to me that I [...]

NOT plaited braid stitch?

Ok, I’m going to be a little controversial here, or maybe just show my ignorance…

I have been looking at the front cover of a book that I own “Three Hundred Years of Embroidery 1600-1900: Treasures from the Collection of the Embroiderers’ Guild of Great Britain” by Pauline Johnstone. On the front cover it [...]