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Well, you’re not a very adventurous group, are you? I only had one response to asking if anyone could guess the five stitches in my Playing with Unusual Stitches class that I’ll be teaching tonight! Rachel suggested “Spiral Trellis and Palestrina stitch, maybe Herringbone? And Braid stitch”. Not bad, Rachel. The five stitches are: Cable [...] I’m not wanting to make my blog into a ranting political statement, but here’s my thought for the day: “I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already [...] I took my Portuguese whitework with me to Singleton, to work on the rather long train trip. During the class, I was talking with the ladies about good hoops for Mountmellick embroidery, and explained that deep hoops such as mine are really good for Mountmellick because they have more wood to grip onto the fabric [...] I’m thinking about new projects for my Portuguese whitework book, and I’m thinking about project applications. We probably all have our walls full of embroidery by now (and its expensive getting things framed), so what are some other items that you like to make when decorated with embroidery? I’m thinking cushions pillows bags runners mats [...] On Saturday I had a half day just with my younger daughter, age 6. She had expressed a very strong desire to do some embroidery with me. So we did. Firstly she drew a flower on some paper, and I traced it onto the fabric. We were using fabric and thread left over from my [...] I will be teaching a class in 2012 on obscure stitches and ones that people often feel are too difficult to attempt. Stitches like plaited braid stitch, spiral trellis, cable plait stitch (they’re the more difficult ones) and diamond stitch, crested chain stitch, spanish knotted chain stitch, and sorbello stitch (they’re some of the unusual [...] Here’s a picture of my niece’s shadow work lampshade in progress. (I think I’m fairly safe in posting this here, because I don’t think my sister reads my blog, so no cats will be let out of any bags.) I’m in the process of stretching it onto the frame, and when that’s satisfactorily done (which [...] Yesterday I received something very special in the mail. I have a friend whom I have never met, but we have a reasonable amount in common. We are both left-handed, share a love of embroidery and also a lack of love of prolonged serious illness. I don’t remember where we first “met”. Probably some blog [...] I have been enjoying continuing with all my bullion embroidery. I never expected to enjoy it this much, but am finding several things: that my first impressions of the style of embroidery are lasting – it remains as beautiful to me as I first thought it was that practice really does bring improvement when stitching [...] Yesterday I was sitting the backyard enjoying the gorgeous weather, working on some more bullions. I realised that the needle that I was using was a darner needle, and not a milliner’s needle. As you know, I, along with many other teachers of embroidery recommend that milliner’s needles (also known as straw needles) are the [...] |
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