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One week to go!

Embroidery by patients at the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital. All their care is provided free of charge. The patients sell their embroidery, basketwork and other crafts as a way of earning pocket money for items like soap.

There is only one week to go until the Walk For Women, raising money for the Addis Ababa [...]

June 4th, 2011 | Category: Ethnic embroidery | One comment

no turmeric dyeing

You’ll be pleased to know that I didn’t get any turmeric or berbere (bright red spice mix with paprika and chilli type colouring) on my tablecloth yesterday. In fact I didn’t get any embroidery on it either!

I did some planning for the surface embroidery – worked out the beginnings of a chart for it [...]

May 27th, 2011 | Category: designing, embroidery musings, Ethnic embroidery, making stuff, Portuguese embroidery, whitework | One comment

temari – if only I had more time

I don’t have much of my own to say today, so I’m directing you to a place where I go to drool and wish. If I had all the time in the world, I’d learn temari. Unfortunately, I don’t think I can fit much more into my life at the moment, so temari for me [...]

May 23rd, 2011 | Category: Ethnic embroidery, Introducing... | 7 comments

Off to Adelaide

Today I’m off to Adelaide to speak at the launch of Inspirations magazine Issue 70. I have an article in the magazine on my visit to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, when we were there at the beginning of last year. I also have a project in the magazine: a shadow embroidery curtain featuring fluttery [...]

May 4th, 2011 | Category: Ethnic embroidery, Inspirations, published projects, travel | Leave a comment

Working on the new book

I had a lovely day yesterday working on my next book. It was so much fun coming up with new designs, and getting things on to the pages of the book.

I’m not yet saying exactly what the book is on, but a description might help to keep you all happy: its another historical whitework [...]

August 26th, 2010 | Category: Ethnic embroidery, historical embroidery, whitework, writing books | 5 comments

Multicultural day photos

Multicultural Day went really well the other day. Apparently the injera got eaten happily.

For the last hour of the day, family and friends are invited to watch all the kids parade in their costumes. Its wonderful to see, and I often marvel at the Korean parents allowing their daughters to come in their amazing [...]

August 20th, 2010 | Category: Ethnic embroidery, historical embroidery, travel | One comment