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Yesterday Lisa, visiting from Canada, and I visited the Love Lace exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum here in Sydney. I had SUCH a wonderful time. The first thing was that Lisa is a lovely girl, and I really enjoyed talking with her, sharing our similar loves of needlework, and expressing our horror of the same [...] I told you that I probably wouldn’t post this week, however, for Christmas I received a particularly special gift. Because I have only just gotten my drivers licence, for the whole of last term, I was taking Rainbow Girl to gymnastics on the train each gym day, and then coming home to Elder Daughter, [...] I had been planning on entering my Portuguese Whitework tablecloth in the Arts and Crafts section of next year’s Sydney Royal Easter Show. It is the embroidery that I have been most proud of in a very long time, and therefore wanted to show it off and see how it went in open competition. The [...] Let me tell you a little story. Some weeks ago Rainbow Girl started at a new gymnastics program. Its a bit further from home than our previous gym, and means we have more car time. We were driving to pick her up one evening a few weeks ago, and chatting as we drove along. Going [...] When we came back from our sojourn at the Gold Coast, I went looking for my sewing (dressmaking) scissors and could not find them anywhere. I looked all over my computer desk but they weren’t there. I looked all over my other desk but they weren’t there either. They weren’t in the lounge room or [...] Following on from yesterday’s discussion of my favourite threads, I’d like to have a bit of a whinge. For me, the holy grail of thread is a good red. Whenever I see a new (new to me) range of threads, I look to see their reds. Quite often, they are very lacking. While the range [...] I was thinking this morning about what my favourite thread is. Much of the time I think this depends a lot on the purpose for which you want it. Different types of threads are suitable for different projects. For me, perle thread is probably my all time favourite thread. That’s because it has a nice [...] Yesterday I had an enquiry about the wonderful embroidery hoops with stands that I sell: I wanted to ask whether the 8 inch is the one you find best to use. I looked up White threads again, and saw that you said you can order in other sizes. I have inflammatory arthritis in a number [...] I had the most marvellous weekend. On Saturday we had good friends from Ethiopia (though they are Australian actually) over for lunch and served them a yummy Vietnamese dish, which we figured they’d appreciate because Asian style food can be hard to concoct in Ethiopia. I don’t know that fish sauce makes it to Addis [...] I had a lovely trip to The Crewel Gobelin yesterday. I took my Portuguese embroidery to show them (they oohed and aahed appropriately!), and my current embroidery to find the perfect thread for it. I found a lovely Gloriana silk which will work beautifully. We were talking about the Portuguese embroidery and the linen that [...] |
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