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 [...]
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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 [...] 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 [...] Yesterday I finally got my gorgeous new embroidery hoops with stands up on my website. I wanted to really illustrate how versatile and useful they really are, so I took a series of photos ilustrating the different things that make them just a delight to work with. NB: embroidery and hoop binding NOT included with [...] In preparation for the craft show in June, I’ve been ordering in new stock. I’ve got some left-handed embroidery scissors, lumidome magnifiers, and some embroidery hoops with stands that you sit on. Hopefully I’ll get these added on to my website over the next few days before I go off to Brisbane this weekend, otherwise [...] When I was teaching merezhka on Monday I learned of some amazing products that I’d never seen before. They were small acrylic domes that you placed on whatever you needed to magnify, and because of the shape of the dome, it magnified it beautifully. There was no need to “position” yourself correctly, or try to [...] |
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