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Just in case you haven’t been reading the comments from Friday’s post, I’m making this into a post of its own, because it contains Really Useful Information. After showing you my damp stretching set up on Friday, Kathryn asked for a better description of “spongy mats” – a great question! I have heard of people [...] I finally finished all the hemming yesterday. I’ve now got the tablecloth soaking in a bucket so that I can carefully go around the whole thing and remove the wash out pencil marks. I’ve found that unfortunately, due to the density of the bullion stitches, the wash out pencil marks don’t simply disappear in [...] This is a technique that was discovered by one of my students up at Maitland recently. For the traditional Mountmellick embroidery knitted fringe, we generally use four balls of knitting cotton together to provide a very full fringe. Rather than dividing a single ball into four, the student wondered if she could use two [...] 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 [...] When you try out a new stitch, what do you do? When I try out a new stitch, I try to play with it as much as possible. In my playing with unusual stitches class in Maitland last week, my aim for the students was to get them to try some new stitches, and then [...] When I was studying at uni, for some reason it was requested/suggested that I have amongst my supplies a blue lead mechanical pencil. By mechanical pencil I mean those ones that you click and the lead pushes up through the middle. Because the lead is fine, you don’t get thick, heavy lines, and nor do [...] Yesterday I received an order of The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion from a lovely lady who told me about the circumstances that resulted in her purchasing the book: Last year I attended a course at [a patchwork shop], to do with hand-appliquéing designs. There were 3 left-handers out of 12 participants, and one had your book [...] Yesterday I was considering doing some embroidery in red thread. It was Presencia brand perle, which I have not used before. So before I even put it anywhere near the white fabric I was going to use, I wanted to test its colourfastness (or “colorfastness” for those who prefer to spell it that way!) I [...] As a follow up to yesterday’s little challenge of the disappearing lines, I felt that I needed to come up with a fully workable solution, seeing the project is going into a magazine. I can’t imagine that putting, “if you use a water-soluble fabric marker you’ll need to get the whole thing stitched within a [...] I think I’ve mentioned once or twice on here and on the Vetty Creations Facebook page that I’ve been working on stitching some butterflies for a magazine project. Its been a delightfully restful project that has been something that I have picked up from time to time when I’ve a spare minute. The other day [...] |
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