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Just a note to those who are likely to want me to come and teach for their shop, community or guild group next year. I am taking a lot of bookings – it seems people really want to learn Portuguese Whitework! – so if you’re interested, get in quick. I do limit my quantity of [...] Well, I really wasn’t planning on putting this up on the blog just yet. After all, its still way more than six months until the book will be released. But just yesterday I found a black and white picture of it on someone else’s blog. I can’t say I was pleased. However, I can’t withhold [...] 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 [...] I did it! Last night I finished the drawn thread work for the tablecloth for my Portuguese whitework book. What a feeling of accomplishment! One only slightly dampened by the fact that I now have about a million and one bullion knots ahead of me… The drawn thread work base just by itself looks gorgeous [...]
Merezhka bellpull from Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery by Yvette Stanton. Beautifully stitched by Lisa in Canada. Lisa from Canada emailed me last week to show off her latest finished project: its the bellpull from my book Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery: Merezhka Poltavska. Hasn’t she done a sterling job? You can’t tell the difference between hers [...] I’ve been steadily working on my next Portuguese embroidery for the book, and I know I say this all the time, but I am just loving it! It is one of the prettiest styles of embroidery that I have ever seen. It is just so appealing! Everyone that I show the embroideries to, comments on [...]
Stitch this snail for storage! Some time back I told you of Trish Nguyen’s project of stitching a reproduction snail from an old pair of embroidered gloves to raise money to house a collection of gloves. I ordered the kit just before Christmas and then promptly forgot about it, in the Christmas busyness. A few [...]
Stitch this snail for storage! If you haven’t been to visit The Embroiderer’s Story lately, I suggest you do. Tricia has a number of posts featuring close up photos of gorgeous old embroidered gloves from the Gloves Collection Trust, courtesy of the Fashion Museum, Bath and North East Somerset Council. They are simply stunning, and [...] The other day my husband (who is a school librarian) was telling me about a final year student and her textiles project. She wants to do a whole mermaid/under the sea themed outfit. Part of this was that she wanted to create a fishing net. He asked me to put it on my blog to [...]
Parma stitch A week or two ago I was chatting with a customer on the phone and she asked about Parma embroidery, having seen that Parma stitch was included in my stitch dictionary. Not having actually seen the dictionary yet – she was calling to order one – she wanted to know if it [...] |
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