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Hardanger needlecase

Recently I received a lovely email from Marjolein in the Netherlands. Marjolein was wanting to share some pictures with me, of a hardanger needlecase that she has made, featuring one of the projects from my book Elegant Hardanger Embroidery.

Square sampler from Elegant Hardanger Embroidery, stitched by Marjolein from the Netherlands

made up into a [...]

unicorn tapestries

I’ve recently finished reading The Lady and The Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier. It was interesting to read her fictional story of how the tapestries came to be, and the family and people around them.

I love the Unicorn tapestries. They are just gorgeous, and when we were in New York several years ago, we visited The [...]

Inspirations magazine articles and review

A new review for “The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion” has appeared on the Country Bumpkin website and in the latest edition of Inspirations magazine.

Here is an excerpt:

Every time a new embroidery book is published, a huge collective sigh of disappointment emerges from that most neglected group of embroiderers; the left-handers. This book should put a big [...]

Ackworth School samplers

Just thought I might mention that I have an article on Quaker samplers from the Ackworth School in the latest edition (#65) of Inspirations Magazine. Not that I have seen the eventuating article yet… I asked them to send my copy to me in Sydney, not knowing at the time, how good or bad the [...]

learning Mountmellick a sheer pleasure

I received a lovely email from a customer the other day, who has been teaching herself how to do Mountmellick embroidery. I include some of if below.
By the way, I haven’t sent a picture of the problem I was having with Palestrina stitch, but I did notice that the instructions in Inspirations magazine which is [...]

Supplies pack for Snow White Mountmellick tablecloth

Because people have asked for it, I am putting together a supplies pack for Snow White, the Mountmellick project that is published in the latest issue of Inspirations magazine (#62). You’ll need to supply your own copy of the magazine, as that has the pattern and instructions.

Included in the supplies pack are those listed as [...]

Snow White mountmellick – cable plait stitch

I have had a number of enquiries about the instructions for cable plait stitch, to use with the Snow White mountmellick tablecloth. The instructions for this stitch have not been included in the most recent issue of Inspirations magazine, in which Snow White has recently been published.

When Inspirations publishes a project, they often can only [...]

Snow White Mountmellick – link to images

As I promised, here is a link to some images of Snow White, my Mountmellick project in Issue 62 of Inspirations. If you scroll down to the bottom of the page, there’s a better picture than the very difficult-to-see one at the top of the page.

You can purchase all the Mountmellick embroidery supplies needed for [...]

Snow White Mountmellick Project

Today I received my contributors’ copy of “Inspirations” No 62, from Country Bumpkin. It is, as always, full of absolutely gorgeous embroidery.

I have a project in the magazine: “Snow White”, a Mountmellick embroidery tablecloth. I actually made this cloth some time ago, and when my friends at Inspirations called, asking if I could do a [...]