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I have been taking quite a number of bookings for classes for next year. I teach Hardanger, Merezhka (Ukrainian drawn thread work), and Mountmellick embroidery. I am also currently devising some classes based on teaching and experimenting with unusual and difficult stitches. I am an accredited tutor with the NSW Embroiderers’ Guild. If you would [...] Recently I have received several emails from people expressing their desire for more merezhka patterns as a follow on from my book Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery: Merezhka Poltavska. I would love to be able to do something about this, but I am really battling with the fact that there is still just one of [...] I will be teaching Merezhka for The Crewel Gobelin in August this year. It is a class suitable for beginners, though some experience with counted embroidery, such as cross stitch, would be an advantage. Merezhka is drawn thread work from Ukraine. Merezhka Poltavska is the name of this specific type of merezhka, which means that [...] The Dnieper River is the fourth longest river in Europe, and flows from Russia, through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. One of my customers recently wrote to me about a wonderful cruise that he and his mother had taken together on the Dnieper River and Black Sea. His 86 year-old mother explored the [...] Today I had a lovely email conversation with one of my customers. She told me why she had decided to purchase two books: Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery and Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature. I heard about you from a lady at my hairdressers. We have had the same appointment time for several months and [...] I’ve just been noodling around on the web and accidentally found a lovely review of my book “Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery: Merezhka Poltavska” on Amazon. Written by a lovely person named Sarah Danks from Springdale PA, it is extremely glowing. Here’s some of the review: …this is one of the best-illustrated books I’ve ever [...] I love receiving emails from people who say nice things about my books. Who wouldn’t?! They usually make my day! I have a favour to ask. If you love my books – any of them: Elegant Hardanger Embroidery; Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature; Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery: Merezhka Poltavska; or The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion: a [...] Because I do Ukrainian embroidery (merezhka), I sometimes get enquiries from people wanting to learn how to make pysanky, which are painted traditional Ukrainian easter eggs. They are completely and utterly gorgeous, and in another life, I’d love to learn how to make them too! (In the meantime, I’ll just enjoy looking at the creations [...] Yesterday I received my program/class list booklet for Country Bumpkin’s Beating around the Bush Needlework Convention. I’ll be teaching Mountmellick, Merezhka and Hardanger embroidery at it. Reading through the brochure, I can’t wait to go! I’ve never been to an embroidery convention before. I think it will be so wonderful to spend a week with [...] Over the past few days, in response to a personal challenge from Mary Corbet of Needle’nThread.com I have been trying out plaited braid stitch. It is notorious for being a Very Difficult Stitch. I’m wondering why… I didn’t find it all that hard. I had some basic instructions in Mary Thomas’s Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches. [...] |
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