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Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair wrap up

From Wednesday 17th to Sunday 21st of June, the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair was on at Glebe Island. This was my sixth year exhibiting! When you’ve been doing it that long, there are lots of faces you recognise and get to catch up with again, year after year. It makes it feel like you’re […]

June 27th, 2015 | Category: Early-Style Hardanger, exhibitions, hardanger, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature, new products, Sardinian Knotted Embroidery | Leave a comment

Mountmellick embroidery isn’t…

I’ve been wondering about posting something like this for quite literally years. It will probably be controversial. It will probably put some noses out of joint. For that, I am sorry, as I do not want to hurt anyone.

However, the reason why I’ve decided to speak up about this is because of the integrity […]

April 24th, 2015 | Category: embroidery musings, historical embroidery, mountmellick embroidery, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature | 8 comments

Mountmellick honeysuckle class and bushfire threat

On Sunday I’ll be teaching a one day Mountmellick class for the NSW smocking guild. The class is apparently much-anticipated, with the class bookings having filled very quickly. I’m sure we’ll have a great day together. Today I will spend the day preparing the class kits. We’ll be working on the honeysuckle doily from Mountmellick […]

October 24th, 2013 | Category: Embroidery classes, embroidery musings, mountmellick embroidery, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature | Leave a comment

Mountmellick everywhere!

Can someone please let me in on the secret? Why is it that pretty much all the books I am selling at the moment and nearly all the supplies are for Mountmellick embroidery? (I’m not complaining!) Did someone decide to make 2013 the year of Mountmellick embroidery, but forgot to tell me?

From all around […]

April 4th, 2013 | Category: embroidery musings, mountmellick embroidery, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature, mountmellick supplies, whitework | 4 comments

Mountmellick and Hardanger

I had a wonderful day yesterday teaching Mountmellick embroidery to a group of lovely ladies at Hobbysew, Penrith. We did the small honeysuckle doily from our book Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature. They did a great job, and some were very vocal about how much they were learning and enjoying the class.

Look […]

January 17th, 2013 | Category: designing, Embroidery classes, hardanger, mountmellick embroidery, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature, teaching embroidery, whitework | 5 comments

Mountmellick threads

Every now and again I post about Mountmellick threads. When people are wanting to try Mountmellick embroidery, they often come to me for supplies. You wouldn’t think that would be so strange, seeing I’ve written a book on the subject. However, I’m not sure that’s what draws them to my website. Sometimes, I think it […]

January 3rd, 2013 | Category: embroidery musings, hints and tips, mountmellick embroidery, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature, mountmellick supplies | Leave a comment

incidental book reviews

In the comments sections of Mary Corbet’s last two posts, one a review of my Portuguese Whitework book, and the other about left-handed Schwalm embroidery, there have been lots of lovely things said about my books.

For years I had a hard time embroidering and set it aside because it was confusing & frustrating to […]

May 7th, 2012 | Category: book reviews, left handed embroidery, mountmellick embroidery, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature, Portuguese embroidery, Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães, stitch dictionary, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | 4 comments

Barefoot Shepherdess

I have a number of alerts set up that let me know whenever they find certain search terms appearing new across the internet. One of them is for Mountmellick embroidery. One turned up this morning, so I went to visit the blog that was talking about Mountmellick embroidery: Barefoot Shepherdess.

You’ll see in the comments […]

February 21st, 2012 | Category: mountmellick embroidery, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature | Leave a comment

gorgeous babushka doll

Last week when I was in Tasmania I wrote that I met Natasha of The Snow Queen’s Garden, and purchased one of her gorgeous handmade, hand-embroidered Russian babushka dolls. I promised pictures, so here they are!

The Snow Queen's Garden "Eau de Parfum" – all Natasha's designs are one offs. And of course, […]

October 6th, 2011 | Category: customer embroidery, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature, stitch dictionary | 4 comments

BATB: stitchers village fair

As you’ve read through my class details for Beating Around the Bush over the last few days, if you were paying close attention to the dates, you may have noticed I will not be teaching on Wednesday 18th April. This is because there will be a Stitchers Village Fair on that day.

I will have […]

September 8th, 2011 | Category: Elegant Hardanger Embroidery, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature, Portuguese embroidery, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery | Leave a comment
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