I supply kits for my Mountmellick classes and I expect that all students will have one of these kits. I don’t consider them to be optional. There are good reasons why, and its nothing to do with me making a bit of extra money on supplying a kit. Its everything to do with making sure [...]
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Over the next two weeks I have 3 classes, so I’ll be just a tad busy getting ready for them, and then teaching them. On Friday this week I will be teaching a Mountmellick workshop at the Lake Macquarie Embroiderers Guild Group. Then the following Monday I will be teaching Portuguese Whitework at the Springwood [...] This is the third of the classes I will be teaching at Beating Around the Bush in April next year. To book into classes, please visit Country Bumpkin’s website, where you can book online. Class 52: Mountmellick Lily Cushion Thursday 19th and Friday 20th April 2012 Learn to work traditional whitework embroidery from Ireland. Mountmellick [...] When I was at the craft show back in June, I met a lovely lady called Alison. She was quite interested in Mountmellick embroidery and wanted to give it a go. Her project of choice was my “Blackberry Doily” from our book “Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature”. Alison isn’t normally an embroiderer as such, more [...] If any of you are in Hobart (or nearby) you might like to know that I will be teaching a Mountmellick embroidery class at A Stitch in Time on 29th and 30th of September. The project will be my Honeysuckle and Rose Doily. You can find out more details and book through the shop itself: [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] On Tuesday and Wednesday I was in Maitland (in the Hunter region, north of Sydney) for two classes. One was a two day Mountmellick workshop, and the other was a two hour evening class where we played with some unusual embroidery stitches. By all reports and by the responses I heard, people really enjoyed the [...] I took my Portuguese whitework with me to Singleton, to work on the rather long train trip. During the class, I was talking with the ladies about good hoops for Mountmellick embroidery, and explained that deep hoops such as mine are really good for Mountmellick because they have more wood to grip onto the fabric [...] This is the Mountmellick doily I’ve been working on over the last few days. It was a lovely project to work and really helped my emotional wellbeing. If you didn’t read the comments from yesterday’s post, please do take a look at Lakaribane’s blog post, about her experience of healing from sewing following the devastating [...] |
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