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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 [...] Yesterday I spent the day stitching a new Mountmellick design for some classes later this year. I had a lovely time doing it, and realised how grateful I was to have a job that I love so much. I was having a chat recently with someone just before I was due to teach a class. [...] Today will be a busy day photographing needlework and either sending the photos off, or sending the needlework off. All the projects are for upcoming classes, some soon and some more than a year away! Some of the photos will need to be styled shots, some not. Some will be closeups of detail, to go [...] This is the last week of the school holidays here, and its going to be hot. It will be filled for us with last minute things to get done before school starts: dentist’s appointments, doctor’s appointments, and maybe a trip to the beach as my daughters really wanted to go some time during the holidays [...] I spent yesterday working on my current Mountmellick design which is to be submitted as a class proposal for Beating Around the Bush in 2012. I’m having fun! The design is more lilies (we did a lilies design for our Mountmellick stitch along last year) but this time I am using a combination of some [...] I had a wonderful day yesterday teaching merezhka to a lovely group of ladies in Springwood. They did a great job and produced some beautiful embroidery. A couple of the ladies in the group had already bought my book Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery and worked the large scale sampler (we were doing a project of [...] Yesterday my eldest daughter and I went on a fabric jaunt. We first took the train to Central and went to The Fabric Store in Surry Hills. This is a wonderful shop that has a wonderful range of fabrics, many of which are sourced from designers. Its not unusual to see “from Leona Edmiston” or [...] |
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