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BATB: Mountmellick class

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 […]

September 7th, 2011 | Category: Embroidery classes, embroidery stitches, mountmellick embroidery, teaching embroidery, whitework | 2 comments

Beaded blackberry doily

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 […]

August 30th, 2011 | Category: customer embroidery, mountmellick embroidery, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature, teaching embroidery | 4 comments

Mountmellick in Hobart

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: […]

August 17th, 2011 | Category: designing, Embroidery classes, making stuff, mountmellick embroidery, Portuguese embroidery, teaching embroidery | Leave a comment

Booking classes

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 […]

July 29th, 2011 | Category: Embroidery classes, embroidery stitches, hardanger, historical embroidery, left handed embroidery, merezhka, mountmellick embroidery, Portuguese embroidery, teaching embroidery | Leave a comment

Mountmellick: knitting with four strands

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 […]

June 8th, 2011 | Category: hints and tips, historical embroidery, mountmellick embroidery, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature, mountmellick supplies | Leave a comment

back from Maitland

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 […]

May 12th, 2011 | Category: Embroidery classes, embroidery stitches, mountmellick embroidery | Leave a comment

hoops, Portuguese whitework and bullions

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 […]

April 14th, 2011 | Category: Embroidery classes, embroidery musings, embroidery stitches, favourite needlework items, mountmellick embroidery, mountmellick supplies, Portuguese embroidery, teaching embroidery, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | One comment

Mountmellick solace

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 […]

March 18th, 2011 | Category: making stuff, mountmellick embroidery, teaching embroidery, whitework | 3 comments

stitching happiness

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. […]

March 16th, 2011 | Category: embroidery musings, mountmellick embroidery, teaching embroidery | 4 comments

photographing needlework

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 […]

January 31st, 2011 | Category: hardanger, making stuff, mountmellick embroidery | 4 comments
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