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finished Hardanger bookmark

Here’s the finished Hardanger embroidery bookmark. This is a thank you gift for Gillian, giver of the beautiful Turkish scarf.I used a new type of finishing for it, that I thought up in a lucid moment the other day, and was pretty pleased with the result.

I’m not entirely happy with the fact that the Algerian [...]

June 3rd, 2010 | Category: Embroidery classes, designing, hardanger, making stuff, public thanks, teaching embroidery | 7 comments

a suitable thank you

I have been working on a thank you gift for Gillian, who presented me with the beautiful scarf from Turkey.

I’ve decided that a suitable gift is a bookmark, with Hardanger embroidery worked on it. I have no idea if she has any interest in embroidery, therefore if it is a bookmark, she can choose to [...]

June 1st, 2010 | Category: designing, hardanger, public thanks, whitework | 8 comments

a beautiful gift

A lady from my biblestudy group recently went to Turkey to visit relatives of hers. Before she went, I jokingly said “bring me something back from the textile markets!” And of course, I thought nothing more of it.

But, she did think more of it.

Yesterday she was back at biblestudy, fresh from her trip. She deposited [...]

May 29th, 2010 | Category: public thanks | 4 comments

Public thanks: Phil Bush

When I was at school, apparently I told my mum in about Year 10 that I wanted to be a book designer. I don’t remember doing this. When it came time to choose what I wanted to do after school, there were a few options that appealed to me: graphic design and science – perhaps [...]

May 13th, 2010 | Category: public thanks | 3 comments

public thanks to Belinda

When we started planning to go away for three months, a big question for me was what I was going to do with my business for that time. I couldn’t just up and leave, or temporarily shut it down, as the beginning of the year is a time when many new classes start, and often [...]

March 31st, 2010 | Category: public thanks | 2 comments

more stitches for my left-handed stitch dictionary

Today I have had the pleasure of resuming work on my left-handed embroidery book. After a long run of bad health, things have improved so much that I feel well enough to work again. It’s quite exciting as I have been lamenting for some time that nothing has been happening with my book.

I spent the [...]

April 28th, 2009 | Category: embroidery stitches, left handed embroidery, public thanks, writing books | Leave a comment

Public thanks: Miss Gurney

I would like to pay tribute to one of my textiles teachers. Miss Gurney was my teacher for several years when I was doing Textiles and Design at school. She was a great teacher, and taught me a lot about machine sewing, hand sewing and hand embroidery.

Textiles was one of my favourite subjects at school, [...]

March 6th, 2009 | Category: embroidery musings, hardanger, public thanks | One comment