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 [...]
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Recently I found some lovely reviews of my stitch dictionaries at Amy’s Golden Strand, the website of Amy Bunger. About The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion, Judy Rogers and Jill Wilensky commented: As a left-hander, learning how to do some of the more complex stitches is not as simple as just “flipping” the diagrams and substituting [...] This story was told to me possibly third hand, so I’m not completely sure of its accuracy, but its a good story anyway! A family friend was recently at her local embroidery shop, just having a quiet browse. I know the shop in question, and its a lovely shop to have a quiet browse in! [...] 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 I received an order of The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion from a lovely lady who told me about the circumstances that resulted in her purchasing the book: Last year I attended a course at [a patchwork shop], to do with hand-appliquéing designs. There were 3 left-handers out of 12 participants, and one had your book [...] A few weeks ago I received an email from a lady in Canada who wanted a copy of The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion. A friend of hers was coming to Sydney on a visit, and had agreed to purchase her a copy while here and take it home to her. The lady wanted to know where [...] I’ve been spending some time over the last few days adding “like” buttons to my website (you can see one at the bottom of this post). I haven’t done all the pages yet, because it takes time, but I’m getting there! These buttons mean that you can “like” various pages of the Vetty Creations website [...] The other day I received my copy of the latest issue of Embellish magazine. Each quarter, Michelle who is one of the editors, sends me another garment for me to embroider. So in this issue I have another garment – a chocolate sleeveless blouse with ruffles on the yoke that were begging to be embroidered [...]
Parma stitch A week or two ago I was chatting with a customer on the phone and she asked about Parma embroidery, having seen that Parma stitch was included in my stitch dictionary. Not having actually seen the dictionary yet – she was calling to order one – she wanted to know if it [...] From Jennyflowerblue, an excerpt from her review about The Right-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion: These books are exceptionally clear in their directions and stitches are shown worked in all sorts of different ways and in sample to really give inspiration for their use. I am finding this book invaluable in my City and Guilds stitch samples. I [...] |
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