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my favourite stitches

Because I have set you the challenge of thinking about your favourite stitches, I have been considering what mine are. Its not so terribly easy, is it?!

So the easiest thing for me to do was to look through my left and right-handed stitch dictionaries. So here’s my list:

up and down buttonhole stitch (p28) […]

August 6th, 2010 | Category: embroidery musings, embroidery stitches, favourite needlework items, stitch dictionary, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | 5 comments

SAL: opening lily flower

Today, after a little break to hopefully help those who need to catch up to do so, we’re back to our Mountmellick embroidery stitch along. We’re moving on to the opening lily flower. I’ve decided to work this one in cable plait stitch.

Cable plait stitch is one of three stitches that are said to […]

August 1st, 2010 | Category: designing, embroidery stitches, mountmellick embroidery, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature, stitch along, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | 6 comments

playing with feather stitch

I was working on my exhibition embroidery recently and decided to test something that I had been wondering about. I had been pondering what would happen if you worked a feather stitch, stab-wise (ie, not scooping), but instead of just bringing the needle up inside the curve of working thread, you wrapped the thread round […]

July 25th, 2010 | Category: embroidery musings, embroidery stitches, stitch dictionary, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | 2 comments

my congenital disposition

My husband brought the local newspaper in from the letterbox on Thursday morning. As I ate my breakfast, I paged through it. A little way in, (definitely further than page 3…) I was shocked to turn the page and find myself smiling back at me!

A long-lost article about me and my left-handed stitch dictionary […]

July 17th, 2010 | Category: embroidery musings, left handed embroidery, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, writing books | 2 comments

Going in a exhibition

I’ve decided to enter an embroidery in an exhibition. The Embroiderers’ Guild of NSW, of which I am a member, is having an exhibition called “Stitch + Stitch = Magic” in September. Its focus is contemporary, innovative embroidery and design.

The entry forms have to be in by tomorrow, Friday, so I posted mine off […]

July 15th, 2010 | Category: embroidery musings, making stuff, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | 3 comments

Teach yourself Hardanger embroidery

Thank you to all those who have commented on my idea for a beginners Hardanger booklet. It has been interesting reading why you think it would be helpful to you – such as that you’d like to use a booklet like that while travelling. This makes me think that you’d like it in a smallish […]

July 12th, 2010 | Category: Elegant Hardanger Embroidery, hardanger, teaching embroidery, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, writing books | 7 comments

Right-handed stitch dictionary now available!

Ta Da! The Right-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion: a step-by-step stitch dictionary was delivered yesterday afternoon. That means I will be posting all orders today, and all future orders will be posted as they are received.

The Right-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion came about because The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion was receiving such rave reviews from both left and right-handers, […]

July 8th, 2010 | Category: new products, stitch dictionary, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | 4 comments

Right-handed book arriving this week

Not much to say today. I haven’t been well – been sleeping, knitting and keeping warm. But I thought that you would like to know that failing dock strikes (and they haven’t happened around here in many a year) or such things, my shipment of The Right-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion should be arriving some time this […]

July 5th, 2010 | Category: new products, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | 4 comments

turning versus mirroring

Yesterday I had an email conversation with a friend who is left-handed. She has a copy of my book The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion (and loves it), but she’s about to do some highly technical historical style stitching for which there are no stitch diagrams and instructions in left-handed available.

She asked me if mirroring will […]

July 1st, 2010 | Category: embroidery musings, embroidery stitches, hints and tips, left handed embroidery, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | One comment

Mountmellick embroidery in Ireland

A little while ago, Angelina from Ireland commented on one of the posts on this blog. She told us that she and the ICA group that she is part of, are currently learning Mountmellick embroidery in Ireland. I was so interested that I asked her to share some more with me and all you lovely […]

June 26th, 2010 | Category: customer embroidery, embroidery stitches, Introducing..., mountmellick embroidery, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature, mountmellick supplies, teaching embroidery, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | 2 comments
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