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Anna Scott of Country Bumpkin Publications and Yvette Stanton at the launch of Inspirations 70. Yvette is displaying an embroidered Ethiopian blouse Welcome to all those who have come to visit via the Country Bumpkin webletter! While you’re here, why not sign up to enjoy White Threads delivered to your inbox daily? Just click on [...] Yesterday I spent a wonderful day in Adelaide. I was there to be the guest speaker at Country Bumpkin‘s launch of Issue 70, speaking on my time in Ethiopia and particularly my visit to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital. This was to tie in with the article that I have written for Issue 70 on [...] Today I’m off to Adelaide to speak at the launch of Inspirations magazine Issue 70. I have an article in the magazine on my visit to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, when we were there at the beginning of last year. I also have a project in the magazine: a shadow embroidery curtain featuring fluttery [...] For those of you who celebrate Orthodox Christmas (as we marked last year in Ethiopia), I’d love to wish you a happy day celebrating Jesus’ birth with your family and friends. That’s all today. I’m having the day off. This time last year we were in the Simien Mountains in Ethiopia, enjoying the magnificence of God’s creation. It is really very strange to think that our Ethiopian experience was a year ago. The past year has been a really good one for me both personally and professionally. We had our fantastic Ethiopian sojourn, I [...] I’ve been absent without leave the last two days. You probably only noticed if your comments hadn’t been approved yet. We went down to Canberra to see the National Gallery of Australia’s Ballets Russes exhibition. It was wonderful! Of course, I couldn’t take any photos, so I’m sorry that there’s none to share with you. [...] 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 [...] This morning I was greeted by an email in my inbox from a lady in the Kenya Guild of Embroiderers in Nairobi. I didn’t even know that such a guild existed, though I’m pretty sure that there wasn’t a similar group in Addis Ababa. The Kenyan group recently had a workshop in Mountmellick embroidery from [...] We’ve just come back from a weekend away in Canberra, which is Australia’s capital city. We were visiting friends, and had a most wonderful time with them. On Saturday we went to Floriade, which is a free exhibit of very beautiful cold weather flowers such as tulips galore. Its an annual exhibition that’s been on [...] Firstly I just want to show you that I have not made much progress on my buttonhole edge around my Mountmellick embroidery stitch along cushion – but at least I have made some! The big news of the day is that there is an Ethiopian restaurant in Sydney! The African Village Cafe and Restaurant 359 [...] |
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