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Needlework cruise

A few weeks ago I tantalisingly dropped it into one of my posts that I had been invited to teach on a needlework cruise early next year. I am now allowed to spill the beans on that one!

From February 10th next year, I will be teaching Portuguese Whitework and Mountmellick Embroidery on a cruise […]

March 13th, 2012 | Category: Embroidery classes, Introducing..., mountmellick embroidery, Portuguese embroidery, travel, whitework | 5 comments

Fistula Hospital Walk for Women

Anna Scott of Country Bumpkin Publications and Yvette Stanton at the launch of Inspirations 70. Yvette is displaying an embroidered Ethiopian blouse

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May 8th, 2011 | Category: Inspirations, travel | Leave a comment

Launch of Inspirations 70

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 […]

May 5th, 2011 | Category: Inspirations, travel | 3 comments

Off to Adelaide

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 […]

May 4th, 2011 | Category: Ethnic embroidery, Inspirations, published projects, travel | Leave a comment

Happy Orthodox Christmas!

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. 🙂

January 7th, 2011 | Category: travel | Leave a comment

Happy New Year!

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 […]

January 1st, 2011 | Category: Portuguese embroidery, stitch dictionary, travel, writing books | Leave a comment

a few days in Canberra

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. […]

December 31st, 2010 | Category: exhibitions, travel | 3 comments

Latest issue of Embellish

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 […]

December 1st, 2010 | Category: magazines, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, travel | Leave a comment

I miss Ethiopia

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 […]

November 17th, 2010 | Category: embroidery musings, travel | 2 comments

A weekend away

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 […]

October 5th, 2010 | Category: exhibitions, travel | One comment
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