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Soprarizzo velvet in Venice

If you haven’t yet seen it, I have an article in the current issue of Inspirations magazine (Issue 83) entitled “The Velvet Weavers of Venice”. Quite a number of people have told me they really enjoyed the article.

As a follow up, for those who would like to see a bit more, I’ve just […]

October 18th, 2014 | Category: Inspirations, making stuff, travel | Leave a comment

Back from BATB

I had a great few days in Adelaide, attending Beating Around the Bush. I arrived on the Tuesday afternoon and set up my stand for the market day. I had shipped across two boxes of books and took a suitcase full of other stock, and samples to display on the wall. It meant that […]

October 7th, 2014 | Category: Embroidery classes, exhibitions, Inspirations, mountmellick embroidery, Sardinian Knotted Embroidery, teaching embroidery | 3 comments

Florence Broadhurst dress

You may have noticed the dress I was wearing in the photograph that I posted yesterday. At least one person did, because I received an email saying, “You should mention the lovely dress you are wearing in photo.” This suited me fine, because I was planning on talking about Florence Broadhurst today!

The […]

August 9th, 2014 | Category: Inspirations, magazines, making stuff, pattern drafting | Leave a comment

Mountmellick project in Inspirations magazine

On Friday I received a lovely surprise in my post office box. My copy of Inspirations 80 had arrived! This is the 20th anniversary of Inspirations magazine, and to celebrate they have 15 projects all by Australian designers, one of whom is me!

My project is a little biscornu, featuring Mountmellick embroidery. It […]

December 3rd, 2013 | Category: designing, Inspirations, magazines, mountmellick embroidery, published projects, whitework | Leave a comment

Inspirations scissor fob – part 2

Today I received my copy of Inspirations 76. It is a lovely magazine, as always. Deborah’s Mountmellick tablecloth is simply gorgeous!

In the project I have in the magazine – a Portuguese whitework scissor fob called “Squared Away” – I did discover one or two things that I felt were unclear in the diagrams, […]

November 19th, 2012 | Category: embroidery stitches, hints and tips, Inspirations, Portuguese embroidery, Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães, published projects | One comment

Inspirations 76 – Portuguese whitework scissor fob

Image courtesy of Country Bumpkin

Country Bumpkin have the new issue of Inspirations, Issue 76, up on their website. I have something in this one: a small scissor fob featuring Portuguese Whitework. If you haven’t tried Portuguese Whitework yet, this little project is a great way to start. And then you can move on […]

November 16th, 2012 | Category: Inspirations, mountmellick embroidery, mountmellick supplies, Portuguese embroidery, Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães, published projects | One comment

Adelaide book launch

While in Adelaide, I had the opportunity to launch Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães. Months before, I had talked with Fiona from Country Bumpkin about the possibility of doing this, but I wasn’t sure that it was going to be possible until I knew that the books were here in Australia in my […]

April 30th, 2012 | Category: Inspirations, new products, Portuguese embroidery, Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães, whitework, writing books | 2 comments

Hardanger Treasure Chest write-up

Last night, on a forum that I belong to, I read that someone had done a write-up of their experiences with making my Hardanger panel for the Treasure Chest project that’s in the current issue of Inspirations magazine.

You can find Jillian’s write-up on her blog, AlwaysStitching.

Congratulations to Jillian, on such a magnificent […]

March 22nd, 2012 | Category: customer embroidery, hardanger, Inspirations, published projects | Leave a comment

Hardanger step-by-steps

In the most recent issue of Inspirations magazine I have a Hardanger project – Treasure Chest – a collaboration with Janie Hubble.

One of the features of this design is needleweaving that has groups of three parallel woven bars. The process for doing these neatly so that the thread doesn’t show up obviously […]

March 7th, 2012 | Category: embroidery stitches, errata notices, hardanger, Inspirations, published projects, sewing tips | 4 comments

Treasure Chest hardanger project

On Friday I received my copy of the latest issue of “Inspirations” magazine. In it I have a new Hardanger project published. The project was a collaboration between me and Janie Hubble.

At the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair last year I found some lovely scrummy Cottage Garden Threads colours and felt that I […]

January 30th, 2012 | Category: designing, embroidery musings, hardanger, Inspirations, published projects | One comment
 
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