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no longer procrastinating

I am no longer procrastinating! I think that I just needed to admit to myself that that is what I was doing, and that was enough to kick me into action!

Yesterday I spent some time with Kirsten Edwards planning for our joint stand (G32) at the Sydney Craft and Quilt Show at Darling Harbour, […]

May 14th, 2010 | Category: designing, published projects, writing books | 4 comments

Elegant Hardanger Embroidery online preview

Here’s the next online book preview: Elegant Hardanger Embroidery.

This time we have a preview of the cover, the inside front cover showing some of the projects, the contents, the first few pages of information, part of a project, the index, the inside back cover showing the remainder of the projects, and the back cover.

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April 10th, 2010 | Category: Elegant Hardanger Embroidery, hardanger, online book previews, published projects, writing books | Leave a comment

Left-handed book online preview

I’ve found a way of creating online previews of my books so that you can see a sample of the contents of my books. I have started with The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion.

It has a sample of pages: there are the front and back covers, the contents page, one surface stitch, a variation of […]

April 7th, 2010 | Category: left handed embroidery, online book previews, published projects, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | One comment

Supplies pack for Snow White Mountmellick tablecloth

Because people have asked for it, I am putting together a supplies pack for Snow White, the Mountmellick project that is published in the latest issue of Inspirations magazine (#62). You’ll need to supply your own copy of the magazine, as that has the pattern and instructions.

Included in the supplies pack are those listed […]

May 14th, 2009 | Category: Inspirations, mountmellick embroidery, mountmellick supplies, published projects | Leave a comment

Snow White mountmellick – cable plait stitch

I have had a number of enquiries about the instructions for cable plait stitch, to use with the Snow White mountmellick tablecloth. The instructions for this stitch have not been included in the most recent issue of Inspirations magazine, in which Snow White has recently been published.

When Inspirations publishes a project, they often can […]

May 13th, 2009 | Category: embroidery stitches, Inspirations, mountmellick embroidery, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature, published projects, whitework | 2 comments

Snow White Mountmellick – link to images

As I promised, here is a link to some images of Snow White, my Mountmellick project in Issue 62 of Inspirations. If you scroll down to the bottom of the page, there’s a better picture than the very difficult-to-see one at the top of the page.

You can purchase all the Mountmellick embroidery supplies needed […]

April 26th, 2009 | Category: Inspirations, mountmellick embroidery, mountmellick supplies, published projects | 2 comments

Snow White Mountmellick Project

Today I received my contributors’ copy of “Inspirations” No 62, from Country Bumpkin. It is, as always, full of absolutely gorgeous embroidery.

I have a project in the magazine: “Snow White”, a Mountmellick embroidery tablecloth. I actually made this cloth some time ago, and when my friends at Inspirations called, asking if I could do […]

April 17th, 2009 | Category: Inspirations, mountmellick embroidery, mountmellick supplies, published projects | 2 comments
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