I’m very excited this week (again!). I’ve done some counted cross stitch designs for Classic Embroidery, and on Tuesday I went to a trade show in the NEC, Birmingham, to see the designs up on the stand, and to talk about other possibilities for future designs and future collaboration. It was so satisfying to see [...]
Browsing the blog archives for February, 2010
26 Feb 10
23 Feb 10
I’m glad to say that stitching the Persian Fantasy screen was just as much fun as I hoped it would be! I didn’t follow the instructions in the magazine, not least because it called for “Anchor Flox” , and no-one I could find even knew what that was! I’ve since discovered that it was a [...]
19 Feb 10
There was a gentle thud of a parcel through the letter box yesterday. And Oh Frabjous Day, the Floral Glove Needlecase Course Kit has arrived! What with hair-raising weather (in the UK and the US) and a much more popular course than the organisers anticipated (a great problem to have!) it has taken a little [...]
16 Feb 10
There was one project in those magazines that I positively ached to do, but it was a four fold screen inspired by the Rubayat of Omar Khayyam and Grandmama did not have all of the four magazines that it was in. I resigned myself to looking wistfully at the picture, and got on with life [...]
12 Feb 10
I designed and embroidered this piece shortly after I was married. It was my first design for Our House, and I suspect it gave my husband fair warning (if he hadn’t already guessed) that furnishing it would not be a simple matter of a trip to a furniture shop! I took some of the motifs [...]
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Posted in General Embroidery
Tagged Jacobean Firescreen, ornamental stitches, overdyed threads
Tagged Jacobean Firescreen, ornamental stitches, overdyed threads
9 Feb 10
In October last year I went up to Durham for a weekend course in Elizabethan Embroidery with Tracy Franklin. She provided us with a kit of materials, including the design ready-traced onto a coarsely-woven canvas-like fabric fused to a muslin backing, and a good deal of tuition, advice, and demonstration, all fairly easy to see [...]
6 Feb 10
My grandmother first taught me to embroider (there must be thousands for whom that is true! ). She was an extremely skilled embroideress, who learnt when she was living in Westmorland during the war with her own two children, her sister and her sister’s children. Her teacher, Miss Hunter, has even passed in to family [...]
3 Feb 10
I’ve been spellbound by Tricia’s blog following the progress of the Plimoth Jacket Project, and the idea of learning to use some of the threads that were recreated for the project was absolutely riveting, so when I found out about the Thistle Threads Online University courses, I was thrilled. So I’ve signed up, and I [...]
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Posted in Floral Glove Needlecase
Tagged Floral Glove Course, online university, Thistle Threads
Tagged Floral Glove Course, online university, Thistle Threads
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