Some years ago (in fact long before we were married) my husband the Australian bought me an Australian Opal Triplet pendant. It’s really stunning, and when it catches the sunlight it takes people’s breath away. At about the same time, I received a Framecraft pendant blank with a magazine I’d bought, and found myself thinking [...]
Browsing the archives for the Cross stitch tag
10 Jun 11
7 Jun 11
Here is something else I have found in a heap of things to finish… This cotton tote bag with an aida panel across the front was a free gift with a magazine, several years ago. It must have been about the time I was designing the series “Inspired by Clarice Cliff“, and it probably seemed [...]
8 Mar 11
You may have noticed my glee last week at the launch at the “Stitches” trade show of two more “Designs Inspired by Clarice Cliff“. I enjoy designing for other people as well as myself, and it is always so satisfying when all the thinking, the planning, and the scrambling around the floor picking colours finally [...]
1 Mar 11
Some of you may recall that this time last year I was very excited because some designs I produced for Classic Embroidery had just been launched. Well, over the past year I’ve created another two, “On Guard” and “Swimming Swans”. They’ve been charted and test-stitched, photographed and the kits prepared, and now they are launched. [...]
25 Jan 11
Some years ago, I was asked by a magazine to design “my interpretation of buildings” in counted work. I produced three versions of the same thing – a set of steps in a Tuscan village, with plants in pots on the steps and a window looking over them. Then the magazine didn’t use them. Any [...]
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Tagged Cross stitch, experiments, overdyed threads, stitches
Tagged Cross stitch, experiments, overdyed threads, stitches
26 Feb 10
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 [...]
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