Grandmama must have worked embroideries galore for her assorted grandchildren. This pyjama case with a chubby kitten on the front was worked for me – I think as a birthday present – when I was about nine, and I’ve rediscovered it among a host of other reminiscences of childhood. You can see the lingering “Make [...]
Browsing the archives for the Miss Hunter tag
20 Mar 12
13 Mar 12
My mother and I have been trying to make sense of the various boxes and bags that travelled from my grandparents’ attic to my parents’, and we’ve found all sorts of things. This traycloth must be something that Grandmama began to work quite late in life, when her eyesight was no longer what it had [...]
21 May 10
Grandmama embroidered this lovely lady on a nightdress case for my mother during the War, when they were evacuated to Westmorland. The colours have faded rather now, but it is still beautiful, and the long and short stitch puts me firmly in my place! The Front of “The Lady in the Garden” The reason it [...]
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Posted in General Embroidery
Tagged Grandmama's Embroidery, Miss Hunter, Royal School of Needlework
Tagged Grandmama's Embroidery, Miss Hunter, Royal School of Needlework
14 May 10
A little while ago, Yvette at White Threads blog interviewed me for her blog. In the interview, we talked about how I started to embroider, and I described – and provided a picture of – a piece that I worked on with Grandmama when I was about eight or nine. I went to visit my [...]
27 Apr 10
The embroidery on the Floral Glove Needlecase is based around the tabbed cuffs of gloves which were often presented as gifts during the Elizabethan era. We’re only doing one side of one cuff, of course, but the additional historical material we get each month, with high-resolution pictures of some of the original gloves which remain [...]
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Posted in Floral Glove Needlecase
Tagged Floral Glove Course, Goldwork, Miss Hunter, online university, Silk thread, Thistle Threads
Tagged Floral Glove Course, Goldwork, Miss Hunter, online university, Silk thread, Thistle Threads
19 Mar 10
I’ve finished the silk work on the Needlecase Kit! The new stand has been working well – it is very adjustable, so I can make it suit wherever I am sitting, and the magnifying glass has been very helpful too. The only slight hitch with the magnifier is that stitching away at magnification becomes normal [...]
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 [...]
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