I worked on this very early in my embroidering career. The design comes from a free transfer in one of the Needlewoman Magazines my Grandmama gave me (September 1934, since you asked!), and I worked it to go with the curtains in my bedroom which were a wonderful Regency strip in red and gold. It’s [...]
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29 Jul 11
26 Apr 11
Here is the second installment of close-ups of the Flowered Blouse embroidery. I’ve noticed in picking out the Needlewoman magazine that the transfers came in that the colours I have used bear absolutely no resemblance to those suggested. For instance, flower 6, here on the left, is named as “Lobelia”, and a quick search suggests [...]
19 Apr 11
You may recall, not so long ago, a post that I wrote about a blouse embroidered some years ago, during a particularly impoverished period in my life. Here are the promised close-ups of the floral motifs. Or at least some of them. When the connection started slowing when I put all ten in one post [...]
15 Apr 11
As Spring shows her head after the chill of Winter, I am beginning to fish out clothes other than bulky winter woollies. This is a simple polyester blouse I embroidered some years ago when I had time, an itch to embroider, but absolutely no money to buy fabric. I used a Free Transfer from The [...]
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Posted in General Embroidery
Tagged experiments, Needlewoman Magazine, Silk thread, transfers
Tagged experiments, Needlewoman Magazine, Silk thread, transfers
19 Nov 10
I’ve finished the candlestick bookmark. I worked the stitches on the candle vertically, and the stitches on the drips of wax diagonally, to try to create a slightly different effect. The light reflecting off the different angled stitches creates almost different colours, and certainly different shades. The dense weave of the grosgrain ribbon has made [...]
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Tagged General Embroidery, Needlewoman Magazine, Silk thread
Tagged General Embroidery, Needlewoman Magazine, Silk thread
26 Oct 10
It’s important to stitch representational pieces in the right order to make sure that they “work” visually as representations of something real. Here I have numbered each of the elements from this point forward. The candle stub itself is the first, followed by the candlestick body, then the rim, then the wax dripping down the [...]
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Tagged General Embroidery, Needlewoman Magazine, Silk thread
Tagged General Embroidery, Needlewoman Magazine, Silk thread
19 Oct 10
This design came from one of those Needlewoman Magazines. It was inside the back page with the competition results, as a sort of bonus. The most difficult thing about it was finding the fabric – navy grosgrain ribbon, four inches wide. I recall that I bought the last length in the shop, which was enough [...]
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Tagged General Embroidery, Needlewoman Magazine, Silk thread
Tagged General Embroidery, Needlewoman Magazine, Silk thread
1 Oct 10
Like so many of us, I have probably several shelves’ worth of books about embroidery scattered around the house. Some of them never make it back to the shelves because they are always beside me as I work (Barbara Snook’s “Embroidery Stitches” and Yvette Stanton’s “The Right Handed Embroiderer’s Companion“), some of them are put [...]
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Tagged General Embroidery, Needlewoman Magazine, online university
Tagged General Embroidery, Needlewoman Magazine, online university
16 Mar 10
As far as I recall, I spent one month each on the first two panels, and then two months on the third, and three months on the final panel. I only embroidered in the evenings when I got back from work, probably not more than a couple of hours each night. The closely packed fly [...]
9 Mar 10
There was so much going on that I consciously reused yarns, colours or stitches across the four panels in order to maintain some semblance of order. In fact as I moved on to each panel I would lay the completed ones side by side on the living room floor and scramble around putting piles of [...]
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