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
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
28 Sep 10
This design is from a transfer I picked up in a hurry a few years ago so as to have something to stitch while on holiday. It went swimmingly for a while and then ran into a brick wall and I have only just finished it. The threads are wool and cotton, with a little [...]
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Posted in General Embroidery
Tagged General Embroidery, ornamental stitches, stitches, transfers
Tagged General Embroidery, ornamental stitches, stitches, transfers
14 Sep 10
The Lady in the Garden, again came from a transfer, and was stitched as a companion to the Peacock, and a homage to Grandmama’s Lady. Unlike Grandmama, I made no effort to provide the lady with lovely graduated ruffles – if I am honest, because I really didn’t think I would finish them if I [...]
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Posted in General Embroidery
Tagged Grandmama's Embroidery, Silk thread, stitches, transfers
Tagged Grandmama's Embroidery, Silk thread, stitches, transfers
27 Aug 10
I’ve only recently begun to design my embroideries entirely for myself. To begin with I took painted canvases or transfers and worked them using a variety of stitches and thread combinations, depending on what I had to hand and what aspect of embroidery was catching my attention at the time. I was attracted by this [...]
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 [...]
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