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You’ve been Framed! A personal guide to hoops and frames.
When I’m asked what hoop to use I find it hard not to give a simple answer! The fact is there is no one hoop or frame that is correct. I tend to use different ones for different projects, based not only on their technique but function. Put in simple terms, hoops and frames serve […]
Reasons why you should take up Embroidery in 2018 (QVC Style!)
I have a dark secret …..I LOVE watching QVC Shopping Channel! Now don’t get me wrong, I’m no shopaholic but as a bit of a retail nerd (as well as an embroidery one) I find it not only strangely calming in the background (It’s Nina Leonard fashion on at the mo!), but I have unwittingly […]
Tuedsay Tidy : Elizabethan Pattern from a 1938 Needlecraft magazine
This week I have been having a scout through some of my old Needlecraft magazines and think I have several years worth of patterns to share with you! I think one of the most striking things I notice is how ageless so many of the designs are! This one comes from January 1938 and is […]
End of an era for needlework shops?…..
I was wandering through some of my magazines ready to write Tuesdays Blog post and I found this picture for which I couldn’t help feeling a twinge of sadness at it’s account of the thriving needlework shops of the past. I have to confess the night before I had watched about the closure of […]
Free Convolvulus PDF Instructions
I was looking through some pictures of my old shop whilst editing the web site and came across this lovely picture of the Pearsell’s silk I used to stock. Sadly although the name still exists, the silk doesn’t but this picture brought to mind a couple of projects I embroidered with them. One of them […]
Monday Musings……..Memories in Stitches
When my dear Grannie died my mother asked me if there was something I wanted that belonged to her. I had two simple requests. One was her much worn hooped hearings containing several hoops of differing interchangeable colours. The other were the two rather tatty patchwork bedspreads which adorned the beds my sister and […]
Monday Musings…….Colours of the countryside
I think there are probably very few artists or writers who are not inspired by their surroundings be it urban or rural. I live in a town centre and am constantly fascinated by the patterns of Victorian tiles in the shop doorways or old walls left standing in front of new buildings as the final […]