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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Website Wednesdays!…Introducing ‘Jessica’
After trying to keep Blogs in the past, lack of time to do all the usual promoting and sharing rendered my attempts rather lame. I always knew that the only way I would really enjoy keeping one was with my own web site. Nearly 6 years after starting Maggie Gee Needlework my experience selling […]