Hallo to my darling embroidery students. I know that we have all been very busy, and I am still waiting for some of you to get your photos into me. Holly is the only one who got her piece int...
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From the beautiful 'Geranium' pink to this week's thread colour, 'Parma Violet'. A colour with a long history with a flower back to the 1500's, and an association with one of the most power...
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Several years ago a friend gave me this chocolate box, Griffen's Arabian Assorted Chocolates. I wonder what flavour the chocolates were, turkish delight maybe. Inside the box was thi...
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My husband's jeans had a hole that was growing and growing like a cancer in my soul. It was getting a wee bit ruuuuude and the jeans were about to be thrown out. The problem was they wer...
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Hallo my darlings, especially my embroidery loving darlings, who have been busy working away on their projects. Look at what this darling has done! I am so proud of her, and I can't wait...
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The colour of thread that jumped out of the box and said, "pick me, pick me", this week was this luscious pink. Never a favourite colour, I find myself warming to pink and some some of its brig...
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This is my sampler showing all that I expect for this first project, 3-5 outline stitches. So don't get put off by thinking your first attempt has to be too fancy, as you can see mine is n...
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Hallo my embroidery loving darlings, I thought I would show you some of my latest finds on Trade Me. Of course they are all embroidery pieces, which seems to have taken over my creative life ...
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I thought I would make a list of all the projects that I want to complete, so that I could prioritise which ones were the most important to commit my time to. Also I thought it would be helpful...
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This week my precious darlings the colour I have chosen from my box of threads, is Light Kingfisher blue. What a wonderful colour, exotic and iridescent. This colour would need a vibrant dr...
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Remember The Little Girl's Sewing Book, (I discovered it was printed in 1915). It was this little book that inspired me to start my embroidery classes. Today I would like to share with y...
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I have been working away on the embroidery of the coat, sitting by the fire in my lounge, cold and wintry outside with the rain falling. This has been a healing time for me, and often I ha...
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Last weekend I was asked if I could come to a birthday party and teach the guests some embroidery, so that they would all go home with something they had made. Kind of the Birthday Embroid...
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Hallo my button loving darlings, today I would like to share with you a little of the story of fabric covered buttons. The Collector's Encyclopaedia of Buttons by Sally Luscomb, defines fabri...
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This week's thread colour is Orange Lily. There were a few contestants for this colour Courtesy Tauranga Historical Society This pant suit from 1956, which was one of the free patter...
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Well my precious creative darlings I have good news for those of you who have chosen to undertake the embroidery classes, a little pack of goodies is on the way. Now it's up to you, if you appl...
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These lace bobbins have been passed down in our family for generations and they inspired me to find out a little more about who it was in our family who used them and what type of lace they ma...
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One of the wonderful things about working with heritage collections is that the word gets out that you love anything to do with heritage textiles. Because of this I am sometimes offered tr...
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There are a number of boxes in the Brain Watkins House holding textile related items, the Cadbury Box with its hundreds of buttons that we have had a quick look at already, mahogany boxes, (...
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Dorset buttons are thread buttons made from the middle of the 1700's (some sources say earlier) to the middle of the 1800's. It is believed that Abraham Case of Dorsetshire, England, with...
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Hallo my poodle-lishious darlings. I was sewing up the collar, and had finished putting in the buckle. As I was working on it, I was thinking the buckle was a lighter weight than I ha...
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Finished the first attempt at a bead work project, I know its a bit wonky. I must say it was a joy to do though, very meditational, and I am keen to learn more and follow on with another pr...
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A friend lent me this little book, The Little Girls Sewing Book, and although it does not have a publication date in it, the graphics and style suggest it is from the turn of the century. When ...
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Today I am working on the 1919 Butterick coat, yes I know this is such an old story we want something new. It is a little frustrating as the embroidery is taking so long, and so it is diffi...
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This is a family photograph of my Great Grandmother, May McCutcheon, with a group of seven girls holding bamboo and paper fans. Isn't it the most wonderful image? Written on the backing b...
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