When I did my first day-class at the Royal School of Needlework last year I spotted the cute little purple thread catchers with the RSN logo on sitting on the poles of the trestles in the certificate & diploma classroom. At the time I thought it was a shame that they didn’t sell those in…
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For the certificate and diploma courses at the Royal School of Needlework, you are required to use a slate frame. The easiest way to embroider using a slate frame is to rest it on a pair of trestles. It was the first time I actually worked like that having previously only used seat frames or…
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What a week I have had! Five full days at the Royal School of Needlework, which were the first five days of my first certificate course module: Jacobean Crewelwork. Even though I had been to the RSN before I did feel quite nervous and lost on my first day but during the next few days…
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Today I have visited the Knitting & Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace. I really like this show at it has a great mix of all types of yarn, thread and fabric crafts and it has a good mix of small businesses/individual designers and bigger companies. I have been for these past two years but unlike previous…
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Crafting is a lot of fun, at least in my opinion. It is even more enjoyable if you can share your crafting with someone else or even craft together. This way you become part of a crafting community or part of what Vickie Howell calls The Hive. For those of you who do not know…
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In previous posts, you will have seen that I like using a Pako Floss Organiser to keep my threads organised when working on a particular project. I really like using this organiser but the only problem is that you always need to wrap it in something or put it in a little bag to ensure…
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I started stitching Trish Burr’s ‘For the Love of Wrens’ design nearly two weeks ago and so far I have stitched the branch, the tails and the eyes and I can truly say it is the most challenging kit I have stitched so far. As I mentioned in my post about starting this kit, I…
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It is only two more months until I start the Royal School of Needlework Certificate in Technical Hand Embroidery (RSN Certificate in short). As I want to be well prepared I have been getting some inspiration by looking at crewelwork designs in books and online. I have also made a slate frame bag as you…
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Feeling rather brave but a bit mad at the same time having picked my next project. Since I have no WIPs lying around I could pick any of the kits in my stash. I am going to attempt a Trish Burr miniature needle painting design! I picked up this kit at Create in Stitch when…
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Those of you have been following my blog will have seen updates about my cross stitch miniature church which has been a WIP for almost a year. Not because it has taken me that long to stitch but because it kept being overtaken by other projects. Today, however, I finished it, which means I don’t…
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