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Cake decorating Crochet Cross Stitch Embroidery General Knitting Throwback Thursday12 January 201710 June 2017

Throwback Thursday

My mum was the first person who got me interested in needlecraft. During my childhood, she knitted 80’s-jumpers for herself, and outfits for my dolls. She embroidered a number of tablecloths with cross stitch designs, and stitched a lovely blackwork picture based on a design by M.C. Escher. She also sewed me a number of…

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Cake decorating Throwback Thursday27 September 201210 June 2017

Squires Kitchen Foundation Course – Sugar flowers

For the past two days I have taken the sugar flowers foundation course at Squires Kitchen in Franham during which we have made a life size rose and blossoms. On the first morning we started by making two rose buds, one of which we will be expanding to the large rose. Making the petals was difficult…

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Really enjoying knitting this pattern for Farmhouse Dishtowels by @purlsoho. It is a very easy, fun and beautiful project that I can easily knit on the go or in front of the telly.
Already the final day of my Japanese Embroidery class at the 2022 @ega_usa seminar. The days have flown by. It has been so worthwhile learning my first steps in this technique from such a skilled teacher. I have still got to do a lot for this project but I had to watch out today what I worked on since I had to take it off the frame (which I don’t like doing) as otherwise it won’t fit in my suitcase. I fixed the stitches the traditional way with wheat-starch and dried it before rolling it up.
Day 3 of my Japanese Embroidery Class at the 2022 @ega_usa National Seminar. Again we learned so many different techniques today. I am really enjoying it, but sometimes it is difficult to remember every detail. Been taking a lot of notes so I can finish it at home. Tomorrow is already the last class…it has flown by. I have enclosed a close up photo as because of the silk it just looks different from every angle. #japaneseembroidery
Day 2 of my Japanese Embroidery class at the @ega_usa National Seminar in New York. We had a lot of instruction and demonstrations today so not much actual stitching on my piece. I did do the veins on the leaves I had completed (I partially restitched the green one as I wasn’t happy with it) and made a start on the flowers, which use padden L/S stitch which gives a lovely effect. Japanese L/S is also not random which makes it a bit easier for me to do than regular L/S. #eganationalseminar2022
First day of my Japanese Embroidery Class at the 2022 @ega_usa seminar in New York. I had a really fun day learning about the design, framing up a Japanese Frame and stitching my first leaves. In one way it is good taking photo’s of your progress but it also shows where I have gone wrong and all I can think about now is fixing it, so that will be my first job for tomorrow! Now it is off to the ‘first-timers’-event followed by the opening banquet. #egaseminar2022 (📷 @sewbyhandmtl)
Today I explored Brooklyn and of course I couldn’t miss out on a visit to @brooklyngeneralstore as it has been recommended to me so many times.
Working on the patterns for the spines and front cover today. I decided to go for a computer font which resembles the different fonts used on the actual Observer’s books rather than try make up the words I need from letters on different books and trying to get the spacing and sizing right.
Productive day today: made the inserts for the drawers to slide into, added the back cover over the tan-coloured book, and made a new piece for the front which I think is so much better as it reduces the number of edges showing.
All five books are stitched together, so I had the opportunity to measure for the inserts which will hold the drawers. I had envisaged three drawers, but once I had measured them I discovered they would have ended up very shallow so I went for two instead.

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