This evening I am speaking to the relatively newly formed Farnborough Brance of the Embroiderers’ Guild. The subject will be the Embellisher, and there will be a chance for a short ‘tryout’ too. Details of times and venue can be found on their website. The information is a little late in coming, but if you are in the area you might like to attend.
We will also have a few items for sale with us. Hope to see you there.
You may remember seeing this photograph a while ago
It is shown hanging on the line to dry after dyeing and was very quickly sold. This morning I had a lovely email with a link to this blog. It was my lovely friend Pam that bought the skein, and I just love the way she has used it. Pop over and take a look. There is more information about the scarf in her Etsy shop which is also worth a visit. Incidently, part of it is one of the images that I chose for one of the changing images at the top of this blog.
Have you made something using items purchased from me either online, by phone, Etsy or at a show? If you have written about it somewhere why not send me the link – it might end up being featured here too.
I’m continuing to add to my Etsy shop. There will be more later today. Each dyed item is unique – there is only one and I won’t be dyeing another like it. Previously I have added a few repeatable collections, from now on that will cease – everything will be a one off!
It’s only just over a week away – but there is still time for a couple more enrolments on the Busy Bees dyeing course. Based in Newport, S Wales, Busy Bees Patchwork are recovering from a devastating fire in which everything was lost. They are now in the process of preparing to open in new premises, and I’m delighted to be able to support them in this endeavour. I wrote a little bit about the course here, too. For speed contact them by email – details on this page. I’m looking forward to catching up with everyone down there – and to hearing news of the re-opening. As usual we will have a few bits and pieces with us – some of our machine threads, the chiffon scarves and, of course, some of our hand dyed items.
Following a conversation earlier today I realised that maybe some of you don’t know that I have a few views on the Embellishers currently available here.
These are a couple of things on which I’m currently working – the embellisher was in use and also the sewing machine.
These both include our hand-dyed Vegetarian Silk, and one is further embellised with our scrim. Both are machine stitched using Madeira Polyneon Astro threads.
I used the Janome FM725 to create the areas of texture
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