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An Old Bookmark
Bookmark from The Needlewoman This design came from one of those Needlewoman Magazines. It was inside the back page with the competition results, as a sort of bonus. The most difficult thing about it...
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Stitching order for the Old Bookmark
Bookmark Stitching Order It’s important to stitch representational pieces in the right order to make sure that they “work” visually as representations of something real. Here I have numbered each of...
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Candlestick Bookmark Finished
Finished Candlestick Bookmark I’ve finished the candlestick bookmark. I worked the stitches on the candle vertically, and the stitches on the drips of wax diagonally, to try to create a slightly...
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A flowered blouse
Blouse embroidered with flower sprigs As Spring shows her head after the chill of Winter, I am beginning to fish out clothes other than bulky winter woollies. This is a simple polyester blouse I...
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Close-ups on the Flowered Blouse – Part One
Flower 1 - Close up You may recall, not so long ago, a post that I wrote about a blouse embroidered some years ago, during a particularly impoverished period in my life. Here are the promised close-ups...
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Close Ups on the Flowered Blouse – Part Two
Flower 6 - Close Up Here is the second installment of close-ups of the Flowered Blouse embroidery. I’ve noticed in picking out the Needlewoman magazine that the transfers came in that the colours I...
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Another early piece
Table Runner from The Needlewoman Magazine I worked on this very early in my embroidering career. The design comes from a free transfer in one of the Needlewoman Magazines my Grandmama gave me...
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Holiday Traycloth – first installment
I worked this immediately after the First Voluntary Project, and my goodness, is there a difference between the two! I think I must have talked with Grandmama and looked at some of her embroidery, and...
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Holiday Traycloth – second installment
Making Tea Now this is very “Swallows and Amazons“, isn’t it! There’s a woven spiders web wheel for the top of the picnic basket, the little girl’s red hair is worked in coral stitch and her older...
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Kai Lung of the Golden Hours
Kai Lung This wonderfully contorted Imperial Dragon was another Needlewoman Magazine design (March 1934), and he got his name from the Golden Hours of Kai Lung, by Ernest Bramah, which I was reading...
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A Delight from the Past
Applique Tablecloth This is one of the most cheerful and striking tablecloths I have ever seen. It belongs to my cousin, who found it in an antiques centre, and brought it home to cherish. It is crisp,...
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