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Competition! My first!
In the post http://elmsleyrose.blogspot.com/2011/10/projects.html I said that I felt that after a long period of lesser health, I felt it was a better idea to re-start practical embroidery with an easy...
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Competition Winner!
Thankyou for all of the entries. I have a lovely name now – “A Thistled Heart”, suggested by Lia de Thronegge. I have a bit of a thing about Thistles (as well as roses) – I collect images of them as...
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Extracting A Pattern from the Extant Embroidery Image Part I
Background Ages ago, I saw an entry on the Historic English Embroidery blog by Helen Cowan. http://historyofembroidery.blogspot.com.au/ The blog is unfortunately now defunct, but fun to have a look at...
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Progress…..
This is where I’m up to on The Heart of The Thistle …. The centre, done in tent stitch, and two of the side thistle leaves. These are all the colours in the palette…the remainder will ‘pull’ the...
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The Thistle gets the Trellis Stitch Treatment
The information record for the 1661 sampler by Elizabeth Short that my Heart of the Thistle project is based upon states : “The embroidery is worked with silk, linen and metal thread in back, cross,...
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