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One Step On - Exhibition
I did not intend to take a summer break from blogging it just happened. I was away in Canada for 3 weeks in June and then a few days away in the middle of July at Embroiderers’ Guild Summer School...
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Where would we be without……..?
A sewing machine, an overlocker and an embellisher. As most of you will have experienced difficulty getting out to do some Christmas shopping you often have to resort to other tactics. This year I...
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New Blog
I have just started a blog for the group of textile artists that I work with - One Step On. We already have web site but thought it might a nice idea to have a blog as well. Do please take a look and...
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I am in the process of adding the profiles of the members of One Step On and images of their work. There is a tab at the top of the blog which lists the members and down the right hand side there is a...
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More American Smocking Samples
Here are a couple more samples of Amercian Smocking. We we introduced to these by Monica at our last meeting on One Step On.The blue one is silk dupion with gold spots done in the lattice pattern. The...
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Work in Progress
I think I lost my mojo for most of January but now that the days are lengthening I think it is returning. Well I hope it is!These are pieces for a panel that I am creating for our Group Exhibition, One...
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'Crazy for Colour'
I have just been on a superb course at Alston Hall, called 'Crazy for Colour'. The tutor was Ruth Issett. Those of you who have her books will know how colourful her work is. It is a privilege to be...
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August Exhibitions
Two exhibitions during August for you to visit if you are in the Lytham St Annes Area.The first one is Blackpool Art Society at the Gallery at Booths Supermarket. Members of Blackpool Branch of the...
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Rossendale Exhibition
Since the beginning of the year I have been a member of a second Textile Art group, Preston Threads.Recently the group had an exhibition at Rossendale Museum. As I had not been a member at the start of...
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Aintree 2011
I know that I haven’t posted for quite a long time, mainly because of RSI in my wrist and elbow – brought on by working long and hard on creating this years Embroiderers’ Guild North West Regional...
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Latest Collection of Brooches
I have just put 6 of my machine embroidered brooches in the current exhibition at Booths Gallery in Lytham St Annes. As of yesterday I heard that I had sold 5 of them. That made me look at my current...
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Current Brooch Collection
My attempt to create a page for brooches instead of them all being in a post had failed miserably. So until I can sort that out they will have to appear here in a post! Latest collection - August 2011...
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NW Region Embroiderers’ Guild Summer School
This year at our summer school at Alston Hall I did the Francis Pickering course on making books. I used Tiffany Glass as my source of inspiration. I started the book on the course but have only just...
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Open Day
If you are not going to the Knit & Stitch Show at Harrogate tomorrow (Saturday 26th November) you might like to take a visit to Cedar Farm, if you are in the vicinity. One Step On are having an...
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From Design to Stitch
The 2 ‘linked days’ course that I taught recently at Alston Hall went down very well. I had planned for everyone to spend a short amount of time in the grounds with their digital cameras but the...
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The Icing on the Cake
On Saturday, at Blackpool Branch of the Embroiderers’ Guild we had Maggie Grey as our guest speaker. (Do take a look at Maggie’s blog)What an absolute delight. Her talk was really interesting,...
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Preston Threads–Aintree 26th-28th 2012
ICHF Creative Stitches & HobbycraftsWe have been at Aintree Racecourse today putting up our exhibition ‘Coloured Threads’.The show starts tomorrow (Thursday) and runs until Saturday. I will be...
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Preston Threads at EventCity
Preston Threads are exhibiting their work on colour from September 13th - 15th at Event City.Linda Bellingham is said to be opening the event. (See poster below for more details).I will be stewarding...
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Preston Threads Exhibiting at the NEC
We are exhibiting again, this time at the NEC from March 21st – 24th, in the Fashion, Embroidery and Stitch Show. Our work this time was developed from observing and recording something of...
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Exhibition - North Pier Theatre - North Pier - Blackpool
I don't know where time seems to have gone since I last posted. So much for telling myself that I was going to make a concerted effort to work on my blog and keep it up to date.For the whole of May we...
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Our Joint Exhibition ‘More Tea Vicar’!
The exhibition is up and going very well on the North Pier, Blackpool. The visitor numbers are good and we are receiving lots of very nice comments about our work and a number of people have shown an...
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Inspiring Talk
Last night was our our first branch meeting after the summer break at Blackpool Embroiderers’ Guild.We had possibly the best speaker we have ever had. Lizzie Wall. Lizzie brought some beautiful pieces...
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Inspired by Lace
Today I went with 2 friends to visit the ‘Inspired’ exhibition at Gawthorpe Hall in Padiham, Lancashire. I have a piece in the exhibition but I was really keen to see all the other exhibits. They were...
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Machine Embroidered Brooch–Workshop
Last Wednesday I taught a workshop at Alston Hall on my machine embroidered brooches. I have taught the workshop to several local groups of the Embroiderers’ Guild but this is the first time I have...
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