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Hello everyone This week I have been busy as a bee clearing shipments, packing products and re-stocking the ETSY SHOP South Africans will find all the South African Rand prices listed at the top of each product - so when placing an order if you could email me with a list of the products you… Continue reading New Fabric In Stock

Hello Everyone how is your week going - I really dont know where the time goes to when you are having fun (stitching that is)! This week we are going to have a chat to Margaret Vant Erve of Canada.  Margaret is an artist who uses a variety of textiles and paints to create the… Continue reading Lovely Landscapes

Hello Everyone This week I will be completing the series of articles on How To Design An Embroidery Project with Stage 6 From stitch to print. As you know when I stitch the step by step directions I literally mean STEP BY STEP as I have to climb the steps to my office to scan… Continue reading From Stitch to Print Stage 6

Hello Everyone I have some good news to share on this lovely Monday morning!  Etsy has now integrated an INSTANT DIGITAL DOWNLOAD system - which means as soon as your payment is processed the project pattern is available for download, no more waiting for me to send it by email, or for the post.  … Continue reading Instant Digital Downloads

Happy Mothers day to all you gorgeous Mums for Sunday.  I hope your family spoil you rotten and that you at least get breakfast in bed or a day off for stitching! We have a wonderful Framing store in Somerset West where I live and I take all my stitched pieces there to be framed… Continue reading Happy Mothers Day

Hello everyone Well the week has escaped me again and have not had the time to post on Stage 5 of our Designing An Embroidery Project - so alas it will have to wait till next week.  In the meantime I would like your feedback on fabric.  You can read past articles on fabric here:… Continue reading Fabric

  Hello everyone Today I am continuing with our article on STAGE 4 & 5  of  How to Design An Embroidery Project – Stitching The Design & instructions. This is the part I like best – I have my outline traced onto a piece of fabric, it is mounted into a hoop and I have… Continue reading Stage 4&5 Stitching The Design

Hello everyone I cant believe the end of this week is here - I will post on stage 4 of designing a project next week! I wonder if my readers from USA can help?  My daughter Tess is going over to Maine to work on a summer camp as a counsellor in May and then… Continue reading Calling USA

Hello EveryoneThis week I am going to continue with Stage 3 of our article Designing An Embroidery Project - CHOOSING COLOURS & PREPARATION.In stage 2 we discussed the design outline and tracing it onto your fabric – the next stage is to choose the thread colours.  This is one of the parts I love!  I… Continue reading Choosing Colours