Reading your profile and having the opportunity to view your photos has been an honor. What profound respect I have for your history in this field.  I am smitten by the beauty and execution of each piece of work.  I wish I would have had the opportunity for apprenticeship in this fascinating field.  Each day I come on this site I learn more about the woman and man that brought keep this art form growing and share its history.  Just wanted to thank you for the experience of enjoying yours.  Bernadette

Your work is beautiful.  You are very talented.  The insects are wonderful.

Hello Lynette, I love your William Morris embroidery. I am a devotee of his, and have collected fabrics to make a needle turned applique quilt with a design from his works. Not sure when I will start. Need to live till I am 200 to finish all the projects that I would like to do. Cheers, Claire

Lynette, as coisas já se acalmaram por ai? Como está você e família? Desejando que todos estejam bem, abraços, Algecira

Exactamundo. That'll be a difference between us. I like the muted Elizabethan colours, and learning which colours were used for which flowers.

The sort of Elizabethan/Stumpwork designs that a designer like JMD Designs (Janet Davies) - they are totally not up my alley. Just too bright, and the motifs aren't packed together intensely enough.

I've got a little bit of a wiki showing different embroidery designs and styles used for various flowers at http://genvieve.pbworks.com/w/page/9773652/Embroidery. It's still got loads to be added in.

All images are used with permission/copyright free so feel free to use :-)

Oh, I'd *die* without the Net. To think - only 13 years ago (when I first got sick) it didn't exist! (Not in the way it does today)

I'm sorry to hear about your heart. That's scary. You kinda need one of those. I'm restricted in a lot of what I do too, because I'm at risk of tachycardia/artyhmia. (sp).

Like having to sit down in the bathtup to wash my hair - standing up + hot water + arms raised in the air is just asking for trouble!

Elisabethan and Stumpwork is your Forte, and you've held those positions? May I suck your brains? *giggle*

Thankyou :-) I'm housebound by a neurological illness (13 years now) and Historical Embroidery, with it's practical and intellectual components, keeps me from going nutters! *grin*

Jane Nichols may have suggested pink for a cornflower, but my 'mentor' Eowyn (a Laurel in the SCA) is quite firm that that is incorrect. She's writing a book "A Field Guide to Embroidered Elizabethan Flowers", so she knows her stuff.

She wrote a couple of paragraphs about cornflowers being blue and posted them on her LJ as an example of what was going into the book, but I think I'll get in trouble if I pass it onto you. She's very sensitive to that sort of thing and no way do I want to upset her!

But you don't have to be historically accurate if you don't want to, of course. :-)