Hi Tina. Check out the "Books and Magazines" group in Stitchin Fingers. You may find some recommended books/magazines there. In addition, if you are interested in a particular type of embroidery, check out the groups to see if there is an interest...
The Lakeshore Creative Stitchery Guild will be holding its 38th Annual Exhibition of Needlework on Saturday, September 19 from 10:00 to 17:00 and Sunday, September 20 from 13:00 to 16:00. The show will be held at Stewart Hall Cultural Centre, 176 ...
Hi Lisa. I was told by my teacher that the silk bought from the Japanese Embroidery Center (JEC) is specially tightly woven to be able to stand up to embroidery. The pieces with a lot of goldwork in the design are even heavier to tolerate the weig...
Hi everyone. I hope you are all getting ready for your class at Hawkwood College. I remember how excited I was to be going to Atlanta for that class. So, I am sure you are all feeling the same. Before I went to my phase X class, I checked my suppl...
Hi Nancy, thank for the tip about these angles. Some of my stitching colleagues use them and find them very useful, but I just can't seem to get on with them. The angles worked ok in the end so all is not lost.
We are really weaving a web across the world! Erma is also friend of another canadian lady, Jeanine, who lives near Vancouver. I met Jeanine several years ago on the newsgroup rec.craft.textiles.needlework and I met her in person two years ago in Italy, at the Internationa Forum of Lace and Embroidery. She will be again here in two weeks, and I'm eager to meet her again :-)
About Japanese embroidery: I know there's a teacher in Lion - France, but it is too far for me... I can't leave the kids for many days, so it is not an option for me, at least for more several years. But I'm patient ;-)
Ciao, Stefania
Nancy, thank you for your visit and your kind words.
Your camellias are wonderful... I drool over japanese embroidery, but there are no teachers near where I live... I have a book about the basic technique, and perhaps I will give it a try, one day or another... (I'll have to find where to buy the silk online, before!)
I have two friends in Montreal, Erma and Fiore, who will come in Italy for an embroidery course, on next June. If I remember correctly, they should teach. I know that Montreal is not a little town, but maybe you know them... it would be funny :-)
Ciao, Stefania
Hi Nancy,
Thanks for your comment and all the great info. Where abouts in
Canada are you? My son is a missionary currently living in Hochelaga West. He is Mormon and is on a mission for his church. I hear it's beautiful there. It's not so pretty here in Las Vegas, though I keep trying with my gardening and embroidery. If nothing else I can try and pretty up my little corner of the world! Meg :-)
Your embroidery experiences sound similar to mine and I daren't count my UFO's! Happy stitching! When you have time it would be nice to see more pictures.