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Sandy Vass
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What exquisite work!
wow this looks pretty neat! Can't wait to see it finished!
Hello Sandy, What a magical creations. So very real looking. Love the batik bacground. Lovely. Hugs Judy
Thankyou Maya - it was great fun to stitch. I have added some more bits and pieces since I posted this photo. Sandy
I love him he is beautiful most have taken you hours
Wonderful, looking forward to seeing it grow.
Hi Sandy,
I never have seen like this,It is Mixture of goldwok and sumpwork?
I can not wait the finihedwork.
This is lovely as well.
Beautiful. Is it your own design?
Wow, Sandy. Lovely work. The shading on the leaf is very effective, the shapes of the petals are perfect and the couched circles are very neat. This is going to look amazing.
This is great.
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- What aspect of textiles are you interested in?
- I mostly do goldwork and stumpwork but put my hand to just about any form of embroidery. I must be a bit of a masochist though as I love fine embroidery. I work part time in a quilting and embroidery shop and vowed I would't take up quilting but the inevitable has happened and I have started moving to the "dark side" and have found hand quilting and hand piecing a bit addictive!
- Where did you learn your textle skills?
- I trained as a home economics teacher and back in those days embroidery was a part of the training course. However in the past 8 or so years I moved from the formal education field to work in the embroidery field. The first store I worked in gave me the opportunity to take part in many embroidery classes with some of Australia's well known embroiderer's and I thank them for passing on theitr skills. I am an avid reader and have continued to develop my skills through reading and practice.
- Anything else you want to say to introduce yourself to the group??
- I have designed some of my own goldwork patterns and teach regular classes in Brisbane at the store where I work part time. Some of my patterns can be viewed for sale at the website below.
- Website:
- http://www.tqes.com.au
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Comment Wall (18 comments)
- At 11:14pm on November 16, 2009,
Carol-Anne said…
- Hi Sandy, you have been busy and your work is just lovely. Are they your own designs. I'm very impressed.
- At 7:18pm on November 16, 2009,
SHEILA SANDERSON said…
- Just had a look at your photos....Wow..........
- At 10:49am on June 27, 2009,
Elmsley Rose said… - Maybe it's just having the thread 'hooked in' to cause tension, that neatens it up a bit? (in the case of buttonhole)
- At 2:07pm on June 24, 2009,
Elmsley Rose said…
- I saw this in your comments above "I have started my leaves using the buttonhole method over the wire but will now do the petals in overcast stitch. I will post a picture when I am done showing the comparison. "
Went to the Crab stitch-along, saw how many pages there were, and ran away.
Did you ever post the comparison photos?
:-)
- At 11:09am on April 27, 2009,
Shelley said… - Hi Sandy
Thankyou for your comment. Yes, the birds are great fun to do. They are from a free pattern on Nellie Durand's blog http://nelliedurand.blogspot.com/
Shelley
- At 2:52pm on April 9, 2009,
Vicki Crabb said… - HI Sandy,. Yep, I've started on one of the leaves or I should say that I've had a few starts. The covered wire is a huge improvement over uncovered. I do like the look of the blanket stitch but I realize that it may not appear as "realistic." I'm getting a lot of time to stitch with this broken foot! Hope you have a nice Easter! Vicki
- At 4:12pm on April 2, 2009,
merrilyn said… - how did your workshop go
I also just bought the a-z goldwork book
- At 3:40am on April 1, 2009,
Gill Kriehn said… - Beautiful. I will aspire to this.
Gill Kriehn
- At 1:06am on March 17, 2009,
Grace Lister said… - Yes, Sandy, those Angelina fibres are wonderful. I use them in all sorts of things. If you look at the Waterfall picture in my photostream the pond is made from Angelina and I have also used it for needlecases,bookmarks and Christmas decorations. One amusing occurrence during a workshop I gave was that one of my students is called Angelina and there she was having a lesson on it, Grace
- At 12:02am on March 13, 2009,
Judy Grant said…
- Hello Sandy thanks for your nice comment about my wee beaver stumpwork project. Your beading and stitching is magical. Hugs Judy
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