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Robin Hood as featured in Australian Inspirations magazine
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Home Sweet HomeEmbroidered for the Embroiderers Guild exhibitions at The Knitting and Stitching shows in 2019 |
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Timmy WillieTaken from the Beatrix Potter figurine. Timmy Willie features in the Tale of Jonny Town- Mouse. Timmy is hungry and goes into the vegetable patch and eats to many peas, so climbs into a pea pod and goes to sleep.
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Mushrooms & BlackberriesThe blackberry stem and the three mushrooms are all made separately then sewn in position over the ivy and cow parsley surface embroidered background
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Peter RabbitI have a life long love of all Beatrix Potters characters, especially Peter Rabbit. I was given a peter rabbit cuddly toy by my Great Aunty Bertha when I was 2 1/2 , I still have him, he is looking very dishevelled now, but he is 70 years old but still very much loved.
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The RobinWe have three robins in our garden that demand, during the winter months, breakfast of cheese, dried mealworms and suet nibbles. One sits on a cable that runs from Mick’s workshop to the greenhouse. A few years ago I took several photographs of the robin and thought it would be a wonderful stumpwork to make, but have the robin sitting on a branch instead of the cable.........that went into the ‘to do’ file. At the end of 2016 Trish Burr wrote an article for the Australian embroidery magazine “Inspirations” called Winters Song and featured the most beautiful Robin. A few years ago I had had a class with Trish on needle painting, so cheekily wrote to Trish and asked if I could use her Robin pattern for a stumpwork idea, Trish very generously said I could. I wanted to make the robin stand off the background, giving him a natural look, so made a free standing branch for him to sit on, the branch is held in place by two tiny stitches, the ivy sprig, which is also free standing, also has just a couple of tiny stitches holding it in place. |
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Mouse & Blackberries
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Amazon AdventureThis is my Amazon Adventure depicting rainforest plants and animal life from the jungle. To see close up pictures Click Here |
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3D Walled GardenThe 3D walled garden is an interpretation of Owens Davis's 'Knot Garden' To see more details of this box and close up pictures Click Here |
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ExtravaganzaIn the summer of 2010, my two teaching friends, Pat Trott and Hazel Everett and I were asked to take a three-way summer school at Knuston Hall, in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. Pat is a surface embroidery expert and Hazel is a gold-work expert. The students were given patterns for the flowers which they could work in either of the three mediums or a combination of all three. |
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Acorn branchThe inspiration for the branch was made in the autumn of 2011 when the oak trees were turning their lovely shades of gold and orange. The acorns are made by wrapping thread round a purpose made resin bead. The cup is formed by detached buttonhole stitch over padding. The needlelace leaves were worked in white silk then painted. |
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Bunch BerriesThis embroidery was made for the Embroiderers’ Guild South East Region exhibition at Hall Place in the summer of 2010. My friend in America had sent me a picture of the Bunch Berries and as the theme of the exhibition was ‘Around the World’ it fitted nicely. I cut out the shape of the leaves and placed them onto the background, after painting the shapes they were embroidered with split back stitch. The free standing embroidered flowers and berries made of needlelace round a bead make the free standing elements. |
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Elizabethan SamplerThe swirling shape and motifs used is a typical Elizabethan design. |
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Fairy on a BranchThe fairy, branch and a couple of the acorns were made onto the background fabric. A separate branch of painted needlelace leaves and a wrapped resin bead for the free standing acorn were made and attached |
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Fairy on a MushroomThis embroidery was made for our Figures book and is a particular favourite of mine. |
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Jacobean FlowersThis Jacobean inspired embroidery was made for a friend. |
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HedgerowThis was my first venture into ‘layered’ work. Leaves, berries , flowers and insects were all made on the background fabric. I then made another set of leaves, flowers and berries which were attached to a length of wrapped wire. This was then attached in a couple of places to the background, giving a more natural effect of a hedgerow. |
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Mistletoe, Holly and IvyI love 3D work – it is the challenge of making elements of embroidery as neat on the back as the front. I like making a Christmas card from a piece of embroidery, and didn’t know what to do for Christmas 2011, but a walk round my garden soon gave me inspiration. |
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PansyAn Elizabethan inspired piece combining stumpwork and goldwork. |
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Spring SamplerThe inspiration for the embroidery came from the profusion of colour and flower shapes I see in the spring. |
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Summer SamplerThe inspiration for the lace came from memories as a child of fields of daisies and poppies growing in the Sussex countryside and the foxgloves on the high road-side banks of Devon. Iris, pansies, fuchsia’s, sweet peas and roses grow in my garden, including the buttercup (which is the bane of my husbands life!) |