I thought I would share an embroidery which got me into embroidery in 1989. My grandmother taught me to crochet when I was little, unfortunately I was only 9 when we lost her but the love of creative crafts had been planted. Nor much embroidery was done but I did start making my own clothes whilst as school and carried on making them for myself then my 2 daughters as they came on the scene until they got to the age when they were embarrassed about wearing what Mum had made. I continued to sew for myself and also made for a small clientele until I found the machine was causing me problems, spondiliitis in the neck which the hospital said was caused from too much machining. That is when the knitting needles came out. Then I came across an old piece of linen in a shop with a picture on it which I purchased then put away for a few years in a drawer. In 1989 I decided I would try and stitch it so went along to a class every week and the teacher would help pick the threads and told me what stitches to do, I thoroughly enjoyed this project and even now when I look at the picture I feel pleased with myself, the one part I would redo is the grave stones, they stick out like a sore thumb to me ,never mind . After completing this project I started on a piece of hardanger (my grandmother`s mother was Norwegian) and from there my teacher suggested I take the city and guilds course which I started in 1992.
This taught me so many techniques, a lot I would never use again but on the whole enjoyed the course and completed part 1 in 2 years, 3 years away then a glutton for punishment I went back and took another 2 years to do part 2. Sorry I have rambled on rather a lot, will now share the photos of the embroidered piece that got me started and my first hardanger piece.
sorry about the reflection caused by the glass.
Now a photo of the latest half metre lengths I have bought to add to the stash, what a shock when I counted them today I have 153 half metre pieces, time I got something worthwhile made with them!
these are a bit different, camper vans, owls and tiny russian dolls.
