Veronica

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	The photograph left is my latest craze - 'Inchies'. Each square is an inch by an inch - not metric here yet! This piece of work has been made to celebrate the 25 years of North Kent Embroiderers Guild and on every Inchie there is a silver bead.


These are close up photographs of just a few of the Inchies - from left to right the techniques / stitches are - Norwich Stitch, variety of canvas work stitches and eyelet stitch using varigated thread


		Every Christmas our Embroiderers Guild has a competition at our Christmas meeting and last year it was to make a Christmas stocking no larger than 6". Here are my efforts - one I designed myself, but the angel was taken from the Stitch magazine published by the Embroiderers Guild

The Olympic Games will be here before you know it, and quilts4london are asking people make a quilt A3 size so that each competitor can be given one as a memento of the Games. The Women's Institute have taken up the challenge and so I have made one for my Institute - Cobham & Ludddesdowne. It is called 'Handmade with love' - notice the tiny heart in the bottom right hand corner and all the fabrics used have something to do with sewing


The Embroiderers Guild suggested in an issue of the Contact newsletter that members may like to make a postcard and donate to the guild for sale. I have got the bug and here are some of what I have sent them. They are fun to do, don't take a long time and a feeling of satisfaction when finished. I love working in variegated threads and this was one way to use up some of my threads - doing Hardanger, another discipline I love! I am new to this and apparently you need to post them 'naked' so that everyone sees the body and admires it as well as giving lots of joy and pleasure to all those who see them as they make their way to the recipient!


Encrusted Calico Sampler - These are photographs of a project the 97 Group did recently. It is Encrusted Calico and for me, it was an excellent project because I learnt lots of new stitches. People tend to think that members of the Embroiderers Guild know everything about embroidery, and that is not right. In this piece of work, I learnt how to do – Bullion Knots; Woven Wheel; Back Stitch Wheel; Cup Stitch and Woven Picot. Other stitches used were Seeding Stitch; Buttonhole Stitch and French Knots. Various threads used included Silks, Perle and Flower threads. I ‘trapped’ washers, curtain rings and wadding in-between muslin and calico before I began stitching to achieve this effect! It was a really fun way of learning new stitches and achieving a good finished piece of work!



Confusion. This piece of work did NOT begin as it is shown here finished! I was in therapy at the time of working it and I had it all planned out in my head as to what I wanted to do. However, the therapy became difficult and I could not put a needle into the canvas - I was confused, the piece of work was not going as I wanted it to! I decided to call it 'Confusion' and then, with that as the title, I could stitch away to my heart's content using variegated threads, ribbons, beads and whatever I fancied, I was free. Friends that know me look at hti spicture and cannot belive that I did it - it is so unlike anything I have done before. It hangs at an angle as I couldn't decide which way to hang it up!!!

The stole was made for a friend at Rochester Cathedral. He knew what he wanted so designing it was easy.

The 'R' stands for Rochester Diocese, the grapes and bread for Holy Communion, and the sheep because Christ is our shepherd. The design is machine stitched on to the silk with hand embellishments.