Etsy shop

If you have ever wondered about the description on Etsy of what The Glass Pingle shop actually looks like ...here it is!

Studio

'Thankyou' to everyone who came , it was a lovely weekend !
Now for the Knit and Stitch Show........

Open Studios 2013

I will be taking part in the Herts. Open Studios on September 7th-8th along with several other artists from the studios here.
Our studios are in the grounds of a large mid-Victorian house together with a 14th C. tithe barn , Victorian shop arcade and large wooded garden.We will all be selling work and you can get to meet my furry assistant...what more could you want ? ! See the link in the side bar for all the visitor info.

http://www.ruthparker.co.uk/

http://www.mollyhagan.co.uk/

http://www.lisafreeman.co.uk/

http://iconin.blogspot.co.uk/



p.s. there's this too........Pathe film of the Abbey Art Centre

Pingle rings

As one who likes to embroider on the go....in the garden ,on the train, in the car..... I have needed somewhere safe for my needles ! I usually end up wearing them and then forgetting so when I was making some of my pin cushion buttons recently I wondered if  rings would work and they do ! I was given a lovely little stash of old Liberty print remnants so here they are ! On etsy packaged in their own little domes..£10

and here are the buttons. These will be at the Knit and Stitch show in October.

p.s. if any of you want to see a spectacular stumpwork casket pop along to The Queens Gallery to see this

..so many leaves !! It doesn't get out very often and has to be seen to be believed. There are also some beautiful tudor jackets in the show , french knot heaven.

Anenomes

..some brooches being made. This set are inspired by the middles of anenomes (and all the lovely hand dyed threads that I have !)

In the garden

If the slugs didn't eat them I would have delphiniums in my garden.....so I embroider them instead !

There's a little garden of buttons going on to Etsy this week . I'm working my way through my range of 1930's inspired embroidered buttons , the delphiniums and bellis are in two colours and the hollyhocks...

..... in this heatwave they are all that is flowering in my garden.

Munstead Wood

 Another of my new pieces ,a pendant. This one was inspired by the colour of one of my roses , the David Austin rose 'Munstead Wood'. It is such a dark red and smells so good , I have been making rose water all week for my hair ! The pendant is all done in french knots on green silk linen. There is another version too which looks like the centre of  an opium poppy( in the same colour) just click on the etsy link or go to
The Glass Pingle at etsy from here.

Modernity? !!

A new venture..... I like embroidered covers for things and after making covers for everything in my handbag it occurred to me that other people might too !! The first fruits are i-phone covers and memory stick covers. Using my stash of hand dyed threads I have worked them in my favourite stitches. For the covers themselves I have used some lovely pieces of linen and silk linen and they are all lined in Liberty print cottons with useful hanging loops. 

'just click on my etsy link to see all the new stuff !

Elven heart

This is just a small project to see where I could push the needlelace this time ! It is very small and I worked it in some lovely silk from Pearsalls. As for technique , a basic single brussels stitch base which I then worked into with more buttonholing , picots and french knots. I had no plan as I went, I just wanted an organic texture and something which could possibly be worn.

Thankyou

This is just to say 'thankyou' to everyone who has commented recently ,I'm afraid I can't reply through the comments section at the moment as it keeps sending them to the wrong person ! It is,however, lovely to hear from the very kind and generous people who read my blog !