The Australian embroidery magazine, Inspirations, will feature the design and instructions for my Winter Mistletoe Scarf in issue 76, to be released later this month.
This has been a very interesting year for me, full of new experiences & opportunities. Not only did I start a new job in a new field, but for the very first time I had an embroidery design published. I was barely done wrapping up the details on the first publication when I was contacted by Inspirations about the Mistletoe Scarf design.
I'm really excited to see the upcoming issue of Inspirations magazine. I believe all of you who follow Elizabethan embroidery will want to get their hands on a copy, if at all possible.
I have been corresponding with the lovely ladies at Inspirations for months. At the start of the process I mailed my scarf to them, along with any design notes, etc. (Inspirations writes the instructions for their featured projects in order to keep formatting consistent throughout their magazine.) Our discussions on my design began. I was tickled to find out that they were unaware of one of the fibers I used on the scarf - Gilt Sylke Twist! In researching the thread, they stumbled across the whole Plimoth Jacket project, of which they were also unaware. Of course they were very excited to read about the reproduction jacket. As a result of my having used GST threads on my scarf, this issue of Inspirations will include an article about the jacket project as well as my scarf design! How's that for serendipity?
Once again, I want to thank everyone who follows my embroidery and who has helped me along the way. It has been an amazing journey. The pleasant surprise for me is that my love of embroidery has been the agent by which I have met so many wonderful people who went out of their way to assist me with no expectations in return. Which leads me to wonder... if the next President of the United States was not only a woman, but an Embroiderer, maybe my world would be a better place.
It's astonishing that anyone professionally imvolved in the embroidery world doesn't know about the Plimoth Jacket - I'm glad you were able to enlighten them!
ReplyDeleteWell, the Plimoth jacket project was primarily broadcast through word of mouth (via the web, of course). In the beginning of the project, it astonished me how quickly word spread. But, that was mostly here in the States & in England. I don't know how quickly it spread in other countries. The Inspirations people are half way 'round the world, and their magazine doesn't focus exclusively on historical embroidery, so that may explain it.
DeleteI am excited to be be able to recreate one of your projects. I had mentioned to you of doing a SAL and this is the next best thing. Im still waiting to see the project from the Sampler magazine that should be in the Winter edition.
ReplyDeleteWendi Girard
Thank you Wendi!
DeleteIf you decide to try one of the projects, I'd love to see your results! You can email photos, or questions, to me at kservello@comcast.net.
Congratulations, dear friend! I am anxious to see the magazine.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I got a copy for you. If you want it before our Tudor Group meets again maybe we could get together. I'd like you to see my progress on the Aran sweater. Wouldn't you know it - I had to go and change the design - and being a beginner knitter, I have no idea if the change will work once I attach the sleeves to the body! : )
DeleteDouble congratulations on the scarf and the mini-pocket book in SANQ!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
Delete*Absolutely wonderful* to read of the publication of the Scarf - I've always been very fond of that piece!
ReplyDeleteCB are a bit late in 'getting in the picture', aren't they! I guess they are spread so wide across our area.
Thank you for your kind words!
DeleteThere's just so much information out there on the web that I can understand how CB missed the jacket project. I am really looking forward to their Plimoth jacket article. I've saved every magazine that wrote about it and I have them all tucked away together with the list of stitchers who worked on it. I'd love to see more museums do projects like that! How cool would that be???
Jag är väldigt glad att jag hittade din blogg , du har fantastiska broderier!
ReplyDeleteDin blogg är väldigt inspirerade därför blir en av mina favoriter!