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| The world's best needlework magazine, Inspirations, is coming to Beacon, New York. Join Susan O'Connor for 4 days of Embroidery Heaven at the Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, New York USA |
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| The Class Calendar for May to July, 2012 is now available. Download the brochure or the monthly overview for a great selection of classes. Choose from the Supper Stitch Club with Anna Scott, Stitch 'n' Chats with Monique Johnston, Stitch 'n' Sew with Simela Constant and beginner smocking with Cathy Gunn. Visiting teachers include Margaret Lee, Carol Young and Wendy Whellum. |
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| After careful consideration Country Bumpkin Publications has made the extremely difficult decision to discontinue publishing Australian Smocking & Embroidery magazine. The final issue of this publication will be issue 100. This letter to everyone gives detailed information, if you require further information please contact us. |
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| The Class Calendar for the first term of 2012 is now available. There are many wonderful classes to attend, including fortnightly, Tuesday evening classes with Anna Scott, weekly Stitch 'n' Chats with Monique Johnston, sewing for construction with Simela Constant and beginner smocking with Cathy Gunn and Heidi Reid. Visiting teachers include Margaret Lee, Carol Young and Christine Bishop... each teaching and inspiring us with their incredible talent and beautiful projects. |
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| We are excited to announce that we are having a launch for Inspirations 72 on Wednesday, 26 October 2011 and would love to see you here at Country Bumpkin. |
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| There are lots of wonderful classes to attend, including thread painting with Jenny McWhinney, wool embroidery with Helen Eriksson and stumpwork with Susan O'Connor plus much more.
Plus every week there are needlework groups you can join in and have fun while you stitch! There's a Sew 'n' Chat on Wednesday nights and Stitch 'n' Chat on Monday mornings, some Wednesday mornings and every Thursday night. |
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| There are lots of wonderful classes this term, including thread painting with Jenny McWhinney, wool embroidery with Helen Eriksson, goldwork with Anna Scott and stumpwork with Susan O'Connor plus much more. Plus a FREE Stitch 'n' Chat class on Wednesday, 31 August 2011. |
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| Smocking, Embroidery and Sewing Construction Classes in a monthly Calendar - August to December 2011. |
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| Susan O’Connor is off to Ireland for more embroidery classes in June and July 2011. This is the third time Susan has been invited back to teach to this wonderful group of women. There are gorgeous three projects to create... a wool embroidered blanket, broderie anglaise sachet and a stumpwork picture. |
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| Country Bumpkin travels to Whyalla, South Australia on Saturday and Sunday, 14th and 15th May 2011 to teach embroidery. |
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| Fi and Susan travelled to Paris in February 2011 to take Country Bumpkin to the l’Aiguille en fete. |
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| Embroidery masterclasses in London and Paris with Susan O'Connor. The dates are as follows : l'Aiguille en Fête - 10th to 13th February 2011, Paris classes - 16th, 17th, 18th, 21st and 22nd February 2011, London classes - 25th, 26th and 27th February 2011 |
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| Oliver's Quilt is a special community quilt, created to raise funds for Spinal Muscular Atrophy Association. The quilt design was inspired by Janet Bridgland's paintings, with each part of Janet's original painting recreated into 'blocks' and embroidered, then assembled together to be what is now known as Oliver's Quilt. |
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| Following the devastating Victorian bushfires in February this year, Margie received an email from Sara, a member of the Greater Pacific Region branch of the Embroiderers' Guild of America. Sara told Margie how she and her guild had started the 'Threads for Healing' project and were gathering needlework supplies to send to their stitching sisters across the world who had lost so much. Country Bumpkin eagerly agreed to come on board and organise the distribution of these generous donations. Here is a little insight into how this project unfurled... |
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| By now you will be familiar with the delightful illustrations which have been scattered throughout Inspirations since issue 57. They are the work of my dear friend from schooldays, Janet Bridgland. |
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| The first Needlecraft Exhibition was held in September 1992 in the new Victor Harbor Recreation Centre. It was an idea, of Justine Henwood, who working amongst fabric and needlecraft supplies and shown all the finished items by her customers, decided that she shouldn't be the only lucky one to see the beautiful work completed by all the women and men on the Fleurieu Peninsula... |
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| I wanted to share some of the photos with you from the trip that Susan O'Connor and I recently made to Europe. Susan taught three classes in each city - Monogramming, Threadpainting and Stumpwork. We had such an amazing time, meeting so many wonderful people and saw some incredible sights! We had students come from many countries to take part in the classes, including Scotland, France, Holland, Canada, Belfast and the US... |
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