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Lyn Weeks |
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Published on Friday 12 February, 2010 |
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| Like many readers of Australian Smocking & Embroidery, Lyn has had a passion for sewing since being introduced to fine needlework as a child. Not until the birth of her daughter however, did a long and varied career with smocking, heirloom sewing, embroidery and teaching become a focal point... |
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| Barbara, who lives in North Carolina, USA, has inherited her mother's passion for stitching. She says one of her earliest memories is seeing her mother "at her machine under a bloom of pink netting so large that I could hardly see the machine. She was making my ballet tutu!"... |
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| Phyllis Maurer Phyllis lives in Nebraska, 'the heartland of America' and is particularly interested in ethnic embroidery techniques – many of which most of us have never come across! Her interesting Kogin chair cover, 'Sitting Pretty', on page 50 is one example... |
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| With her many other activities, it is amazing
that Nettie Morris has time for her 'hobbies'
– needlework and other handicrafts. She
teaches embroidery to groups of women who,
she says, have all become life long friends... |
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| Catherine Ronan, who lives in Memphis, Tennessee, is a metalsmith. Working in sterling silver, bronze, brass, gold and other non-ferrous metals, she designs and constructs by hand small sculptural pieces, jewellery and utilitarian objects |
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| Carol Hawkins, like many of us, finds that flowers are her favourite subject when it comes to embroidery.
"I SEEM TO HAVE A PREFERENCE for flowers which is, perhaps, because of my love of visiting gardens, working in our own garden and picking flowers for our home – although this is becoming more difficult with these last years of drought. For some years I attended art classes which, I am sure, intensified my attention to minute details of plants and also their colour and shading. |
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| The first contribution
to AS&E from Louise
was Gracie in issue 81, and
in this issue we have the
pleasure of presenting
her latest design, Chopper.
Louise's adventures in
embroidery began at
about age 10 when her
parents sent her to the Embroiderers Guild of South
Australia. |
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| I began sewing as a young child,
around the age of 8, when I would
sit by my mother's side and embroider.
You could say I have had a needle in
my hand from the beginning! Because
of the encouragement I received, I
named a smocking plate to honour her
memory, 'The Rose Lee'. Even though
I make all types of childrens clothes,
(christening gowns, smocked and embroidered
clothes, heirloom lace and special occasions), |
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