Alison,

Ah pins, the bane of my working life! They are a pain, but I do have a couple of tips that should help!

First, as Gail says above, holding the card up so that the thread hangs down is the quickest solution (and one you can see me doing in the videos –  thankfully i have to delete the audio when I speed the video up, removing the sounds…[Read more]

Yes, so sorry, I did print the directions.  I have been off kilter in this course since I printed your pages but could not see all the gridlines and could not do the basting.   Then Dawn talked about EGA not uploading the directions and I was further confused, thinking there were additional directions.

PLEASE, those of you who have done Le…[Read more]

I held the piece above my eye level so the strings hung down away from the needles while I laced.

for blood stains I use contact lens cleaner which is deluded hydrogen peroxide and scrub lightly with a toothbrush.

Becky,

That’s excellent news, I was away over the weekend so only just able to get back and measure the lace.

Best wishes,

Sarah

And, never mind, I found it. Whew!

Becky

Thank you for your feedback Sarah, it is very helpful. I am now going to start lesson 3 😊

Nikki 🌻

Dear Sarah, thank you so much! It was such a great pleasure learning these new techniques from you!🌹🌞❤️

Marita,

I think your monogram is beautiful – very delicate and neat, it looks like you have that cylindrical shape all the way through, which is tricky to do.

I would suggest that with your feathered chain stitch, if you pull just a little tighter on your thread as you come back up through the chain will help to get a consistent shape of the…[Read more]

Hi Nikki,

You’ve done a nice job with the box construction, everything looks nice an well fitted together. I can see a couple of the ladder stitches joining the inner to the outer, but this I think is due to the pale thread used, if you had a darker thread they would probably be completely invisible.

On the trailing, the over stitches look l…[Read more]

Becky,

I think the knot at the join is a lovely little touch! Your trailing is nice and neat, there is a small wobble just before the cross over, but you’ve done a nice job with the tapering and on the join in the outer ring.

Sarah

Hi Marty,

Ir looms like your fabric coverage is nice an neat and tight. The inner looks slightly higher than the outer, but that could just be the angle, so in future just adding a little more to the height might help.

It looks like you ladder stitch is working really nicely along the top gadget, but there is a tiny but of gapping at the corners…[Read more]

Thank you! I am not completely new to embroidery but this work was very difficult for me. It was very hard to cut the carton exactly to measure, lacing was also very difficult. The monogram was the hardest, especially making the lines of various widths and closing the oval.
I need to practice more.🌞

Not great, but finished.  Now that I have done it once, I think I could do it again.Any suggestions?

I think it looks lovely – well done!