tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61289449959790994922024-03-18T17:22:25.473+00:00NANCY NICHOLSONVisit <a href="http://www.nancynicholson.co.uk">nancynicholson.co.uk</a> to see our latest range of embroidery kits and downloadsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger165125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128944995979099492.post-22664586660152759002016-11-25T10:41:00.000+00:002016-11-25T11:11:02.605+00:00New Embroidery Designs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is what I have been busy with this last month ... <a href="http://nancynicholson.co.uk/product/tree/" target="_blank">TREE</a> Cushion Kit and <a href="http://nancynicholson.co.uk/product/garden/" target="_blank">GARDEN</a> Cushion Kit</div>
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They are now ready and up on the <a href="http://nancynicholson.co.uk/" target="_blank">new website</a> to order for Christmas. I am so pleased with how they have turned out that I am keen to do some more kits on the same theme, though many cry out for more CATS! I will get round to it ... I promise. But then there's all the fish, flowers, birds etc flying around in my head! I just need to go with the flow right now and flowers seem to be what is in my mind. No, not Christmasy, but those who know me also know I am not a huge fan of sticking to seasonal things particularly ... but now I am going to try to blog more when I have worked out how to use the new blog which goes with the website. So much to learn and Christmas does get in the way so! Apologies to those who can cope with all the added stress!</div>
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These two new kits, as you can see have been designed to be framed or made into cushion panels. In making the samples I found I really loved playing with the colours and not being too restricted by the stitch map. Have fun playing with your own colour combinations and stitches. That is what they are for after all, to experiment and make them individual to you. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com155tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128944995979099492.post-11585973023091456272016-11-24T17:56:00.000+00:002016-11-24T18:00:15.807+00:00Christmas Pockets<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here's something to get stuck into for Christmas ... all a little late but it has been a very busy month, Here I have tried to design something simple to make, three little Christmas pockets which can be made singly or in multiples to make an advent garland. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/474719222/christmas-pocket-decoration-instant?ref=shop_home_active_4" target="_blank">You can download here</a> </div>
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News coming up of new kits and NEW WEBSITE with the invaluable help of Kirsty from <a href="http://www.sosweb.co.uk/" target="_blank">SOSWEB</a>! Any day now ... Lovely new photos too by my chum Vanessa at <a href="http://www.thepixelkitchen.photography/" target="_blank">Pixel Kitchen</a> and last week (Feels a lot longer we moved the studio to a proper premises away from the cottage ... so I have my living room back and a very much more efficient work space int which to pack orders and keep the ever increasing stock levels from overwhelming my home. Now I come home to relax a bit (still no internet at the studio so office and admin have clung on at home). More in a day or so ...</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128944995979099492.post-17050844041096594532016-08-20T15:36:00.002+01:002016-08-26T15:04:29.606+01:00Royal Yacht Brittania<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I recently had an email from a lovely lady who is working on the Netflix production of The Crown.<br />
As my mother designed the embroidery which hangs above the Queens bed on the Royal Yacht Britannia back in 1953, they have asked for permission to use the design in the film, and plan to make a replica. I actually have the original watercolour she did, I knew it was somewhere safe ... but the trouble with putting something away in a safe place means it then gets muddled in the brain filing cabinet ... so ensued a turning upside down of all the archiving of my mothers extensive works I have been doing, and of course it was not where it should have been! So it meant an upturning of almost the whole cottage ... But I now have a very organised studio ... but this morning I suddenly remembered where it was, went straight to the right drawer and there it was ...<br />
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Though she was commissioned to do the design, it was then given to the <a href="http://www.royal-needlework.org.uk/" target="_blank">Royal School of Needlework</a> to embroider, very finely in silks. <br />
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Quoted from <a href="https://embroiderersguild.com/index.php?page_no=230" target="_blank">here</a><br />
"<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "source sans pro" , "arial" , "verdana" , "helvetica san-serif"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The silk embroidered panels were designed and created in 1953 and were the inspiration of Joan Nicholson, a young British designer, chosen by Sir Hugh Casson (HM The Queen’s chosen designer for </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, Verdana, "Helvetica san-serif"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Britannia’s</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "source sans pro" , "arial" , "verdana" , "helvetica san-serif"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">State Apartments)."</span><br />
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Quoted from <a href="https://embroiderersguild.com/index.php?page_no=230" target="_blank">here</a> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "source sans pro" , "arial" , "verdana" , "helvetica san-serif"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"The Queen wanted the embroidery to remind her of home when she was traveling abroad, with hedgerows, wild flowers and butterflies. Ivory silk from France was chosen for the background and it took several skilled workers many months to complete at the Royal School of Needlework in London.</span> "<br />
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I am very proud of her ... a young mother with two small children, I was not around but so glad I still have this precious document, though very delicate and fragile and somewhat faded. It will now be filed in the correct place! Look out for The Crown when it is out (not sure when)<br />
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It has taken a few months but at last the book is in production and will be out November 16th this year. Thanks to all at David and Charles for being so patient with me! You can pre-order the book <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Modern-Folk-Embroidery-Contemporary-Projects/dp/1446306291/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469703312&sr=8-1&keywords=Modern+Folk+Embroidery" target="_blank">NOW here</a> to get your copy as soon as it is available.<br />
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I have also been designing some new cards to add to the collection I have done for The Art Group, (below) <a href="https://www.artclubcards.co.uk/collections/nancy-nicholson" target="_blank">available here</a> ... The 5 new designs include these two, which may also become kits in the near future! I am already finding myself thinking bizarrely about Christmas, which is like brushing my hair the wrong way, while the dog is panting in the heat and the sun beckons me to come into the garden and hack down the brambles ... so we can venture to the jungle at the back of the garden.<br />
We recently also began supplying John Lewis for Autumn Winter so yesterday stuck on 800 barcodes to the kits they have ordered.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">It has been a very busy few months here ... I have been working on a book for David and Charles, which will be coming out in November. It is called Modern Folk Embroidery, by me. And I think soon you can pre-order it through Amazon but will post details when I know. Soon I can promote it too with taster photos of the projects. </span></div>
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But while doing projects for the book I designed this Felt Cat Family as a download. It all began with a folk doll made for the book and then I found I just had to try the same (ish) shape for a cat toy too. Muma came first then as the pattern can just be scaled up and down at will ... came Papa and Kitten ... I could have gone on and on and may well do when I have more time. A white one next with hot pink and reds and oranges (my default colour setting) ...<br />
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So you can download this Cat Family <a href="http://www.nancynicholson.co.uk/catfamily.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> which is a very simple felt toy to make, and uses a few simple hand embroidery stitches to great effect. The great thing is it is open to your own creativity regarding the stitch combinations, you could go stripy, spotty, zigzaggy ... endless possibilities!<br />
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Here is our new download for the SPRING. An A4 sampler with two rather surprised owls. I get asked so many times to do owls ... so I gave in. You can download <a href="http://www.nancynicholson.co.uk/owl.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></div>
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And there's a
special bonus thank you for ordering the first of our new owl
downloads ― an exclusive download pattern of the robin design that
makes up the Nancy Nicholson logo! The pattern is on p6 of this PDF,
with the stitch guide on p5. Just follow the general instructions
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This is a special
commemoration celebrating the beginning of our fifth year in
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I’ve been
working with textiles for most of my adult life, as a maker and
teacher. Four years ago I launched my first range of designs,
initially as press out card models, and then as the <a href="http://www.nancynicholson.co.uk/catstitch.html" target="_blank">Cat</a> and <a href="http://www.nancynicholson.co.uk/catstitch.html" target="_blank">Bird</a>
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I wanted everyone
to be able to learn hand embroidery, and to inspire them to do so
with contemporary designs. So the Cat and Bird were swiftly followed
by <a href="http://www.nancynicholson.co.uk/lovebirdssew.html" target="_blank">Lovebirds</a> and the <a href="http://www.nancynicholson.co.uk/teapotkit.html" target="_blank">Teapot</a>, and then the <a href="http://www.nancynicholson.co.uk/birdie1.html" target="_blank">Birdie</a> group of four
smaller kits for children and beginners. We’ve also extended the
range with five new cushion kits including the very popular <a href="http://www.nancynicholson.co.uk/birddance.html" target="_blank">BirdDance</a>.</div>
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Not least, if
you’re reading this you’ll know we’ve created an exciting range
of instant downloads from our Etsy shop: designs you can print out
and transfer onto lightweight fabric and stitch for rapid
gratification!</div>
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This is an
exciting time for the business. In the coming year there will be a
new range of cushion kits, and I am working on a book with publishers
David and Charles! We’re getting more and more interest from shops,
including large retailers, which means the design style is going to
get seen by more and more people.
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I hope you can
feel some pride in being an early enthusiast for this work. Thank you
for all your support and for helping me grow this business to become
so special.</div>
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Here is a little guide on how to print onto fabric using your home inkjet printer. It is surprisingly simple once you get used to it. You can buy Reynolds Freezer paper from Amazon <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00EME5KZ0?keywords=reynolds%20freezer%20paper&qid=1455966297&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1" target="_blank">HERE</a> ... and all our downloadable patterns are <a href="http://www.nancynicholson.co.uk/printables.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> so you can confidently have a go!</div>
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Here are my 2015 Christmas Baubles! Go to the <a href="http://www.nancynicholson.co.uk/xmas2015.html" target="_blank">website</a> for instant download! They will also be in the Country Living feature I believe ... They are very addictive to make and the variations are endless. In the download there is a pattern and, stitch library, and stitchmap to show you where to place the stitches, I am quite proud of it. I just love doing the downloads, it is hugely satisfying and appeals to my sense of order, though I am in truth constantly struggling with organisation!</div>
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<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />I have finally finished the long process of designing, experimenting, having prototypes printed, and embroidering three new kits. There are two more coming but time is running out to complete other things, (like the new website) before the craziness that is Christmas is upon us again. </div>
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So here we have Bird Dance, Cuckoo, Bluebird, and ... all can be either made into cushions or framed and admired once you have embroidered them. Or if you are not an embroiderer then they make great pictures anyway! </div>
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We had a great time at <a href="http://craft.farnhammaltings.com/portfolio/thread-festival/" target="_blank">Thread in Farnham Maltings</a> at the end of September and loved meeting so many like minded people, the bacon butties, and danish pastries which kept us going for two days!</div>
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The Bird Dance cushion proved a wonderful success and it was so good to show after so long in development ...</div>
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Now we are getting ready for Christmas and a piece in <a href="http://www.countryliving.co.uk/#!" target="_blank">Country Living Christmas Issue</a>. (out end of October) ...</div>
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Please do follow me on INSTAGRAM as there are sneaky peaks at work and ideas in the raw plus many things which inspire me and also Biddy of course... </div>
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A couple of weeks ago I had a very exciting and emotional day visiting <a href="http://www.moda.mdx.ac.uk/home" target="_blank">Moda, Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture</a> which is part of Middlesex University. They have a fantastic archive and amongst that are many wallpaper designs by my father Roger and uncle Robert Nicholson... along with many of their contemporaries of that time ... 1956 - late 1960s.<br />
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This body of work was made for Palladio Wallpapers and I remember a lot of the designs being worked on in his studio as a very young child. Some of them were used to cover the walls of our house in Sissinghurst, Kent and when I came across one which I had in my bedroom it was like coming across an old and dear friend, every tendril and break in the ink was familiar, every secret face hidden in amongst the design, we all look so intently at our bedroom walls as children, a sort of half dreamlike place where the wallpaper design takes on a life of it's own full of monsters and faces, movements, and secret places. You can see the design below ... of an intertwining clematis.<br />
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The designs were all in old wallpaper sample books kindly brought out by the lady who had got in touch with me from the museum, together with articles of the time from Architectural Reviews, with adverts for the wallpapers drawn by my father ...<br />
Every page turned was thrilling and I found I was able to spot many of his and also of a dear family friend Ted Hughes (not the poet!), Eric Thomas and of my uncle Robert Nicholson.<br />
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But a surprise was finding papers designed by my father which I had not seen before! Such a delight to see them and together with the archive I have at home and also the collection at the V&A, I realise that I must do something about bringing his work to the public eye. I am going with Moda to see the collection at the V&A very soon and I am really excited to go into the inner sanctum ... I will report back of course.<br />
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I hope to gather more information over the next few weeks and add to this article ... Forgive the iphoneness of the photos!<br />
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Some photos from my trip to see the boys in Berlin, both of them loving living and working there, and I don't blame them, it is a free and creative place, edgy but warm too, full of life and vibrancy ... Those darling ones above both bearded now ... Will on the left and Tom the oldest on the right. Too proud ... here we are just about to dive into three huge burgers!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More of the above ... The apartment where Will is staying.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lunch made for me by Will one day ... </td></tr>
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Yes, yes I am working really hard on quite a number of new designs of which more later but I just want to share something which I am quite pleased with and which gave me a warm glow and pat of encouragement which I needed at the beginning of the week ... knowing I would be sat in front of the computer for many hours ...<br />
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I saw on Pinterest a front cover illustration for a book which got my radars twirling. Canvas Work by Jennifer Gray pub 1960.<br />
Here it is below and you can see why I might be excited. Maybe not but it did it for me and I looked further, went to the wonderful <a href="http://www.abebooks.co.uk/" target="_blank">ABE BOOKS</a> (secondhand books from all over the world) and found a copy for a few pounds £3.00 I think. What treasure! It came on Monday, and I was thrilled with it, my absolute tip top style of decoration and drawings good stitch explanations and diagrams, fantastic colour pallete.<br />
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THEN I saw a beautiful seat cover which immediately looked familiar in style and yes, it was by my mother! I have not seen this design before and it was worked during her time with the Needlework Development Scheme, and it is perfect. I spent the afternoon completely distracted by the whole thing and drew up the design in Illustrator, printed it onto white linen and am in the process of working it up hopefully turning into a design for our new range. Though it may be a lovely download too ... maybe both! But I will post the results very soon.<br />
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Enjoy the rest of the pages from the book I have scanned!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">My surprise, my mother's design for a seat cover!</span></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128944995979099492.post-47400294021922663662015-05-31T18:04:00.000+01:002015-05-31T18:04:37.892+01:00Needlework Development Scheme Leaflets<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A while ago I gave a small talk with slides to the Embroiderer's Guild in Tunbridge Wells. It was a gentle talk about my mother's life's work with textiles and embroidery and her influence on my own work. She did work with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needlework_Development_Scheme#cite_note-vam-1" target="_blank">NDS</a> during the early part of her career as a designer and author. Some of my audience had brought along their own copies of some of her books which was so heart warming ... I was also approached by a lady I have met a few times at exhibitions in the past who said she still had her mother's NDS leaflets used while teaching and would love me to have them. Shortly afterwards she and another friend and I had a lovely morning embroidering samples and looking through these fabulous leaflets. I also have the book And Sew to Embroider, also a NDS book which has my mother's designs in ... I have scanned them all inside and out and am sharing the covers here and thinking about best way to share all in time ... and there are more to come!<br />
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The first (below) is a complete four page leaflet and following are just the covers. The colours alone are lovely ... TREASURE indeed.<br />
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Well, we returned more than a week ago, but I have been busy dealing with backlog of work which inevitably piles up when you go away, and though it was a working "away" ... we had such a lovely time at Pour l'amour du fil that we began to think of it as a holiday ... anyway, who wants to be lying around in the sunshine with nothing to do? Better by far to meet many new, and like minded friends and see many inspiring things coming home full of ideas and ready for a refreshed start!<br />
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Mind you it was a bumpy start .. my old banger failed it's MOT three days before we had to leave and there was a panic until we found another old banger to torture with a 6 hours drive there and back ... but we did it! What a relief to be on the ferry finally and on our way from Dover to Calais.<br />
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And France was glorious on the journey down, clothing itself slowly in green the further down we drove ... arriving late in Nantes with nowhere to eat left open but MacDonald's ... oh dear the less said the better. Still we were comforted by the prospect of better eating over the next few days.<br />
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Now I am not going to bore you with a blow by blow account of the show, though I might talk about some highlights in detail as I go ... but I think I will make it a visual account mostly, and also a contact library of the artists and craftsmen who were there. Needless to say Nantes is a beautiful city on the Loire, it's cathedral a splendour to behold restored immaculately after a fire nearly destroyed it in 1970s ... oh and there may have to be some plates of food ... sorry, just this once.<br />
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We will definitely go again next year if we are asked to, so make it a date too and you will not be disappointed for sure!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our stand at </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">Pour </span>l'amour<span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;"> </span>du<span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;"> </span>fil</td></tr>
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2. <a href="http://www.megaknitz.com/" target="_blank">Rachel John</a> with her enormous luxurious knitting ... managed to stay cool. Our chum for the week!<br />
5. Margaret, the first English voice to greet us from <a href="http://www.fabricaffair.co.uk/Collections.aspx" target="_blank">Fabric Affair</a> click to find out more as they exhibit their lovely kits all over England too.<br />
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1. I have bought a needle punch hoop and needle and just now need time to DO! But so inspired by this stand <a href="http://www.lospaziodelcuore.it/" target="_blank">Lo Spazio del Cuore</a></div>
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4. Incredible sashiko kits by <a href="http://www.sashiko-ya.fr/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: yellow;">Sashiko-ya</span>,</a> who we talked to more at the BANQUETTE! Really want to have a go at this1</div>
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<a href="http://www.quiltmania.com/english/home.html" target="_blank">Quiltmania</a> stand and some of my fellow exhibitors and visitors ...<br />
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1. Beautiful Fabrics and wooden stamps at <a href="http://neelam.fr/" target="_blank">Neelam</a><br />
2. Fabulous collections of buttons and craft kits from <a href="http://www.atelierbonheurdujour.com/index.cfm" target="_blank">Atelier bon Heur du Jour</a><br />
3. Beautiful Fabrics and wooden stamps at <a href="http://neelam.fr/" target="_blank">Neelam</a><br />
4. I bought an antique spindle from this lovely stand but failed to take a card. I could have bought many treasures here but I think <a href="http://kinekelly.over-blog.com/tag/dominique%20jouvenet/" target="_blank">THIS</a> is the place to go!<br />
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The stand I kept going back to, which made me want to make quilts again was <a href="http://www.dutchquilts.com/" target="_blank">Dutch Heritage, Den Haan Wagenmakers</a> The examples were delicious and the fabrics too beautiful.<br />
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Another stand which kept drawing me back was <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Le-comptoir-des-fleurettes/230615073759181?fref=ts" target="_blank">Le Comptoir des Fluerettes</a>. Everything you need to make your own individual jewelery by stitching the metal plates (above) embroidering felt balls etc etc ... see their FB page by clicking on their name above ... yes I bought some and will post the results. Also look <a href="http://marielesbasbleus.canalblog.com/" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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Quilts by the stars ... <a href="http://www.mobilia-gallery.com/artists/tnagano/index.html" target="_blank">Tomie Nagano</a><br />
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An inspiring display of antique quilts from <b><a href="http://www.billvolckening.com/Bill_Volckening/The_Volckening_Collection.html" target="_blank">Bill Volckening</a></b><br />
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The FEAST! Mountains of oysters and prawns, salads and meats, pate, local cheeses, desserts to die for, wine, coffee ...<br />
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Here I am with <a href="http://www.megaknitz.com/" target="_blank">Rachel John</a> and the lovely couple from <a href="http://www.sashiko-ya.fr/fr/" target="_blank">Sashiko-ya</a> enjoying the INCREDIBLEY generous banquette which the organizers laid on for the exhibitors ... it was delicious and unexpected! THANK YOU!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128944995979099492.post-41332367738679148602015-05-11T10:04:00.001+01:002015-05-11T10:04:29.725+01:00Bird Embroideries<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I am really happy to have been taken on by <a href="http://www.yellowhouseartlicensing.com/" target="_blank">Yellow House Licensing</a> recently and look forward to new horizons as a result. So I have had to collect images of work for them to make a portfolio to represent me. These two bird embroideries were made some years ago, maybe 4-5? and it has been great scan them properly as I never had time when I made them ... but I am definitely feeling it's time to make some more machine embroideries ... time? I must make time. The cottage is now going on the market so I have to keep it tidy and clean and as my kitchen is the nerve centre of this business that is quite a challenge .. also doing these embroideries is incredibly messy and it is a requisite to empty out piles of scraps to rummage through, resulting in myself, the cottage and the dog are then covered in trails of threads ... but I have explained to the agent this is a place of work as well as a picturesque and perfect kentish cottage.</div>
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Firstly, the latest fluster is getting ready for <a href="http://www.pourlamourdufil.com/en/default.aspx" target="_blank">Pour l'Amour du fil"</a> which is "An International Show of the Arts of the Thread" Embroidery, Quilting, Knitting and Sewing in Nantes, yes that's France ... so off we go on 20th April with all our good and chattles ... driving in my dirty old Clio all the way to conquer France with the kits! It's all quite exciting. </div>
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Then below are the latest downloadable designs of which there are going to be 10 this year ... The three below are Set 1 <a href="http://www.nancynicholson.co.uk/butterflies.html" target="_blank">click here</a> and the one at the bottom is one of two for Set 2 which will be ready in a couple of weeks.</div>
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My next challenge is the Heals Modern Craft Market. I imagine it will be quite something so do come along and say hello to me and the other craftsmen there. There will be workshops running through the two week event, my own will be on the 14th click here to see details <a href="http://www.heals.co.uk/page/nancy_nicholson">http://www.heals.co.uk/page/nancy_nicholson</a></div>
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Finally sitting down to catch up with the blog ...<br />
It has been non stop since at least a month before Christmas. Really busy with orders and the usual Christmas frenzy craziness! Oh dear I do find it incredibly over the top then PHOOF! it's all over as though it had never happened and everyone resumes to normal behaviour. Call me a scrooge if you like but there you are. There's a lot about Christmas I like ... the feeling of good cheer, visiting chums, the cooking and making... the travelling away from here to see the boys in Berlin (photos in next blog post, one thing at a time!) and there's some things I could do without ... But when you are also working flat out it becomes very stressful indeed! I am moaning, new years resolution not to moan ...<br />
As soon as I got back from Berlin I had to get on and get organised for Top Drawer. But we got it done and put up in time after a lot of lugging about on trains full of football supporters, but we put it all up in about two hours! Yes on a metre square cube/plinth.<br />
Please forgive the terrible photos ... there is no excuse just did not work out!<br />
I travelled up and down the first two days then stayed in a hotel just six minutes away on Monday night ... feeling very independent and grown up and excited, even though it was basic it was warm and comfortable and a quite bolt hole after the noise and bustle of Olympia. Then home home on Tuesday after a frantic breakdown and an hour waiting to get out of the car park ... all the stand holders desperate also to get home and take stock. Thanks to Emma Rene who also had a stand in the craft section and makes lovely jewellery (sorry no link) Thanks also to my cousin Carol from <a href="http://www.cutaboveproductions.co.uk/">www.cutaboveproductions.co.uk</a> and Kristina Avery from <a href="http://www.a-c-a.biz/">www.a-c-a.biz</a> for coming in to help me out so marvellously!<br />
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Also had a lot of fun chatting to my fellow Spotted friends ... and many others<br />
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Euan Cunningham from <a href="http://www.commissionahouseportrait.com/">www.commissionahouseportrait.com</a><br />
Kate Samuels from <a href="http://www.katesamuelsdesign.co.uk/">www.katesamuelsdesign.co.uk</a><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Questrial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Anna Rumsby from Colourcutie (no website yet) but find her on <a href="https://twitter.com/Colourcutie?lang=en-gb" target="_blank">twitter</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Questrial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Samantha Dumont from Atissu <a href="http://www./">www.</a></span><span style="font-family: Questrial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://atissu.com/">atissu.com</a></span></span><br />
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Next up is Heals Modern Craft Market which is taking place from 2nd Feb to 14th Feb in Heals (obviously) Tottenham Court Road. I will be there at the weekends and am running a workshop on 14th from <span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">12.30-2pm for which you have to book if you would like to come. This is what the blurb says ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><u><b>Discover what it takes to be a modern craftsman in our exclusive hands-on workshops hosted by the exhibitors of the Heal’s Modern Craft Market. </b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Join us as the Heal’s Modern Craft Market learns the art and craft of stitch-work with Nancy Nicholson. During this workshop you will be shown many of the specialist stitches that Nancy uses in her designs, which will also be on display throughout the duration of craft market. You will also be provided with a printed motif for you to stitch and take home to enjoy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13pt;">Location: Heal's, Tottenham Court Road</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Date: Saturday 14th February</b></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128944995979099492.post-14896942224067966242014-11-18T21:29:00.002+00:002015-10-26T09:31:45.525+00:00Christmas Bauble Tutorial 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I had to do this ... after several trials with felt and cardboard I discovered the craft foam ... I had bought some about 10 years ago and it was lying in my paper stash drawer since then waiting for this moment. What could be better? felt, craft foam and thread, oh an a hand operation on my right hand. I have probably delayed recovery by stubbornly making these, but I had already promised I would design some new ones this year and felt duty bound. My operation was for a trigger release on my middle finger which I have needed for months. It has made doing what I do very very hard for all that time, getting increasingly painful and stiff. All I have now is a small healing wound and hopefully less pain and more agility in my hand, before the next operation on my pointy finger on the same hand ... sorry index finger. So the execution is not perfect but I did my best ...<br />
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Enough moaning! This tutorial is now available on the <a href="http://www.nancynicholson.co.uk/baubles.html" target="_blank">website</a> and is for all four decorations with full instructions, stitch library, templates, and stitch guides. </div>
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It has been a busy month too ... Christmas orders are rolling in (thank you to all who have toiled for me while I have been less able!) </div>
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And I now think I can reveal that i am supplying THE NATIONAL TRUST! Yes it is true! Or have I already said ... anyway do let me know if any of you spot one of the kits or Interactive Stationery in a NT property near you! I don't get out much you see ...</div>
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ALSO! I am shutting up shop on DECEMBER 10th, so no orders after that date. </div>
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I had a great two days teaching last week, at the school in Cranbrook where I was artist in residence for a while ... I was a little nervous as I have not taught small children for four years and really unsure if the project I devised would work for them ... on top of that I found out I only had half an hour with each class in the older age group which meant changing my initial idea for them ... I suppose I would see about 200 children in all.</div>
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But it's amazing how it just came back as soon as I was sitting in front of the first class that Monday morning, some of the youngest only just 3 years old! Once I had my toes in the water I was swimming happily again as if it were only yesterday! </div>
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With some great help from parents we showed them how to think about colours and preferences and how to make choices, and feel textures ... they constructed a wonderful pile fabric and thread wound pipe cleaners which we joined together to make the wall hanging in the images below. It would have been great to carry on this project and make a much larger hanging and of course it could have been assembled in many different ways. We also added circles and balls of covered balls of fabric for weight at the bottom ... oh ... the possibilities are endless for this project. </div>
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At the end of the day I remembered something else about teaching ... I could barely remember my name and had to eat nursery supper of 4 sausages and potatoes and a gallon of tea and mindless telly before I felt remotely human again.... and then there was Day Two! Please scroll downward!</div>
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First lesson in, first class of Year 4s ... 8.45 hit the ground running ... 6 classes to go ... wrapping 400 matchboxes throughout the day, with wool and then embroidering with very basic embellishment ... at the end of the day they would be arranged on a metre square board of MDF, glue gunned (teacher's privilege) Below are the first ones off the press. The children really took on the challenge and steamed through it, working hard and most achieving at least two each. My voice still clear, not cracking, getting into the swing ... the best comment has to be a little boy in year 3 who did a fabulously coloured offering with a whole spectrum of colours said to me, dead pan, when I enthused, "these are the same colour as my pants ... " I do miss the great one liners ... these are the professionals. And there was chocolate pudding with chocolate sauce for lunch which was rocket fuel for the afternoon. </div>
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And in the end it was better than I had ever hoped. We still need to complete more matchboxes to cover the board but I will post the finished wall hanging, and being autumn term there are lots of wet breaks coming up to beaver away. I am ready with the glue gun! Happiness ... </div>
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My clothes when I got home had that very familiar and unmistakable smell of school ... in a good way, and it took me a day of talking in words of one syllable only as my brain and body recovered ... I don't know how our teachers do this every day ... oh yes, it's the chocolate pudding ... silly of me.</div>
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We had such a happy time at <a href="http://craft.farnhammaltings.com/portfolio/thread-festival/"><span class="s1">Thread</span></a> in beautiful Farnham. My lovely assistant Amanda was a complete hit with everyone and handled sales and friendly chatter as if she'd been doing it for years! Only 19 but ready for whatever the world has to chuck her way ... very proud surrogate mum (I borrowed her from my dear friend Bobby to whom she really belongs!) We were so impressed with the whole event, organised beautifully, even down to the frequent passing round of chocolates for the stall holders ...</div>
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And the first evening saw us living it up at <a href="http://www.cote-restaurants.co.uk/Cote_Restaurant_Farnham.html" target="_blank">Cote Brasserie</a> in the town and I have to say it was so fabulous I want to recommend it. Apart from the wonderful food we had such wonderful service by the very lovely staff ... </div>
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And after much hard work I can say that the new kits went down so well ... Thread was their official launch, and they are as follows ... </div>
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Celebration Cake Embroidery Kit ... designed with Birthdays and Weddings in mind, or any occasion worth making a fuss about!</div>
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Celebration Cake detail ... showing some of the new stitches you can learn on this sampler ... my stitches are a little wobbly as I was in such a rush to finish the samples for the show.</div>
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The three new Birdie embroidery kits ... from left to right ... Birdie 3, Birdie 1, and Birdie 2.</div>
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Very busy this glorious early autumn with preparations for "thread" ... I am running a <a href="http://craft.farnhammaltings.com/portfolio/workshops-2/" target="_blank">WORKSHOP</a> ... details here and will be bringing some exclusive designs as yet unseen and soon to be on the website. It would be great to see you if you are in or around Farnham 26th and 27th September. I will have all the kits and if I get time some of the interactive stationery too, the new cushion kits and the old favourites and as I said NEW ONES! My dear chums Vanessa from <a href="http://hoophaberdashery.co.uk/" target="_blank">Hoop</a> and Amanda who is a fab and wonderful part time girl friday are helping me out. Very happy to be part of this great event! Looking forward to my workshop, and seeing the other stands ... some great names there ...</div>
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It has all been rather intense this last few weeks as I have also been approached by the National Trust and now find myself supplying them too! A slight nightmare ensues as the volume of the order has meant going up a gear with my stock, the, up till now, humble production line. So an essential trip to IKEA for MORE little boxes to put everything in ... who can resist them? Managed to only spend £90 ... a small miracle in itself and only came away with one or two oddly named tea strainers and kitchen gadgets. My obsession with storage and my inability EVER to actually achieve perfect order is a life long mystery ... it's ok, I know I am not alone. Anyway it all has to go SOMEWHERE before it is delivered to NT! And I am trying.</div>
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Yesterday evening a small miracle happened .... I was in the garden attempting to pull up weeds as a break from the computer toil of the day, and ... the land line rang. I never use my land line and am always a little suspicious of it when it rings as everyone I know rings me on my mobile these days.</div>
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The message was faint but enough to make me curious to call the number back. The number I called was answered by a lovely gentleman, who back in the 1980s had bought a painting at a country house sale. The painting was by Jehan Daly of a Mrs Roger Nicholson, my mother. He found my number from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. He was on a mission to find out who the woman in the portrait was, and I was so excited to see it ... he sent it to me in an email shortly after our conversation. Here it is (above), and it is quite lovely. Jehen Daly was a great family friend of my parents from after the war and he with John Ward and Gordon Davies painted together on various projects and my mother also sat for them. This portrait, though I have never seen it before, is so familiar as I have many sketches of that same pose in my collection, by both Jehan and my father, also oil paintings of her likewise. I know that chair ... it is an old friend ... he was also my sister's godfather and a sweet and gentle man. I have a photo taken by my father of him holding a tabby kitten, black and white, he in ubiquitous tweeds, very of the time ... I am just now rummaging around in the garage to find the old photos so I can scan it in to send to Bill the owner of the painting. I also have an oil painting of Jehan at his easel by my father. </div>
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Then I was ferreting around online to see what there was on Jehan Daly and there is not a great deal but <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/jehan-daly/paintings/slideshow" target="_blank">found this site</a> and went on to type in Roger Nicholson and found this beautiful painting (below) which again I do not remember at all, but would dearly love to know where it is now. I would love it as it is of a period of my father's painting that I particularly love. He was SO good at colour ... exciting, riveting colour ... I remember thinking as a child that the colours he used were entirely a new breed of unknown colour, nothing like the colours I was learning at school ....</div>
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It just kept me thinking of these personal things out in the world I have no idea of the places they have settled or the journeys they have undergone to get there, as my father did not exhibit much, only painting for pleasure he was and is relatively unknown. I would love to have the time to bring them both into the public eye but I have so little time. Anyone out there who would love to do this as a labour of love? Any information about paintings by Roger would be gratefully received ... nancy@nancynicholson.co.uk</div>
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Later .... found them! so lovely to find so many and smile through these lovely but very stinky old photos and so many slides! Anyway here is Jehan, my mother and father, all taken around that the time of the portrait. Also the others mentioned ...<br />
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Here I show you how to create the felt bracelet I have been teaching. It is a great way complete an easy project in a short time, so a quick and satisfying little thing to make, and can be as varied as you like ... experiment with different coloured felts and threads, and a variety of hand embroidery stitches ... even the simplest stitches look effective. I am so influenced by folk art embroidery so it was an obvious choice for a workshop/tutorial. It is perfect for children learning to sew and beginners new to embroidery. I will be teaching it at <a href="http://hoophaberdashery.co.uk/" target="_blank">Hoop</a> September 12th.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Step 5.<br />I would advise taking some time to decide decide which stitches you are choosing and where they will go. A simple sketch will only take you 5 mins but will save you lots of unpicking! Even have a practise of your chosen stitches if needs be. Here I have used Spider's Web Stitch ... because as you may have realised it is a personal favourite, and Fly Stitch. Both are demonstrated <a href="http://nancynicholson.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/stitch%20tutorials" target="_blank">HERE</a>. Always fold the fabric to find centre to start, and keep checking to leave enough felt to trim, rather than taking the stitches too close to each end (see below)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Step 6.<br /><br />Once you have completed your embroidery get a stitch buddy to snip your bracelet to the correct length.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ah! very pleasing ....</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Step 7.<br /><br />Put the three parts together and join using a simple little running stitch (or could be more elaborate like Whipped Running stitch, Stem Stitch, Laced Running Stitch ... Tutorials <a href="http://nancynicholson.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/tutorial-for-whipped-running-stitch-and.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> and <a href="http://nancynicholson.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/running-stitch-and-variations-tutorial.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Step 8.<br /><br />I am hurrying now as my nut cutlets are ready ... Here it is, button sewn on and ready for parading around!</span></td></tr>
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and thread pulling for the kits. SO there you have it ... please enjoy this tutorial and let me see what you have been making by sending pictures into my Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nancynicholsondesign" target="_blank">HERE</a> or email me at nancy@nancynicholson.co.uk</div>
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