Courses
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FreeChristmas Sparkles 2025
The 2025 Christmas ornament, part of the Christmas Baubles Series, featuring sampler stitches and a metal threads from the Tyrol region. These gilt folien add a wonderful sparkle to the piece. Gilt folien and threads available in shop
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Fancy Finishes Sampler Ornament
This course explores using silk passementerie fibers to trim our counted work ornaments to give them a bit of pizzazz. The counted work uses a variety of stitches to work the sampler in soie d'alger threads.
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Rose Glove Scissors Case
This scissors case as a glove, is inspired by the multitude of 17th century sweet bags and cushions which use tent stitch to work a design and then a long gobelin stitch in gold or silver thread for the background, imparting a delicious shine.
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Tudor and Stuart Gold Master Class
Learn the interlacing, braid and needlelace stitches of the 17th century as worked with gold threads for spot samplers and scrolling vine patterns typical of the period on home items and fashion.
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Martha's Silk Satin Pincushion
Learn to work counted stitches on silk satin fabric
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2025 Historic Sampler Design Course
Teaching the fundamentals of designing samplers based on historical motifs