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A gift for you from Valentina...

GOOD morning, stitching world ♫♬♪♫♬♪♫♬♪ It’s cold and its raining in Cape Town – a good day for embroidery.. Click on images to enlarge I thought you would enjoy this lovely piece by Valentina Ilkova уважением,Валентина from Nakhodka, Russia Here are some close-up photographs of her beautiful work Click on the...

A beautiful piece by Tetiana Korobeinyk (Татьяна Коробейник) from Italy ....

Good morning from a rainy and cold Cape town Hope you are all looking forward to the weekend ♥ Today I want to show a beautiful piece which Татьяна Коробейник (Tetiana Korobeinyk) from Italy sent in for the International Silk Ribbon Embroidery competition. Татьяна Коробейник is from the Ukraine, and now lives with her hubby and son in lives in Foggia, Italy. She loves nature...

Fourth Prize ….. International Silk Ribbon Embroidery competition

Fourth prize 2011 Hulya Gondur Sonmez, (Belsu-Crafturk) Istanbul, Turkey for her entry of a combination of Dreamscapes designs: WHLE25 and WH123 – the bicycles. Hulya has won a prize to the value of R3700.00 and her entry will feature in the beautiful Stitches Magazine

Third Prize ….. International Silk Ribbon Embroidery competition

Third prize 2011 Marlize Meyer (Flowers & Thyme Studio) Pretoria, South Africa for her entry: WHLE54 – Ballerina at ease Marlize has won a prize to the value of R3800.00 and her entry will feature in the beautiful Inspirations Magazine.

Second Prize .... International Silk Ribbon Embroidery competition.

Second prize 2011 Maria de Graaff, Mossel Bay, South Africa for her entry of Garden Pond (Box full of lessons 7) Congratulations! Maria has won a prize to the value of R4000.00 and her entry will feature in the beautiful Stitches Magazine

First prize ... International Silk Ribbon Embroidery competition. Annamaria Kelly

First prize 2011 Annamaria Kelly, Johannesburg, South Africa for her entry: WHLE25 – Country Garden. Congratulations! Annamaria has won a prize to the value of R6000.00 and her entry will feature in the beautiful Inspirations Magazine issue #74 out in second quarter of 2012 If you are interested in the panel and the list of ribbons that were used in...

August 2011

Di van Niekerk's August Newsletter August 2011 Greetings to you from a warm and sunny Newlands in Cape Town. I am pleased to give you good news today! The winners of the International Silk Ribbon Embroidery Competition have been chosen by the seven judges of this competition. The judges were from Australia, USA and South Africa and they had a difficult time choosing from the 196 photographs that were...

African Sunset...

Good morning stitching world ♥ I hope you all had a good weekend. It is a beautiful day in Cape Town and I thought — to brighten up your day — I would show you this lovely African Sunset by Andre Bester... The newsletter is going out today about the winners of the competition. Werner is working on it at this moment, and he will...

The competition...

G’Day, stitching world ♫♬♪♫♬♪♫♬♪ Hope you are having a good Women’s day —not sure if it I a holiday in South Africa only, or in the rest of the world, but Happy Woman’s day to you regardless of where you live in this world :) The judges results are in and the winners of the international silk ribbon embroidery competition have been selected. I am busy...

Fly stitch

Fly stitch Fly stitch is worked the same way as you would with a detached chain stitch or lazy daisy stitch, but insert the needle a short distance away from where the first stitch emerged: Anchor the stitch by taking the needle to the back of your work each time. Long anchoring stitches can be made in varying lengths for an interesting effect....

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