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Latest News | London by Thea Gouverneur | Thea Gouverneur is one of the leading cross stitch designers in Europe and her designs are admired worldwide. She made her name with cross stitch books on flowers, but more recently she has demonstrated her talent for design in every sphere.
Now from Thea Gouverneur comes London, a cityscape of very detailed landmark buildings: the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral, the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, the Royal Albert Hall and even a red telephone box.
A large counted cross stitch kit for the more experienced stitcher, this is worked in one strand of cotton on 35 count linen. There are ten A3 pages of charts to help and the finished embroidery is nothing short of magnificent.
This latest release from Thea Gouverneur complements her stunning earlier designs of Amsterdam and St. Petersburg. |
| New Cross-Stitch Designs for Spring 2008 by Derwentwater Designs | Derwentwater Designs are located in the English Lake District - one of the most scenic parts of Britain - and this has a strong influence on their collections.
For spring 2008, this long-established company have introduced a new range of kits in cross-stitch, long stitch and blackwork.
In cross-stitch they have added
- a new Lighthouse kit in the Coastal Britain collection
- a new Hydrangea Flower Panel
- a wedding sampler and a flower picture in the Mackintosh Cross Stitch collection
In Long Stitch there are 4 new Seasons in Long Stitch kits together with a Kingfisher and Kestrels pictures
and in blackwork, a new Creative Blackwork kit of a lakeland scene.
The Hydrangea is an especially successful design - a substantial project to relax with over the summer! It's available in both Aida and evenweave fabric.
To see Derwentwater's range, please click here. |
| Mr Men and Little Misses - new from Bothy Threads | Roger Hargreaves' witty, classic characters are back with a bump!
Hargreaves came up with the first character, Mr Tickle, when his son asked him what a tickle looked like, and the others soon followed. The stories were first published in 1971 and became a TV favourite in 1974 with the Little Misses books following 10 years later. Now UK Channel 5 is showing a new series.
Mr Men are characterised by strong primary colours and simple designs which appeal to young eyes.
UK studio Bothy Threads have produced a range of cross stitch kits featuring the main characters in calendars, numbers, alphabet and birth samplers.
These endearing and enduring designs can be viewed by clicking here.
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Art and Craft Events | Zodiac 3000 (Art Exhibitions) - Birmingham, United Kingdom | | A group exhibition based on the new psychology represented in the literary oeuvre of J.G. Ballard.
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| Fragile Democracy: new international photography (Art Exhibitions) - Sunderland, United Kingdom | This exhibition brings together a selection of photographers and artists from around the world who use the camera to document communities, micro-societies and subcultures in a state of economic and political transition, or who use the camera in an ethnographic idiom.
All of the contemporary works have either been made especially for Fragile Democracy or are shown here for the first time in the UK.
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| Insight Out (Art Exhibitions) - London, United Kingdom | This is a group show of paintings by four artists that deal with an idea of place or space reflecting reality through some kind of representation.
The exhibition questions how, and in which ways, internal processes and worlds can be represented through the language of the image and through the language of a medium and what the work can say beyond the image depicted. | | more ... |
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