Our studio will close for the holidays on 13 December.  The last day to place orders for processing this year is the 09 December.  However, you are still welcome to place your order any time and we will process it as soon as we return on 8 Jan 2025. This way you will be ahead of the queue next year. Happy Holidays! ♡♡♡

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December 2024
November 2024
To brighten up your day ...

  Hi everybody :))   Hope you had a good weekend.   Sending you some African Sunshine to brighten up your week ....                                     This is where I walked yesterday – isn't it beautiful? How I love this time of the year when everything is fresh and green and the squirrels and Guineafowl  are...

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September 2011

Di van Niekerk's Newsletter September 2011 Greetings to you from a windy and chilly Cape Town. Soon, the seasons will change - our trees are in blossom, the new leaves are shining and Sunbirds are busy, busy in the garden. I love this time of the year: not too hot, not too cold – perfect hiking weather! Somehow it’s always at this time that I feel the most creative...

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Spring Flowers.....

  Spring flowers…..   Beautiful Spring flowers for you by Valentina Razenkova from Russia   Click on images to enlarge                                                 Happy Spring day!   Enjoy your weekend stitching world  ◕‿◕                              ...

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Roses for you...

  Good Morning, Goeie more, HOWDY, Buon Giorno, Bonjour, Guten Morgen, Selamat Pagi, Buenos Dias, God Morgen, Dobroye utro, Boker tov, kunjhani, Buenos Días, Wilujeng Enjing, Günaydin, Umhlala gahle, Bom Dia, добро утр-dobro utro,  Dobro jutro, G 'day, Góðan daginn, בוקר טוב!!!, Hyvää huomenta, Dzień Dobry, Sugeng Enjing, Cao An, Ohayo Gozaimasu,  Labas Rytas,  Bună Dimineaţa, ДОБЪР ДЕН, sanibonani, sugeng dalu ...   Sending you some beautiful roses by...

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All the way from Massachusetts...

A beauty from Boston, Massachusetts...      Good evening stitching world ♫♥♫♥♫   I hope you are having an enjoyable Tuesday.   I thought I would show you this beautiful piece to make your day!     Embroidered by Remya Suraj from Massachusetts it was entered in the SRE competition. Titled WH06 the curtain, I love the colours that Remya used in this piece and the way she formed the roses...

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Silk ribbon embroidery from Norway

  Good morning everybody – I hope you had a good weekend. Many of you on the East Coast of America did not, and I hope you are all safe and dry. We are thinking of you and hope that the damage from the storm is not too bad. Let us know how you are doing?   Click on the images to enlarge            ...

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A Fairy for you

  GOOD morning, stitching world ♫♬♪♫♬♪♫♬♪     A lovely Fairy for you by Marina Zherdeva from Moscow. Thank you for sharing your wonderful talent with us Marina!                                                  For details please visit her website here The Scilla Fairy / Эльф Пролеска. Рисунок Cicely Mary Barker...

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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...

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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...

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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        

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