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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....

African Sunshine...

GOOD morning, stitching world ♫♬♪♫♬♪♫♬♪ It’s nearly weekend :))) Thought I would send you some African Sunshine, to brighten up your day.... These spectacular photographs, taken of a baby Gorilla in Rwanda... and a baby chimpanzee will surely melt your heart ♥ Enjoy your weekend and thank you Bruce for your wonderful photography. Love Di © Bruce van...

Back in Cape Town ....

*`•.¸(¯`•♥•´¯) ☆ º ` `•.¸.•´ ╭♥╯ Hello from Cape Town! I hope you are well and happy… I am back from Koala Conventions in Brisbane, and what an impressive convention it was. So well organised – everything worked like clockwork. Meeting up with friendly embroiderers and talented teachers was good for my soul and I really enjoyed teaching ribbon...

From Koala....

From Brisbane, Australia Good evening everybody, hope you are having a good day :) It’s been busy, busy, busy….. and after the fifth workshop at the wonderful Koala Conventions, I have finally found some time to send you a photograph of the fabulous Koala shop. Click on images to enlarge I wish...

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