Benefitting The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon, this beautiful Elizabethan embroidery has been produced in conjunction with guest designer Alison Cole and will soon be available as our first non-crewel work embroidery kit!

Zinaida Kazban is a bright young star in a new generation of hand embroiderers emerging from the Royal School of Needlework's Future Tutors Programme. She is also our 2018 "New Talent" selected by the School to be sponsored by Lady Anne's Needlework Retreats in her graduating year and as she makes her first steps into the wide world of professional hand embroidery. 

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We are delighted to introduce Zinaida Kazban of the Royal School of Needlework as a Lady Anne's Needlework tutor. Zina is our 2018 New Talent!

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Phillipa's visit to the V&A's Clothworkers Museum in London

I was so excited to see legendary examples of crewel work from the past 400 years that I literally could not sleep the night before my recent trip to the V&A repository. At 3.00am I looked out of my bedroom window and in the incredibly bright full moon witnessed Mikey our cat defending the rockery from a spring toad. I left the next morning for London in full confidence that he would defend the house in the same manner while I was away.

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Thank you to Anne Parsons for sharing her finished Elizabethan Oakapple Tree. Anne has done a fabulous job on this tricky design, particularly on the tree truck, which she has expertly filled with dense rows of stem stitch.

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I've still got so much to do on this cushion! The 19th May is looming and I haven't finished one side yet! Luckily I have Laura on my back asking me for catch-up videos every second minute so here are all of them so far. How are you all doing?

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Well done to Catherine Pommett for winning FIRST PRIZE and BEST IN SHOW at the Florida State Fair for her finished Mellerstain Firescreen!

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Jenny Adin-Christie is a world-renowned professional hand-embroider and tutor whom we are privileged to include in our billing of top-class Lady Anne’s Needlework Retreat tutors.

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Nicola Jarvis is widely known in the global stitching community for her beautiful embroidery kits featuring ornate birds, animals and flowers. You might know her best however for her iconic bird designs, which she decorates in an incredible variety of techniques and colours.

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We are so excited to welcome 14 fabulous ladies back again to the Ryebeck Hotel on the edge of Lake Windermere in The Lake District for our 3rd Spring Residential Needlework Retreat. We have exclusive use of the hotel all week so we have no distractions from our classes and no strangers hurrying us down the hallway to breakfast! It snowed yesterday so it couldn't be cosier as we sit and stitch.

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