From the monthly archives:

June 2010

Drawn thread embroidery, cut work, white work… Am I the only one who looks at this kind of stuff and immediately thinks I must learn how to make that before I die? Is that even remotely normal?

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The V&A Textiles Room… OF DOOM

by Beth Dunn on 23 June 2010

When Melissa and I were at the Victoria & Albert Museum in #OMGLondon, we spent a ridiculous amount of time in the textiles study room. Rows upon rows upon rows of carefully filed and displayed lace, embroidery, whitework, woven fabrics, knitted, tatted, crocheted…

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Everything Austen II

by Beth Dunn on 22 June 2010

Stephanie’s Written Word is hosting Everything Austen II, a six-month-long joyride through just about anything Jane Austen-related you can come up with. I’m doing it! You in?

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Sumer is icumen in

by Beth Dunn on 21 June 2010

I’ve been looking for a long time for the poem Sumer is Icumen in, and I finally found it again the Melvyn Bragg’s book The Adventure of English. I forgotten the part about the stag farting.

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Scratching the Surface

by Beth Dunn on 19 June 2010

We got all kitted up, washed our faces, and brushed our I-mostly-work-from-home hair last night to attend the opening of Melissa Averinos’ solo art exhibit at the Centerville Historical Museum.

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