The Embroiderer's Story: Sewing Tools Summer Sale

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Sewing Tools Summer Sale

The next Summer Sale for Bleasdales is online now for sewing tools. This is the place if you have budding collections of scissors, needle books, thread winders, etc.

It is also a nice place to look at forms and needlework trinkets if you happen to be one who designs a bit. The auction is July 22nd

Click here for the catalog

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stitchkatJuly 18, 2015 at 3:03 PM
Wow! Marvelous treasures. Serious time sink! Thanks for the link, Tricia.
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My Background and Passions

I've been embroidering or 'building with a needle' since I was four and started teaching embroidery to adults when I was 12. I went to MIT and got a PhD in engineering and helped to start a field called Electronic Textiles. I have always loved history as well and took some crazy-cool course work about using materials science as an archeological tool. That is the basis of my work in embroidery. I see my embroidery teaching as one facet of being a historian of textile materials culture.

Today, I balance three jobs - Thistle Threads, an engineering practice, and am a partner in Tokens and Trifles. It is crazy, but when you have many loves it is just what you do. Much of this is an outgrowth of how I think, which is a bit unusual since I am dyslexic.

In this blog you will notice themes that align with my passions: historic embroidery, teaching engineering to today's youth, and understanding different learning styles. In my off time, I coach a championship robotics team of teens as well as a team of elementary kids. I am really proud of them! Helping to develop E-Textile projects for summer camps to encourage girls in STEM is another activity that makes my plate pretty full.

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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Sewing Tools Summer Sale

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