Today, thanks to Country Bumpkin, I’m giving away two 2013 William Morris Appliqué calendars. For those of you who like quilts, who like Things-Morris, who are into textiles – you’ll love this calendar decorated with beautiful pictures from the William Morris in Appliqué collection from Michele Hill’s William Morris in Appliqué books. It’s the perfect calendar to hang in your sewing area, or anywhere else for that matter!
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The calendar is large and colorful. It’s the kind of calendar that hangs from a hole, so that the picture is above the monthly grid.
Every year, I use a hanging calendar like this to write appointments on it, check dates, and keep a clear, easy-to-find log of upcoming events, birthdays, and the like within reach. I can’t imagine living without a calendar of some sort, and it’s always a kind of ritual, finding just the right calendar to see me through the upcoming year.
The William Morris Calendar for 2013 definitely fulfills all the requirements that I look for in a calendar. I like a calendar that’s appealing to the eye, colorful, that induces daydreams, inspires me, or makes me laugh. There has to be something about the yearly calendar that speaks to me – after all, I have to live with it for 12 months!
Of course, the quilts and finished projects in this calendar are more than just appealing! I want them all! I want them hanging on my walls, covering my beds, folded on the sofa….
… but since it isn’t likely that this particular wish will ever come true, I will revel, instead, in the gorgeous photography that graces this calendar!
And there’s enough space on each monthly grid to make appointment notes, to mark birthdays and special events, and so forth.
The William Morris Appliqué calendar will make a perfect gift for yourself, for your sewing or quilting friends, for you needlework buddy or fellow guild members! And today, you have the opportunity to win one of two that I’m giving away.
Give Away Guidelines
To enter today’s give-away, please follow these guidelines:
1. Leave a comment below on today’s article (the one you’re reading right now). Please do not reply via e-mail or leave your comment on another article!
2. In your comment, answer the following question:
If you could have any needlework technique featured over 12 months in a calendar, what would that technique be?
3. In your comment (either on the “name” line or within the comment box), please leave a recognizable name. If you’re name happens to be Mary, for example, please make it different from other Marys out there somehow. For example, Mary in Tuscaloosa…. Mary Mary Quite Contrary…. you get the idea!
4. The give-away ends Monday, October 22, at 5:00 am CDT (Kansas, USA). Check back on Monday to see if you’ve won. I’ll announce two winners Monday morning, and they will need to contact me with their mailing address.
So, go to it! Leave a comment below, and join in the fun!
If you’re interested in pre-ordering a William Morris calendar in time for holiday gift-giving, you can do so on the Country Bumpkin website. They are taking pre-orders for delivery in November, just in time for the holidays!
I would love to have a calender on embrodiery.
Hi Mary,
You never cease to amaze me with your features.
This calendar is gorgeous – and inspiring.
Thank you for introducing it to all of us. Also, thank you for the chance to win one. If I could have one theme for a calendar I would like to see machine embroidery combined with hand embroidery embellishments with beautiful threads and gorgeous colors. Maybe each month could have the colors associated with that month. What a feast that would be!!
I would love to see you feature some instructions in future posts about hand applique – some of your secret tips and pointers. The William Morris calendar reminded me of an unfinished quilted wall hanging that has some detailed hand applique. Maybe your instruction could help me bring it out and finish it!
My daughter and I visited the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and admired William Morris’ work in various forms. Such classic designs!
I would love to have hand embroidery featured! Doing beautiful things with simple stitches. Love applique and embroidery! I haven’t seen this calendar..looks wonderful!
HMM despite all the different techniques out there still my favourite is the simplicity of cross stitch
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Wow, what a beautiful piece of eye candy! I love Morris prints and this would be a way to enjoy them every day!
Terry in PA
If I could have any calendar of any needlework technique hanging on my wall, what I would love to look at everyday would be my aunt’s appliqué quilts she’s made over her lifetime. She has such talent and I have only gotten to see a few of her quilts. So I am not sure if this was what you wanted as a response exactly, but that is what I would choose if I could. Too bad she didn’t photograph her many quilts as she made them. Who knows where they ended up through the years.
I would love a calendar filled with hardanger designs. Thanks for the chance to win this beautiful calandar!
Hello Mary! I am so excited and hope I get one of those lovely calendars, it would be perfect for my new sewing room!!
I would love to have a calendar featuring the needlework in a more modern crazy quilting. I think the pictures would be amazing and it would show so many fun aspects of stitching. It would be neat to see examples in different types of thread as well. Oh the possibilities!!!
Thanks so much!
Kallie
I would like all handembroidery. But the most I like cross stitching. Because that will be allways the most perfect stitchery.
Having only recently discovered you and your wonderful site, I eagerly await my daily mail to delight in your inspirational ramblings and beautifuly descriptive text and photographs.
The calandar looks amazing, I often stand and admire the William Morris exhibits in the museum. Be great to have a small section on my wall !!
I really really enjoy your emails. I just discovered you two weeks ago so am not as knowledgeable as most might be. I am hoping to learn from you how best to determine WHAT stitch makes the most sense when you are designing an embroidery. I tend to use the same ones over and over and never make a “knowledgeable” decision — just tend to redo. I have already learned a new way to do a stitch from you and avidly look forward to your emails. Keep up the good work.
PS — I absolutely love William. Have 2 books on him.
what a wonderful website you have created.
I would love to see stumpwork featured as I am currently learning this amazing style.
Best wishes Sue from Birmingham UK
If I had to pick just one technique for a whole year of Calendar then I guess
It would be counted thread work -but WAIT- Wouldn’t it be a dream to have
A calendar where each month gave you a small project in a different technique
To try, so by years end you had tried 12 different technijques? For me that would be a year of stitching heaven, since I love them all. I am a bit fan of
William Morris and have followed his “If it isn’t lovely or useful” quote in how
I decorate my home. Thank you for this post.
I would love to see a calendar featuring Russian pearl embroidery. I love it but can’t find any books. I have read your articles and much enjoyed them. I have also read the article in Classic Inspirations on pearl embroidery. I wish I could do a course on it, as I love pearls and wear pearls every day.
The technique I would like to see in a calendar would be the simple Chain Stitch (with its variations added in here and there). Each month would have a scene for that month. I could go on about it but that’s it. Thanks, Paula Magnani-Smith.
I believe a calendar showng embroidered stitches embellishing and supporting quilted projects would be tantalizing – just enough inspiration – to take my imagination and skill building thru each of the seasons. Looking at this calendar – it is surprising how just the right embellishment polishes up the whole piece and adds depth and richness.
Actually it makes me dream of my own projects.
Would love a calendar – it has been quite a few years since I have found just the right calendar.
Thank you for the opportunity. Charlotte
Morris prints are fantastic. One of my favourite sources for inspiration. If I could choose, I’d have Elizabethan Embroidery for a calendar.
I would love a calendar that featured contemporary needlework design….the mixing of various techniques in a unexpected way.
What else; embroidery of course! I’m not even particular, it could be a free form or counted. Perhaps a spot motif sampler with directions for 12 fun stitches. And then make it a bakers dozen; maybe an alphabet. I’ve seen a lot of calendars over the years and can remember lots of quilt ones but only one embroidery calendar.
I love the lushness of Wm Morris and have been thinking it’s time to make an applique quilt. Or maybe it’s just time to think about making an applique quilt.
If I could have any needlework technique featured over 12 months in a calendar,that technique would be applique!
I have been fascinated by all the embroidery work you have featured in your newsletter so I think a year of different stitches would be fabulous!!! It could be a reminder to practice that particular stitch all month—then I could probably master it.
I would like to see Jacobean embroidery featured in a calendar. Thanks Mary for giving us the opportunity to own such a nice calendar. I love what little you have shown us and hope I win.
One technique for a calendar? I can think of several that would make great calendars — Or Nue; blackwork; Laid & Couched Work; Void (“Assissi”). For any of them my “ideal” calendar would start with an early example in January and kind of work through chronologically…
I would go for a calendar that featured pieces of Elizabethan embroidery — it is so inspiring and wonderful and intricate. One could easily look at it for the entire year. Although I am a big fan of William Morris and am currently working on a needlepoint version of his Owl tapestry.
Thanks again Mary, you’re the best, I’ve learned a super lot from you,
Shelia in Oklahoma
I would love to see smocking and heirloom sewing featured in a calendar!!
I would like to have a calendar of Brazilian Embroidery. It is three dimentional embroidery with Z twist threads of colorful rayon threads. Not many people know about Brazilian embroidery and when people see it they are amazed at the beauty. It looks complicated to do but it really it is not. It is a matter of knowing how to do the stitches and they are easy to learn. A calendar would let people see the beauty and become aware of just what this embroidery looks like.
hi what a lovely calendar! Thanks for the chance to win it. I’d love to see goldwork or crewel in such a calendar.
I would like to see needle/thread painting techniques all year long. I am a novice, so I have everything to learn. But the needle painting is my favorite. So I guess that would be long and short stitch, satin stitch and any choice of outline.
The calendar looks beautiful. I would love to see the pictures each month.
Raised Embroidery! Can’t get enough of that! Thanks for the drawing Mary…and Country Bumpkin!
Kathy of Shawkl.com
Dear Mary, I would go for that beautiful goldwork. When I read your newsletter about the old goldwork I was thinking about who made it and when, were they rich or were they maids who had to do this ? All those questions just popped up so I’ll go for the goldwork and dream away
I think stumpwork would be fascinating.
so many things to learn and so much imagination
to be used.
I would love to have a calendar of antique crazy quilts!
Well I would like to see the best of two worlds embroidered quilts. I love William Morris designs. Beth Russell in the UK does some amazing William Morris designs for needle point.
I would love to see a calendar dedicated to crazy quilting. The antique crazy quilts I’ve seen are so amazing in the amount and variety of embroidery that has been added as embellishment. Each quilt is like an encyclopedia of stitches and colors.
Hi Mary, I’m glad to be back on your website and hand stitching again. Morris was a master of design. I love his patterns and the fabrics are beautiful.
Jeannette in PA
I would like to see a crazy quilt calendar. Your ideas are so inspiring…now to carve out the time from my other quilting, needlepointing and cross stitching projects!!!
Seeing this calendar inspires me to hunt for a quilt design using my Morris prints in my stash.
I love applique and embroidery combinations. I like to sit at night while I’m relaxing doing hand work. This is a lovely calender too
Oh, I love all things “William Morris”!! 12 months of a particular technique?? I think I would enjoy goldwork — as there are SO many ways that this can be done. Or maybe stumpwork? From “historic” to contemporary. Or sumptuous,juicy whitework with padded satins stitches and various lacy filling stitches in pulled or drawn thread work. Any one would do!!
Mary, how to pick JUST one! When the love of stitching runs along many different styles…the choices, the choices. Okay, probably drawn thread/white work. That includes many of my loves all rolled into one.
I think a variety of embroidery types would be interesting… something different every month! But if you force me to choose just one I’d pick silk ribbon embroidery.
G’day Mary,
Cloth dolls, especially the artist’s type. The disciplines used are widely varied, and wildly varied! They can be Plain Janes and very effectively finished, even to the love knot on her pinny and secret love letter in the pocket. Or Madam Hoohaah kickin’ up her purple heels, and lavish in embellishments and fun. Gracious Gertrude has a twinkle in her eye and gorgeous embroidery on her gown, albeit, with hints of, umm…desires tucked in here and there!
I suppose my calendar would be covering a number of techniques but there you have it.
And I want William Morris’ too. Love it. One of my doll’s would need to have a quilted skirt or wrap, set off by tiny embroidered somethings and beaded fringes.
Thank you Country Bumpkin and Mary for this fun giveaway. It’s a really good question Mary.
Cheers, Kath from Oz
I can’t choose just one needlework technique to be featured all year in a calendar. If each month featured hand needlework with beautiful fibers and fabrics, I’d be loving it.
Thanks for the opportunity to win this beautiful calendar!
Oh this is perfect!
I just returned from a week in London and went to the William Morris Museum – I would LOVE to win this calender as I’m a quilter as well as an embroiderer!
My favorite technique would be crewel – I brought back several kits from Philippa Turnbull’s booth at the Knitting & Stitching show at Alexandra Palace – love it!
As an artist, an embroiderer and an applique quilter, I have always found William Morris a constant inspiration. His work delights my eye as well as my heart. Michele Hill has truly captured the look and spirit of his work in her applique. As you say, a calendar of her work month to month is something delightful for the studio wall for an entire year. and after the year is up, something this beautiful gets filed away as a mini art book to inspire for further years to come. Thanks so very much for introducing this wonderful quilt artist.
I would like to see a calendar of hardanger but the Morris calendar is lovely.
Good morning,
I am a life-long quilter venturing now into the realms embroidery. I would love a calendar featuring new twists on traditional quilts. Quilts have been a part of all our heritages based in need yet personalised in one of the few ways woman could express their artistic drives. (Think of the quilters of Gees Bend) Today these traditions are being kept alive by fibre artists who stretch us with their imagination. Their use of colour, fabrics and embellishments would inspire all handworkers – and at the end of the year imagine all those pages framed! DELICIOUS don’t you think?
A calendar of Stumpwork embroidery images would be interesting. The 3 dimensional look to the work would lend itself to lots of interesting photography and setup options.
Also rug hooking…lots of beautiful William Morris designs in rug hooking.
I love, love, love William Morris!
I cannot chose just one…I would love to have the Morris calendar because it speaks to me on both the techniques I would love featured. I am torn between applique and hand embroidery. I can see how they work together and the inspiration from one to the other…Areas like flowers could be appliqued and details added with embroidery like a bee or ladybug or the same design might be all embroidery with satin stitch or other stitch to fill in the larger area.
William Morris — one of my favorites. What a fabulous give away!
I enjoy your crewelwork and various analysis of stitches. I don’t do much of this type of embroidery, thus I have gained much knowledge. Thank you.
I would love a William Morris calendar. Thank you for the chance at one. If I had a choice for calendar photos I would pick stumpwork. It’s a technique I have been exploring lately and I would enjoy the inspiration.
After a weekend with Tricia the technique du jour sould be stumpwork, both front and back
of each piece.
I would ADORE having a calendar of pulled and drawn needlework. The stunning variety that can be achieved simply by pulling tight using a relatively small selection of stitches is simply jaw-droppingly inspirational to me.
But for now, my admiration for all things William Morris approaches reverence!
Thanks,
Anya
I think a calendar of crewelwork designs would be wonderful to look at and provide lots of inspiration.
This calendar is beautiful! I seldom see anything on needlework of any kind on a calendar. I would love to see some on vintage lace/linens with beading. If I have a calendar that is particularly appealing, I use it after the year is over: i.e. making envelopes, framing, greeting cards, holiday ornaments and any number of things. Thanks!
I enjoy your articles every day. Please keep it up. I would like to see an article on “stump work” along with a little history.
i really like william morris so a calendar based on his themes is already going to be a fav for me. i also think jacobean work would make a good calendar cos it’s cheerful.
What a beautiful calendar. I could definately look at it for 12 months. If I could choose a form of needlework for a calendar, it would be drawn thread work and hemstitching. I have seen examples on vintage handkerchiefs that look just like lace.
I’ve been a William Morris fan/groupie for years and years!!! I just love his designs. The more of his designs I see, the more I Love them. I doubt he ever thought he’d have groupies!!! lol
A calender devoted to one technique – oh my! That’s pretty hard to decide, but I think I have to say embroidery, in all it’s forms. Especially embroidery done in rich colors, and lots of swirlies. I’m a sucker for anything swirly! Crossing my fingers that I win!
Karen Gass
Wow! William Morris! Have it on some walls now. For another calendar idea how about one of contemporary Stumpwork- Surface Embroidery, perhaps including were they might be seen, primary fabrics and fibers. That would be eye-candy for me. Thanks
If I could have any needlework technique on a 12 month calendar, it would have to be zardozi, Im obsessed with it right now and am experimenting with it. It might be a bit too heavy for a calendar but in my magical world of wendy land it would work haha… Thanks Mary!!!!!
I would love to see his work daily. His designs are beautiful and timeless.
Hi Mary,
What a beautiful calendar…I just love it! A year full of Hardanger embroidery would be my idea of a neat calendar…and there are lots of items which could be included. Thanks again for a great giveaway.
Sheila from CA
I love William Morris, such a distinctive style. For a calender, I’d love crewel work
An entire calendar in Madeira applique would be delightful! There are so many possibilities from sweet baby gifts to lovely home furnishings.
Oooooooo, please, please, pleeeeeeze? I am still working on my wall quilt, and am using embroidery (both hand and machine) and have been thinking already about my next wall quilt. On my next one, I’d like to mix applique and embroidery. This looks so inspiring!
Thanks for all you show us!
I’d love to see have a calendar featuring goldwork.
I’d like to be entered into the drawing for the Richard Morris Applique calendar, please. I love to applique, I back-baste and needleturn in all of my spare moments. I’d love a calendar of applique that fills a whole year of months full of pictures and colorful eye-candy, with a Morris theme. That would be a great inspiration to appreciate and stare wistfully at while keeping track of important dates, lest they slip by.
This is beautiful. I would love to see a calendar that pictures the process of tatting.
Thanks for asking!
This calendar is so gorgeous and inspirational.
I think just a beautiful picture for every month of the year with a different technique highlighted for every month would be fantastic.
Thanks for the chance to win…..
Like you, I place high value on my calendars! This one looks beautiful.
I would love to have a calendar with a different embroidery technique each month, but your question asks that we choose one, so I think I would love to have a calendar featuring blackwork every month. It’s one of my favorites and I don’t think I’ve ever seen it featured in a calendar.
What a lovely giveaway. Thx for the opportunity to have Wm Morris on the wall for 365 days. I think for 12 months, probably needle lace (with white work a close second.) Depending on the motif, thread size, and needle lace stitches used – there are endless possibilities
What a beautiful calendar! I would love to learn more about combining embroidery and quilting!
Without doubt: drawn thread embroidery. The simplicity of white on white and the intricacies of the weaving … and Hardanger and cutwork. Oh, yes, I’d love a calendar featuring that! Thank you, Mary
Thank you for this giveaway.
This calender looks wonderful.
I would like to see a calendar with a
different tecnique for each month (cross stich, hardanger, applique,…)
Teresa Carvalho
In answer to your question, if I could have any needlework technique put into a quilting calendar,I would choose applique both rustic and traditional. I should also like to see some hand embroidery added to these “artful” craft. Love to mix and match so to speak. Have a great day
Love the photos of course and with 4 grandchildren and an elderly mom to care for, the large boxes are a must to keep track of my wild and crazy life. If I could have a calendar made, I would love to see one with photos and information about advanced embroidery and cross stitch stitching. Something beautiful to see and challenging to try.
Heééééé…..l graag ontvang ik de kalender. Dat is mijn grote wens,om daarvan kennis te nemen en inspiraie op te doen.
Dank u wel Groeten van Riet.
I would like to see a calendar that features embrodiery techniques from around the world especially those of Europe and Scandinavia that I don’t get to see in my neck of the woods. Love your blog. It is an inspiration to me every time I read it!!
Lori,in the Sunny South
Another winner from Country Bumpkin! The William Morris Calendar looks to be colorful, crisp, and warm. If I could design a calendar for 12 months, I would love to see “smalls”. That is my passion, I cross stitch or needlepoint small items and display them in my china cabinet. I follow some blogs that truly inspire me and have made many gifts for my stitching friends. I would love to have this calendar hanging in my office, so that when the day gets tough, I can look up and smile.
I love wool applique work and would love to have it featured.
The needlework technique I would love to see featured in a calendar would be quilting. The mix of fabrics, colors and stitch patterns is comforting to my eye. I dream of being able to actually complete one of these quilts some day.
Embroidery, both modern and ancient. I’d love a calendar like that.
In answer to the question of what I wish to see more of, it would be more needleweaving embedded in an embroidery design, similar to what has been posted lately on Mary Corbet’s Needle ‘n Thread website.
I am also a fan of a simple cross stitch. I would to see more of that.
Mary thank you for allowing us to win this beautiful calendar.It is perfect.
William Morris has created wonderful drawings. Photographed quilts are superb. This is just to dream every month of the year. I know I can never embroider all these poetic quilts.
What a gorgeous calendar! But why choose only one technique? I could find space to hang several calendars if they were as interesting and attractive as this one. One would be counted cross stitch, maybe a surface embroidery, quilting, of course, hardanger, crazy quilts–it’s just to hard to choose. but cross stitch and quilts for sure!
Wow! I was blown away. The inspiration of these designs makes me want to start them tomorrow. Yes, I will be thrilled to receive a copy of this very interesting book. Thanks for the contest
Traditional needlework techniqies have my heart & soul. I am drawn to samplers, tapestries, lace work, ethnnic embroidery, drawn-thread work like Hardanger, crazy quilts, embroidery on old quilts, curtains, & clothing. Appreciating history also means appreciating how beautiful, long-lasting works were created with very little tools & techniques we have for use today. William Morris also appreciated traditional colors and techniques, while incorporating those concepts into his contemporary designs.
I think my favorite techniques are the redwork or blackwork or even an entire calendar of pieces of historial embroidery on tapestries and quilts.
Thank you for always teaching and exploring this amazing art.
Tabitha in Albuquerque
Mary, what a wonderful calendar! My 2012 calendar featured crazy quilts by Pat Winter and I love it (it’s a keeper even after the year is over, just for the inspiration it brings). So I suppose that’s my answer regarding what stitches I’d like to see on a calendar. The William Morris designs run a close second! I love reading your blog every day. Thank you for doing it.
Grovenore, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada
I guess I would choose crewel embroidery. Lots of other techniques would be nice too.
I would love to see Hardanger featured. It is one needlework art I’ve always wanted to do. I do love quilting too so would love to have a William Morris calendar.
What a beautiful calendar. I love the pictures and it will look so nice on my cube wall. Of course, then I can take it home and make all the quilts. It’s a double blessing.
Mary, what a lovely give away. I enjoy stitching antique sampler reproductions. It would be lovely to have a calendar that showed representive antique samplers from various parts of the world. This would be proudly displayed in my home. Thanks for a chance to win the William Morris calendar.
Ruth on the First Coast
For once I am actually NOT entering one of your spectacular give-aways! Why? Because I own the William Morris applique quilt books, and I have promised myself that one day I will make at least one block from one of these remarkably beautiful books. The calendar would look stunning on my wall, but I want someone else to have that opportunity – preferably someone who is learning about William Morris for the first time. But maybe I’ll buy one for myself . . . hmmmm!!!
Wat zou ik graag deze kalender willen winnen, hij is echt te gek.
Een borduurkalender van William Morris is altijd mooi om te hebben.
Vriendelijke groet,
Maria
I’d pick different kinds of embroidery for every month, because how could I choose just one? I’ve been a quilter for a long time, though, and would love one of these calendars. The very idea of appliqueing William Morris designs blows me away!
I personally would like a different technique featured every month. I love all kinds of needlework.
My calendar, gold work I think. The difficulty would be in choosing between traditional and modern, since I find both facinating. I do love quilts though.
Dear Mary, I love all your articles and have loved embroidery since I was very young. I am now learning applique and have admired William Morris fabrics. All that to say I would love a calendar with applique but also would love one on embroidery. Maybe next year they will do the opposite of this year. Thank you for all the lessons I have learned from your articles. With gratitude from Susan in Texas
Oh my…Marymentor:
That’s a hard one. I love “anything” with a pronounced texture so I’m always leaning toward crewel and stumpwork, while I really love the Hungarian pieces you’ve been showcasing..guess it’s my Eastern European blood. But combining texture with delicacy and grace, I always must default to my favorite….crewel ! Oh I did buy that Morris “Strawberry Thieves” piece. Can’t wait to get my hands on it. Holiday Hugs.. Judy in Pittsburgh
Thanks for another great give-away opportunity Mary! My favorite needlework technique is Crazy Patch because there are no rules & anything, including the kitchen sink, may be incorporated. My 2001 copy of Piecemakers Times & Seasons Calendar & Quilt Book is nearly threadbare, but remains an inspiration. In that calendar, all the instructions for creating the patches & blocks were included. As to the William Morris applique calendar, it would make a nice companion for my copy of “Arts & Crafts Needlepoint”, a book given to me by a friend. Such elegant designs, curvy motifs & rich colors! BTW–personalized custom calendars are so readily available, we could each own the Embroidery Calendar of Our Dreams. Big-box office supply stores & online services create them with customer-submitted photos. Hmmmm, maybe an EGA chapter project??
This calendar makes me want to take up quilting for a hobby.
I would like to see a calendar dedicated to Hardanger needlework. Thanks for all your hard work to make thus site awesome. Colleen
Love your emails and your embroidery! Thanks for the opportunity to win such a lovely calendar.
I would like a calendar with embroidery patterns and samples.
Diana in Sioux Falls
Embroidery! I adore it! Especially Arts and Crafts Movement, and 18th century English, Continental and American.
And speaking of William Morris, he really rejuvenated the medium in the 19th , drawing on Persian, Oriental, medieval and renaissance motifs to produce his iconic needlework as well as textiles and wallpaper.
It’s amazing, isn’t it, how he continues to influence needleworkers and other artists over a hundred years later!
-Susan in the Berkshires
I love redwork or any embroidery of one color.
Hi Mary,
A beautiful quilt calender would be far superior to the one the local bank gives out. Thank you for this opportunity. I would love to see a calendar dedicated to interestingly stitched hand painted canvases.
Randi at TWIS
I would have to choose canvas work. I especially enjoy the geometrical designs, that harken back to knot garden designs
A calender of embroidery is a lovely idea. 2013 is the 40th anniversary of the Embroidery Association of Canada. They have several projects available as Fundraisers. One of them is a Calender. The calender sells for $25.00 Canadian and comes with a CD of the patterns for each of the 12 designs which are various embroidery techniques. I am currently working on “Frost” and plan to do most of the projects. I think a small project each month in a different technique is a way to encourage others to try something different. I certainly will buy another calender like this.
Even tho I’m crazy about cross-stitch, I would probably prefer crewel embroidery for a calendar. I love the different stitches, the different textures one can make, and just how lovely it all looks when finished.
I would have to say Crazy Qiulting. I would love to really linger over that inspiration the whole month through.
Thanks for another wonderful chance at winning!
Beautifful calendars! If I could choose a technque to be displayed over twelve months I would choose surface embroidery, preferably done with cotton floss or perle cotton.
Applique, applique, applique! I love William Morris and am always attracted to fabrics based on his designs. Thanks for the chance to win this calendar and for informing your readers of its availablity.
hello mary,
as an ambroiderer and a quilter I find your features very inspiring and helpful. thank you for sharing you vast knowledge with us.
I would like to have a calender with traditional Baltimore album quilt patterns.
my second choise would be crewel embroidery.
As an avid quilter, I been following the revival of William Morris…from wallpapers to textiles…what a journey! Of course…quilt books!!!!
Recently, I have been adding embroidery to my quilts …so this blog is on my daily reading list! The “How too” Videos are my bible of stitches!!!!
Thanks for sharing the new calendar!!!
The 22nd is my Birthday…great present!
To be honest it would be difficult for me to select one specific needle work I love all needle work hoping to improve my skills as time passes. Judy
Hi Mary! I would like to see a calendar of crewel work, especially antique crewel. I love the flower and animal combos that are often featured in crewel.
this is very gorgeous!
and I join the fun!
well I would like a calendar with several simply but gorgeous techniques and also with instructions ;
thanks ,with best regards!
Yum! What gorgeous colors, too! I think needle-painting would be fascinating to see as well as varieties of folk stitching. I learn so much from this blog-the Hungarian stitching post the other day was really neat. Just a few stitches, but oh! the outcome is so beautiful.
If there were one needlework technique that I had to restrict myself to for a year, it would probably be crazyquilting – just because so many needlework techniques are used….embroidery, needlelace, applique….that would keep me inspired! And the William Morris needlework that Michele Hill produces is so amazing! Please pick me!
I’m a real William Morris fan. That’s a calendar I’d love to have. I love crazy quilting too, and would like to see a calendar with crazy quilted blocks. Or maybe thread painting. Or gold work. Or crewel work. Or. . . Hard to pick a favorite.
Thank you (& Country Bumpkin) for being so generous. What a lovely calendar. I would love to find a calendar with stumpwork or even flat surface or goldwork embroidery. I’ve never seen calendars with those techniques spotlighted. Thank you again for sharing your talents. I look forward to the daily newsletters.
Love the pictures. Wish it was mine.
Quilts are always so lovely to look at.
I love anything to do with embroidery it makes me happy
My favourite needlework technique is invisible applique – and although some people wonder ‘why go to all that effort when no one can see it to appreciate the work that was involved… ‘ … “I” will know what stitches are hidden! William Morris designs are truly timeless. I would love to win this beautiful calendar full of wonderful and inspiring applique ideas!
If you are asking what other technique would be great over a 12 month calendar – I might suggest Mountmellick Embroidery… !
I would love to see chicken scratch embroidery displayed over a 12 month calendar!
Army Wife Angela
Thanks so much for sharing so many different things related to a love of needlework. Like you, I find that this calendar seems to cover my desires of color, interest and dreaminess. I find beautiful needlework very inspiring creatively. To be surrounded by beauty is a worthy goal as Mr. Morris said himself. And the details of life should be beautiful as well. Why not?
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris
I would be interested in seeing stump work featured in a calendar, because it looks so complicated and fascinating. I would love to learn how to elevate my needlework skills.
Thanks again for your posts full of actual information as opposed to the infinity of blogs and sites just full of pretty pictures and fluff.
The technique I would choose is Jacobean crewl work. I like doing it myself but also think there are such lovely colours and designs.
Hi Mary,
If I had a calendar to publish I would choose surface embroidery. Most likely Jacobian designs, I am also a fan of the William Morris (my Uncle’s name) designs as they seem similar to me; large flowers, shapes and beautiful colours.
Love your site,Cynthia
Aargh!!! I forgot to follow the guidelines and say what kind of needlework I’d like to see featured, sorry!
I love stumpwork, and would love to see contemporary stumpwork featuring natural, realistic things. Thanks again!
Mary,
You never cease to amaze me with your creativity!
The technique I would love to see would be crazy quilt blocks. The stitches can be so creative with such an assortment of threads, yarns, ribbons. The possibilities are endless and oh so beautiful!
The needlework that I would put into a calendar would have include different types because I love doing different things. I would include at leasst one of each of the following: goldwork, blackwork, thread painting,crosstitch,hardanger,crewel,stumpwork,schwaln embroidery, and bead embroidery. It’s just exciting to create using different methods and different threads. Awwww the threads.
I would relish a calendar, all 12 months of “Crazy Quilting” finished products and hints and instructions on how to do some of the more complicated stitches used. Thanks so much. Krin
Only ONE technique? Help me. How about a different technique each month? Black work Embroidery, Crochet, Stump work, Knitting, Quilt Piecing, Smocking, Tatting, Applique Quilting, Gold Embroidery, Bobbin Lace, Spinning, Ecclesiastical Embroidery.
Variety is the spice of life.
Oh what a great give away!
I would like to have every month feature a different style of needlework. My favorite is still cross stitch but I like to see other embroidery added to cross stitch projects. Gives me a challenge and expands my stitching.
Mary,
I love your site it is my constant source for embroidery ideas, explanations and inspirations. It was very difficult for me to pick a single technique for a calender. But I would have to choose Or Nue. The delicate gold field being shaded by silk thread to create a beautiful, glittering tapestry.
It will be a long time before I even consider attempting Or Nue. But I can appreciate the work, skill and the spectacular results.
But Mary, couldn’t you have a calender? I mean this quite seriously, a calender with highlights of certain stitches, projects. A calender would be great that focused on various past projects until you got things caught up –well more or less– possibly adding guests as well. Its an idea and I would love BOTH calenders. I’ve bought your booklets and enjoy them. I also would pay for both calenders.
Sincerely Louise Weekly
This calendar looks beautiful. I actually love hand applique. I have been trying to perfect my techniques and just finished a quilt with hand appliqued flowers. This calendar would be a great inspiration to complete more and would love to look at the quilts each month. Thanks for all your instructional embroidery information.
i absolutly love William Morris calendars. I like the cross stitch the best. Would love to see swome crosstitch on some quilts. Brenda in Oklahoma
What a wonderful calendar. I have the perfect person I could gift that to! I would love to see darning techniques featured or stump work. I’m wanting to do them in the future but have feared the challenge. Thank you.
Patti
I would love to have a calendar with a variety of emboidery techniques. A William Morris one would be lovely as I love that style and I love quilts and applique.
I would choose a calendar with a different drawn thread technique each month. Jane Briscoe
Easy answer for me. I would like a colorful calendar of any type of surface embroidery.
Elaine in New Mexico
This calendar is wonderful. If I had a choice of a topic for a calendar it would be Hardanger and Cutwork stitches and designs.
Techiya from Ontario
I’d love to have a calendar with photos of ecclesiastical embroidery with a larger photo of the piece and smaller pictures of details around the edges.
I’d love to see applique work and embroidery accents featured in a calendar. This calendar looks absolutely beautiful and would look lovely on my sewing room wall.
Mary,
I like you search each year for the right calendar to inspire me and to keep track of my appointments. I also use it to track my quilting and embroidery goals. I love this calendar because I am a quilter who has recently fallen in love with appliqué. As to what kind of needlework I would like to seein a calendar, it would be 12 months of goldwork . You introduced me to this beautiful art and I just can’t get enough of it. Thanks for your daily inspiration.
Connie
Thanks for the opportunity to win this gorgeous calendar. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a calendar featuring beautiful lace making techniques from around the world? I would love to see picures of laces and a little about the technique’s country of origin, history, etc.
Many thanks for sharing the link for my very favorite applique style.
Absolutely love your daily newsletter! I so appriciate your instructions on the different stitches as they are easy to follow.
I am the “old fashion” type that appreciates the unique talent of hand work. From my German roots of hand embroidery for the royalty, to today, our family has contimued to keep this art alive. Seeing others work, albeit per calendar, would be a special thrill.
Thank you for this opportunity to try for one of these free calendars.
I am an adamant admirer of William Morris designs and have made one of the quilts in the first book, and would like to make many more. ( life just isn’t, long enough). My passion is making hand appliqued quilts embellished with hand embroidery. This then would be my delight to have a years worth of embroidery designs that would coordinate with and decorate and enhance appliqued flowers and leaves and fruit and trees and birds,and other motifs.
If I could have any technique it would be embroidery. Trish Burr comes to mind as do all the beautiful things in Inspirations Magazine. I am drooling thinking about it.
Carol, Windsor, CA
Thank you for the chance to win one of these wonderful calenders! I would thoroughly enjoy a calender featuring Brazilian Embroidery.
The calendar is beautiful I would love to have it. I would like to see silk ribbon embroidery in a calendar it is beautiful and I would like to see different aspects of this type shown…
I would love to see and learn more about stumpwork, to me, it makes embroidery “come alive “. Oh, but then applique designs in calendar form –so many options! Thank you Mary for your newsletter it’s become an important part of my day.
What a beautiful calendar. I don’t know which needlework tech. I’d like to see featured. I”m a beginner so anything would be great. : )
Without a doubt, ecclesiastical embroidery. I can never get enough. If it were a calendar of the ecclesiastical embroidery of Pugin, Morris, Comper, Tapper or any of the Gothic revival greats, words could not describe such a feast for the eyes!
Well, I want a new technique – weaving plus embroidery. I recently aquired an old weaving loom. I am thinking about an embroidery tecnique both on the loom and using weaving lace. Woven lace is an old weaving idea, but should there be a way to add embroidery while you weave?? I intend to figure something out..has anyone tried this?? If so, I would love to see an article on it!!
I would love to have pulled thread work featured over a year with a different stitch for each month thereby making a sample of memories.
Pam CT
What a beautiful calendar! Then again, I’m partial to William Morris. I’m not sure my applique skills are up to duplicating the designs in the calendar, but I’d love to have them hanging on my wall all year.
If I could have any needlework technique featured over 12 months in a calendar, I would choose blackwork. I find it fascinating how many different effects can be made with just straight stitches and one color of thread.
Stumpwork features
A lovely calendar would share with needleworkers the beauty of Brazilian Embroidery. This type of emboidery has drawn many creative designers who fashion dimensional flowers, animals, and other creations with needles and rayon floss. It has also drawn many embroiderers who love this art. There is a joy within this group which it would like to share with the rest of the needlework world.
I think the needlework technique I would like to see in a calendar is not a particulat technique, but different types of historic needlework. I am fond of Elizabethan embroidery and would love to learn more on a monthly basis. Also, I have loved William Morris since I became enraptures with the Pre-Raphaelites!
Good morning, Mary!
I would love to see a gold work calendar, especially ecclesiastical!
Best,
Maria VF
I would like to see Needlepoint (canvas work) featured. I really enjoy seeing all types if needlework and get ideas on how to use them on Canvas.
I would love to see embroidered stumpwork featured on a calendar over the 2013 calendar year.
Applique and embroidery….wonderful combination!
thank you for this chance to win
I love the stumpwork stitches and would like to learn more of them
What a beautiful calendar!! I’m primarily a quilter so I usually find a quilting calendar that speaks to me. If there is extra embroidery or other embellishment on the quilts so much the better!! Thank you for this giveaway – this calendar would be so inspiring!!
I would love a full year of Whitework lessons. Like a block of the month. Then at the end of the year I would have 12 beautiful blocks.
Eva McCormack
Hello,
Thank you for the opportunity to win a beautiful William and Morris calendar! I would love to have a calendar with beautiful hand embroidered (using different stitches and threads) and appliqued small projects. A bonus feature would patterns and instructions on completing the projects.
I recently signed up for your newsletter and am so excited to receive your daily postings.
Thank you,
Carolyn
I would like a calendar that would feature a different kind of embroidery each month with a gorgeous picture illustrating the work. One month would have Mountmellic, another would feature jacobean crewel work, redwork or hardanger. I love anything worked with a needle! I have started a quilt using patterns that are inspired by William Morris so would love to have the calendar.
Needlework technique? Hum! I have started to do some needlepoint. I would like a decorative needlepoint-only stitch shown each month. Step-by-step instructions across the bottom and, maybe one side, with a closeup of the finished stitch from top and side, and the largest picture being the whole project finished.
I have admired William Morris designs for many, many years. This is the type of calendar I use. Thanks for offering two of these. Can I win one? Please?
Crazy quilt stitches please
William Morris designs are amazing. But I would love to see a claendar with Stumpwork and Bralizian needlework. I saw a photo of a Begonia plant that was actually stumpwork. It was amazing and I was hooked on stumpwork.
I would love to see a calender of counted thread techniques. Cross stitch or any of the specialty stitches,pulled or drawn thread,hardanger. Samplers show these skills nicely. I can just picture some beautiful work!
Sallie
I adore William Morris’ designs. A visit to the V&A left me with my mouth open in awe. His signs thrill me and I would adore to look at them each month of next year!
I admired William Morris designs even before I knew what they were. It is terrific to have such a pantheon of applique work inspired by his esthetic as a year-long treat. They are illustrations that will go into my inspiration notebook.
The textiles embroidered and embellished by the women of Belgium and sent to relief organizations, companies and individuals as a token of thanks for food and support from the USA are a reminder of the generosity of our people during WW I. They are gorgeously and imaginatively decorated and inscribed with messages of gratitude.
Examples are scattered–from the Herbert Hoover Library to the Pillsbury Co. Museum–but they deserve to be brought together and presented as an example both of fine needlework and as a remembrance of a great and effective initiative
If I could have any needlework technique featured over 12 months in a calendar, I would choose silk ribbon embroidery. The calendar looks gorgeous.
Hi Mary,
I would love to see a calendar full of silk shading.
Thank you,
Camille Van Fleet
12 months of goldwork would be awesome!
I’d like to see a calendar with tatting featured every single month. It would help inspire me so that maybe I’d actually get a project finished!
If I was lucky enough to win one of the William Morris calendars I would give it to my friend Rachel as she adores William Morris materials and is a quilter/patch worker.
Regards
Beb with her fingers crossed
Hi Mary, This calender is 12 months of inspiration to hang on my wall
I would also love a collection of anything stumpwork,I love it all. Thank you Mary for your daily givings.
I was inspired by the pictures of the calendar. My mother made quilts all her life, but, sadly, I was not smart enough to learn from her. I do almost every other kind of needlework, though. If I could choose the kind of needlework to be featured on a calendar, it would be Hardanger, a Norwegian form of cut-work. Not only is it beautiful, but it is functional as well. In talking to the people at my local needlework store, (the only one in town, by the way!) I have learned that fewer and fewer people are taking classes to learn this beautiful skill. A calendar would raise awareness of Hardanger’s beauty and perhaps spark a resurgence in interest. Thank you for your newsletters and for this chance to win a stunning calendar!
This is a truly stunning calendar with enough inspiration to last a year. The designs and colors used are a joy to look at. I would be proud and grateful to be the winner of your giveaway. Thank you for offering it.
Barbara from Maine
Gorgeous needlework of all types inspires me as I get bored with doing only one or two techniques and want to try them all – in other words, I would love a needlework “buffet” calendar.
Mary, your blog is exquisite and a joyful diversity of topics make it so. A calendar featuring monthly techniques to practice would be great fun. That said, I’m fond of drawn work, whitework, cut work, and Ruskin lace.
Yummy calendar! Needlework technique? – embellishing hand applique with stitches. Whether it’s fine work or folk art, all is wonderful. Thanks for the chance to win!
Would love to give this calendar to my mother who is an avid quilter.
It would be great to have calendars on white work, blackwork and Goldsboro.
I love William Morris style. Have both of the quilt books featuring Wm Morris style. I have made that Wm Morris baby quilt for my granddaughter last year in more pastel colors. Would love to have this calendar. I would love to have a calendar including needleturned applique. Very much enjoy your blog.
I think Jacobean embroidery and crewel work would be high on my list. [However, I have a fascination with quilts, hence entering this competition, and visited the V&A Quilt exhibition a couple of years – much to the merriment of my (adult) twin daughters who than became intrigued with the historical side of the quilts when they accompanied me! I’m also fascinated by William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement. In fact, I’m fascinated by all embroidery and sewing techniques! Thank you for your inspirational emails and website.
Love the calendar! It would be very inspiring to see it everyday! In my calendar, I would love to see more on embroidering letters freehand. I love to embroider sayings, but spend countless hours ripping out and redoing, especially cursive because I just can’t seem to get it right the first or tenth time!
It’s awfully hard to choose just one technique to showcase when there are so many gorgeous types of needlework. This year, however, I think I’d choose drawn thread work. Hardanger, hemstitching, needle darning and all the others would make a lovely calendar. It would be even better if each was a small project with directions.
Dear Mary, My most favorite method of handwork is applique and this calendar is very exciting. What an inspiration it would be for me!
Calender is awesome ,also would love applique