CGT school: Anatomy of a Cottage Garden Thread Anatomy of a Cottage Garden Thread explains the features and components of our embroidery floss.
Meet the designer: Veronique Diligent – How to sew a garden Veronique Diligent is a captivating embroidery stitcher who resides in Melbourne, Australia. Her love for gardening is entwined with her love of textiles and her garden is where she finds...
Meet the designer: Amy Kallissa - Stitching through the storms of life When Amy Morgan decided to make stitchery her business, she took her first and middle names – Amy Kallissa – and ran with it or shall we say sailed with...
Inspired: Small town serendipity We don’t have to look far for inspiration, all we need to do is step out our front door. This time of the year is particularly inspiring in our little...
CGT School: Origin Story It was 2007 and Pam Spurway was working in an aged care home in Mirboo North when her long-time friend – embroidery designer Brenda Ryan asked her to try dyeing...
CGT School: The dye lot dilemma They say to never work with children or animals…but I bet they’ve never tried to tame the wild beast that is hand dyeing a natural fibre. Differences between dye lots...
Meet the designer: Joanna Kabanoff of Mojo Stitches – stitching a sense of place Joanna Kabanoff is a stitcher and a historian, a combination that has evolved into a rich practice of textile designing and making.
Inspired: Tattooed Ladies: A short story of ink and stitching July 17th was national tattoo day and it got us pondering the connections that keep popping up between tattooing and stitching; it just feels like there’s increasingly a link between...
Product Feature: Field Journal Have you ever held a vintage embroidery in your hands and wondered who stitched it? As you run your fingers over the stitches do you wonder what year it may...
CGT school: Colour Fastness and care instructions Welcome to our first blog series called CGT school. In each lesson we are going to be cover the CGT fundamentals. Today's lesson is all about colour fastness and care instructions. ...
Meet the designer - Brenda Ryan – stitching as drawing Brenda’s stitching has become deliberately crafted to emphasize the beauty of the line. There’s a looseness - a kind of dot/dash drawing with the thread.
