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Anne Peden
Member since 02nd August 2007
Occupation: Director and Designer
Anne Peden has been designing and making cross stitch and embroidery for most of her life. She is the senior designer and a director of Arts and Designs, an online shop dedicated to cross stitch, embroidery, stitchcraft and fine arts and crafts.

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Hollywood has seen a ready market for adaptations of British childrens' classics - Alice in Wonderland, Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan, Narnia, The Lord of the Rings and so on, but the movie 'Miss Potter' is based on the life of the storyteller rather than t...
This is a short piece with advice on mounting your embroidery on card for framing - what type of thread to use and how to do it. I use the lacing method for mounting my finished embroideries. For many years I used sewing thread - usually double - but ...
Goldwork embroidery is very dramatic and attractive. It can be used in more traditional designs for stylised pictures or by using the textures to give an abstract finish. Whatever you choose to do the gold enhances the work and produces a rich effect.
Blackwork is over four hundred years old and is thought to have originated in Spain. It's possible that it had been imported into Spain by the Moors from north Africa even earlier. Blackwork became very popular in Tudor England where it was used widel...