Ballerina by Christine Chan from Arcadia in Los Angeles County, California     Good Morning, Goeie more, HOWDY, Buon Giorno, Bonjour, Guten Morgen, Selamat Pagi, Buenos Dias, God Morgen, Dobroye utro, Boker tov, Buenos Días, Wilujeng Enjing, Günaydin, Umhlala gahle, Bom Dia, добро утр-dobro utro,  Dobro jutro, G ‘day, Góðan daginn, בוקר טוב!!!, Hyvää [...]

    Hello stitching world *-* Hope you are having a good Monday. To inspire you…. I have a lovely piece to show you by Elena Shadrina from Moscow. I had the pleasure of meeting Elena last October in Moscow and was so impressed with her work.   Here is an example of a lovely landscape. Click [...]

        Hello everybody ^•^ I have some gorgeous Sunflowers to show you by Julia Chaschihina (Chasc) Юлия Чащихина from Moscow. I met Julia last year when we traveled to her beautiful city and saw her lovely work.     Julia learned to knit and sew from her Grandmother and her mum and good teachers at school [...]

  Bernadette admiring the spring flowers   ♫♥♫  I am pleased to tell you that this beautiful Sarah Kay design titled: Bernadette admiring the spring flowers is now available in kit form.   Embroidered by the talented Emma Kriegler from Stilbaai, South Africa, this one is sure to be a much-loved project.   This is the printed embroidery panel, [...]

    The winners of the International Silk Ribbon Embroidery Competition 2012!   I am so honoured and so happy to publish the International Silk Ribbon Embroidery Competition 2012 list of winners! These are the world’s best entries and I am so proud of every one of you. There were so many exquisite entries and [...]

  Good Morning stitching world :)       Just to let you know that the winners of the 2012 International Silk Ribbon Embroidery Competition will be announced next week!   Good luck everyone, I am holding thumbs for all of you! Love Di ♥ 31 January 2013: and the winners have been announced! Congratulations [...]

  ♫♬♪♫♬♪ Les ateliers de l’Aiguille en fête février 2013 (Workshops Aiguille en fête February 2013)   Bonjour à tous, Le planning des ateliers est enfin sorti! Merci encore de votre disponibilité! Les places seront en vente dès mercredi! Bonne soirée à tous Dépêchez-vous! LES ATELIERS DU SAMEDI 16 FÉVRIER 2013: Broderie au ruban – Di [...]

  Hello everybody ^•^  hope you had a lovely weekend…. I have some lovely pieces to show you by Tanya Yalaguzyan from Kiev and they are sure to brighten up your day :)   Tanya attended my workshop in Kiev in October and I was most impressed with her talent for ribbon embroidery.   I [...]

Good Morning, Goeie more, HOWDY, Buon Giorno, Bonjour, Guten Morgen, Selamat Pagi, Buenos Dias, God Morgen, Dobroye utro, Boker tov, kunjhani, Buenos Días, Wilujeng Enjing, Günaydin, Umhlala gahle, Bom Dia, добро утр-dobro utro,  Dobro jutro, G ‘day, Góðan daginn, בוקר טוב!!!, Hyvää huomenta, Dzień Dobry, Sugeng Enjing, Cao An, Ohayo Gozaimasu,  Labas Rytas,  Bună Dimineaţa, [...]

  Good Morning, Goeie more, HOWDY, Buon Giorno, Bonjour, Guten Morgen, Selamat Pagi, Buenos Dias, God Morgen, Dobroye utro, Boker tov, kunjhani, Buenos Días, Wilujeng Enjing, Günaydin, Umhlala gahle, Bom Dia, добро утр-dobro utro,  Dobro jutro, G ‘day, Góðan daginn, בוקר טוב!!!, Hyvää huomenta, Dzień Dobry, Sugeng Enjing, Cao An, Ohayo Gozaimasu,  Labas Rytas,  Bună [...]

  Good morning from Moscow, Russia :))  Today I am spending the day with a very special person: Marina Zherdeva, my friend and stockist in Moscow.   I have her beautiful Flower Fairies™ to show you and they will surely brighten up your day :)   The Guelder Rose Fairies….       and close-up [...]

  Good Morning, Goeie more, HOWDY, Buon Giorno, Bonjour, Guten Morgen, Selamat Pagi, Buenos Dias, God Morgen, Dobroye utro, Boker tov, kunjhani, Buenos Días, Wilujeng Enjing, Günaydin, Umhlala gahle, Bom Dia, добро утр-dobro utro,  Dobro jutro, G ‘day, Góðan daginn, בוקר טוב!!!, Hyvää huomenta, Dzień Dobry, Sugeng Enjing, Cao An, Ohayo Gozaimasu,  Labas Rytas,  Bună [...]

  NEW! Box Full of Lessons 10 (Girl Reaching) Complete Kit     ♫♥♫♥♫ Ideal kit for the beginner to silk ribbon embroidery!   The embroidery panel for Box 10…. Click on the image to enlarge     …. and close-up detail of what you will learn to make, step-by-step, in Box Full of Lessons 10  ♥   [...]

  ♥ Hello stitching world. Today I have released a beautiful new kit: Danielle cuddling her baby chick from the Sarah Kay range, embroidered by the talented Emma Kriegler…and it’s a beauty :)     Read more about it here …. and see the close-up photographs. It’s a perfect project for all embroiderers!   ☂ it’s raining [...]

“Anybody seen the sun?”   Just before the weekend and on Friday 13th, we have published our latest newsletter.    Read more about it here :))   http://www.dicraft.co.za/blog/july-2012/   Have a happy, creative weekend    Love   Di ♥

A new release Good Morning, Goeie more, HOWDY, Buon Giorno, Bonjour, Guten Morgen, Selamat Pagi, Buenos Dias, God Morgen, Dobroye utro, Boker tov, kunjhani, Buenos Días, Wilujeng Enjing, Günaydin, Umhlala gahle, Bom Dia, добро утр-dobro utro,  Dobro jutro, G ‘day, Góðan daginn, בוקר טוב!!!, Hyvää huomenta, Dzień Dobry, Sugeng Enjing, Cao An, Ohayo Gozaimasu,  Labas [...]

  ♥ Good morning :)     Today I have a new kit and a lovely creation by Emma Kriegler from South Africa to inspire you …   Click here to see the close-up photos and information.    Don’t you think that this is a perfect project for making memories!           [...]

  ♥ Good Morning, Goeie more, HOWDY, Buon Giorno, Bonjour, Guten Morgen, Selamat Pagi, Buenos Dias, God Morgen, Dobroye utro, Boker tov, kunjhani, Buenos Días, Wilujeng Enjing, Günaydin, Umhlala gahle, Bom Dia, добро утр-dobro utro,  Dobro jutro, G ‘day, Góðan daginn, בוקר טוב!!!, Hyvää huomenta, Dzień Dobry, Sugeng Enjing, Cao An, Ohayo Gozaimasu,  Labas Rytas,  [...]

  ♥ Good morning everyone — it’s a cold, rainy day in Cape Town — real embroidery weather :)   I have a gorgeous piece by Frances Squire Heymans from South Africa to inspire you today…   Click on the images to enlarge       This is Stonewall Cottage and I love the way [...]

  It’s Friday ♫♬♪ and I thought you would enjoy seeing this lovely design by Merlene Spies from Randburg, South Africa.   Merlene made this piece for last year’s competition and I just love it!   Click on the image to enlarge       Close up detail…click on the images to enlarge     [...]

  Good Morning, Goeie more, HOWDY, Buon Giorno, Bonjour, Guten Morgen, Selamat Pagi, Buenos Dias, God Morgen, Dobroye utro, Boker tov, kunjhani, Buenos Días, Wilujeng Enjing, Günaydin, Umhlala gahle, Bom Dia, добро утр-dobro utro,  Dobro jutro, G ‘day, Góðan daginn, בוקר טוב!!!, Hyvää huomenta, Dzień Dobry, Sugeng Enjing, Cao An, Ohayo Gozaimasu,  Labas Rytas,  Bună [...]

  Launch of a beautiful NEW Kit …   An exquisite Rose Garden   ♫♥♫ For all silk ribbon embroidery fans….   Click on the image to enlarge     For more information and close-up photographs, you are welcome to visit this page on my website:  PM073 Bench in Rose Garden complete kit   Enjoy your Saturday [...]

  Good morning stitching world :-))   I hope you are having a good week so far. How time flies, don’t you think?   Today I have a spectacular version of A Beautiful Place to inspire you ♥   This is the version that I will be teaching in Brisbane at Koala Conventions next year, and [...]

  Hello stitching world ♫♬♪♫ Hope you are well and looking forward to the weekend.    To inspire you this weekend….   A hand-knitted African mohair and wool handbag with silk ribbon roses…   Click on the image to enlarge     This is one of the projects that I will be teaching in next year [...]

  Hello stitching world :) Today I have a happy scene to brighten up your day… …the popular Girl Reaching design.   This is one of the projects that I will be teaching in New Zealand for Koala Conventions in 2013   Click on the image to enlarge       Don’t you think she is [...]

  ♥ Good morning everyone — it’s another beautiful sunny day in Cape Town. Colder in the mornings and at night, but the glorious sunshine makes up for it. To brighten up your day I have something special to show you by Kristina Nilsson of C R E A T I V E  E M B R [...]

  ◕‿◕  Good morning everyone — it’s a beautiful sunny day in Cape Town ♥   To brighten up your week I will show you picture-perfect Poppies in silk ribbon by the multi-talented: Valentina Razenkova from Saint Petersburg, Russia.    Valentina sent me this landscape masterpiece to share with you … do have a look [...]

Bright and cheerful…   ◕‿◕ Good morning to you… I have more beautiful designs to brighten up your weekend!   By Valentina Ilkova from Nakhodka Russia. Don’t you just love her colours?   Click on the images to enlarge     Valentina Ilkova lives in Russia, in the small town of Nakhodka. She teaches silk ribbon embroidery [...]

  Hello  :-)) Hope your Tuesday is a good one – to make it even better, I have some lovely pieces to show you by Irina Podolyak (Ирина Подоляк ) from Moscow.   Click on the image to enlarge       Irina teaches silk ribbon embroidery and other kinds of embroidery as well. She [...]

  G’Day, stitching world ♫♬♪♫♬♪♫♬♪   Oh but I have a beauty for you today! A Beautiful Place by the talented teacher and friend: Annamaria Kelly, from Fourways in Johannesburg, South Africa. Click on image to enlarge This beauty is now packed into kit form especially for you and… it is eligible for the International Silk [...]

  ◕‿◕ Good morning to you…  I think you will  love this gorgeous masterpiece by Rabia Motala from Ridgeway in Johannesburg — a wicker chair in a garden of Cosmos, Roses and Delphiniums…   Don’t you wish you were sitting in this lovely garden?   Click on the image to enlarge     …. and the [...]

  It’s Friday ♫♬♪ and I thought you would enjoy seeing this beautiful masterpiece by Emma Kriegler from Stilbaai in South Africa Titled “Oranges-and-Bougainvillea” this lovely project is now available in kit form… perfect for all embroiderers :)   Click on the image to enlarge       To see close-up photographs of this beautiful [...]

  ♥♫♥♫♥ G’day, hope you are having a good Wednesday.  This beautiful piece will surely make your day a happier one :)    Click on the image to enlarge   Embroidered by the extremely talented Emma Kriegler, it is one of the new kits in the Dreamscapes series.   To read more about the Dreamscapes [...]

  Hi everyone, hope you are all having a good week. I see that it is so cold in Europe so I am sending you a beautiful, sunny cushion made by the exceptionally gifted ribbon embroiderer and author: Helen Eriksson from Walkerville, Adelaide, South Australia.   Click on the image to enlarge…     Thank you [...]

  Good morning stitching world – hope you had a good weekend :))   I am delighted to show you a magnificent piece by Hülya Göndür Sönmez of Art Design Studio, Belsu Shop in Istanbul,Turkey. Her creation is featured in our South African needlecraft magazine: Stitches - the February/March 2012 issue number 26.  Hülya Göndür Sönmez has [...]

  ◕‿◕ Good morning to you…   I hope you had a good weekend…it is very hot here – 34 degrees Celsius (93 Fahrenheit) is HOT and humid at the coast, so I am sending everyone who has snow around them some African Sunshine to warm you up :))   I have more beautiful roses to brighten [...]

  ♫♥♫ I am pleased to tell you that the beautiful PM073 Bench in Rose Garden is now available in kit form.    The printed embroidery panel…click on the image to enlarge.       … and the embroidered piece — I just love this piece ♥   Click on the image to enlarge     And more [...]

  Good morning ♫♬♪♫♬♪♫♬♪   It’s a beautiful, sunny day in Cape Town and to brighten up your day…I have some gorgeous roses by Irina Kruts (ирина круц) from Kiev in the Ukraine         Don’t you think this cushion is a masterpiece? I love her colours and the way she has used the [...]

  Good morning ◕‿◕ Welcome to 2012!   I hope you enjoyed Old Year’s Eve and are ready to get back into the swing of things in 2012…. I have a feeling it’s going to be a good year for all of us :)   I have something really remarkable to show you to start off the [...]

  Penelope Roses by Helen Eriksson     Hi everyone, hope you all had a good week and all ready for the weekend and the big party ahead!   Today I have something special to show you… Penelope Roses by the exceptionally gifted ribbon embroiderer: Helen Eriksson from Walkerville, Adelaide, South Australia.   Click on [...]

  ♫♬♪  Good morning…a beautiful day in Cape Town. I hope you had a good weekend!   Today I am sending you precious Peonies from the extremely talented  Nigar Hikmet from Yeşilyayla köyü – Düzce in TÜRKİYE   Click on the images to enlarge       Close-up detail…     More detail…     [...]

  It’s nearly Christmas  and as a special gift for your eyes today….   …. a masterpiece in Roses by Lyudmila Deineko (Дейнеко Людмила) from Perm on the banks of the Kama River, in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains.   Click on the images to enlarge     Don’t you think her Roses [...]

  Pink Roses and Pansies by Ingrid Lee from Melbourne Australia     Good Morning, Goeie more, HOWDY, Buon Giorno, Bonjour, Guten Morgen, Selamat Pagi, Buenos Dias, God Morgen, Dobroye utro, Boker tov, kunjhani, Buenos Días, Wilujeng Enjing, Günaydin, Umhlala gahle, Bom Dia, добро утр-dobro utro,  Dobro jutro, G ‘day, Góðan daginn, בוקר טוב!!!, Hyvää [...]

  GOOD morning, stitching world ♥     Red poppies made by Rabia Motala from Johannesburg to brighten up your day :)       This is the KS071 basket of Poppies from my Dreamscapes series and it’s still one of my absolute favourite designs.             Have a good Monday everybody ♫♬♪♫♬♪♫♬♪ [...]

    Tranquil Waters (Black Swans) in ribbon embroidery     Good morning :)   Many have asked for the much-loved Tranquil Waters design too and… I have re-licensed this beauty especially for you ♫♬♪   Tranquil Waters… click on the image to enlarge           Today I will show you the embroidered piece by the [...]

  Hello everybody, I have some good news! Many  have asked for the much-loved Shades of Summer design and…   I have re-licensed this beauty especially for you :)   I thought I would show you the embroidered piece by the talented Emma Kriegler  and how she made the flowers in the foreground…   Click on the image [...]

  Good afternoon :))   To brighten up your weekend, I have a lovely piece to show you by Mrs R du Plessis from Bloemfontein in South Africa.   Titled “Floral Patio” it is a beauty!     Mrs du Plessis entered her Floral Patio in the International silk ribbon embroidery competition, and I love the [...]

  Hello everybody …hope you are having a good day :))   Today I thought I would show you a beautiful piece by Annamaria Kelly, a talented teacher and stockist from Fourways in Johannesburg, South Africa.   Click on the image to enlarge     This design Annamaria entered in our International Silk Ribbon Embroidery [...]

  Good Morning, Goeie more, HOWDY, Buon Giorno, Bonjour, Guten Morgen, Selamat Pagi, Buenos Dias, God Morgen, Dobroye utro, Boker tov, kunjhani, Buenos Días, Wilujeng Enjing, Günaydin, Umhlala gahle, Bom Dia, добро утр-dobro utro,  Dobro jutro, G ‘day, Góðan daginn, בוקר טוב!!!, Hyvää huomenta, Dzień Dobry, Sugeng Enjing, Cao An, Ohayo Gozaimasu,   Labas Rytas,  [...]

  GOOD morning, stitching world ♫♬♪♫♬♪♫♬♪ I hope you had a good weekend   Today I thought I would show you this lovely piece by By Kari Aske from Norway. Don’t you think it is gorgeous?                             Close – up of her Roses [...]

  Shaping stitches made with ribbon ….   Ever wondered how to make leaves and petals look more realistic?   Essentially, you can use needle, thread and tiny stitches to “show” the ribbon what you want it to do — how you want it positioned on the design.     Gently lift the stitch up [...]

  It’s Friday ♫♬♪♫♬♪♫♬♪ …and to brighten up your weekend I thought I would show you this gorgeous design by Kari Huffman from Norway.   Sent in by her teacher: Tone K Henningsen of Bitteliten studio in Sandnes, Norway for the silk ribbon embroidery competition.  I just love the colours in this design….       [...]

  Hello everybody – hope you’re having a good day :))   Here is an idea for you to make a useful gift for a special friend — a scissors case that I made out of white felt.                                       [...]

    Hello everybody  ♥   Just before the weekend, I thought I would introduce you to a gifted embroiderer: Olga Smirnova from Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation.   She made this exquisite ballerina for my International Silk Ribbon Embroidery competition….. and this is sure to brighten up your weekend :))))   Click on the images to [...]

  A very good morning to you! The sun is shining this side and it is a beautiful day in Cape Town. We have had lots of rain so the dogs and I have not been able to any walking and we all have cabin fever. So guess what we will do today as soon [...]

  Good morning stitching world :)))   I have a beautiful design to show you today.   Entered in the SRE competition by Judy Shepherd from England, I do love this gorgeous piece.         For those of you who wish to make this lovely design: We do have a complete kit for [...]

  Spring flowers…..   Beautiful Spring flowers for you by Valentina Razenkova from Russia   Click on images to enlarge                                                 Happy Spring day!   Enjoy your weekend stitching world  ◕‿◕   [...]

  Good Morning, Goeie more, HOWDY, Buon Giorno, Bonjour, Guten Morgen, Selamat Pagi, Buenos Dias, God Morgen, Dobroye utro, Boker tov, kunjhani, Buenos Días, Wilujeng Enjing, Günaydin, Umhlala gahle, Bom Dia, добро утр-dobro utro,  Dobro jutro, G ‘day, Góðan daginn, בוקר טוב!!!, Hyvää huomenta, Dzień Dobry, Sugeng Enjing, Cao An, Ohayo Gozaimasu,  Labas Rytas,  Bună [...]

    GOOD morning, stitching world ♫♬♪♫♬♪♫♬♪ It’s cold and its raining in Cape Town – a good day for embroidery..     Click on images to enlarge                             I thought you would enjoy this lovely piece by Valentina Ilkova уважением,Валентина from Nakhodka, [...]

   Good morning from a rainy and cold Cape town   Hope you are all looking forward to the weekend   ♥   Today I want to show a beautiful piece which Татьяна Коробейник (Tetiana Korobeinyk) from Italy sent in for the International Silk Ribbon Embroidery competition.   Татьяна Коробейник is from the Ukraine, and now [...]

    Fourth prize 2011   Hulya Gondur Sonmez, (Belsu-Crafturk) Istanbul, Turkey  for her entry of a combination of Dreamscapes designs: WHLE25 and WH123 – the bicycles. Hulya has won a prize to the value of R3700.00 and her entry will feature in the beautiful Stitches Magazine        

    Third prize 2011   Marlize Meyer (Flowers & Thyme Studio) Pretoria, South Africa for her entry: WHLE54 – Ballerina at ease Marlize has won a prize to the value of R3800.00 and her entry will feature in the beautiful Inspirations Magazine.

  Second prize 2011 Maria de Graaff, Mossel Bay, South Africa for her entry of Garden Pond (Box full of lessons 7) Congratulations! Maria has won a prize to the value of R4000.00 and her entry will feature in the beautiful  Stitches Magazine

    First prize 2011   Annamaria Kelly, Johannesburg, South Africa for her entry: WHLE25 – Country Garden.           Congratulations! Annamaria has won a prize to the value of R6000.00 and her entry will feature in the beautiful Inspirations Magazine issue #74 out in second quarter of 2012    If you [...]

  Hi everybody — hope you are well and looking forward to the weekend. It’s COLD in Cape Town and it is raining ♫♬♪ We desperately need this rain as our dam levels are too low for the summer season.           Today I thought I would show you how to make [...]

    Embroidering letters     Good afternoon stitching world ♪♫♬♪ Today, I thought I would show you something about embroidering letters to form words, names and sentences. When you need a personalised gift for a special occasion or to make a decorative piece for your home: words, names and sentences can be very useful [...]

♥   Spider-web and stem stitch roses     Click on the images to enlarge                                       First make a spider-web rose to form the centre… … then use stem stitches to form the outer petals.     [...]

  Hi everybody ♥     It’s nearly weekend…… and today I want to show you this magnificent Flower Wreath by the multi-talented Julia Chaschihina, of Moscow, Russia.   Don’t you think it is spectacular?     Click on images to enlarge                       …and the [...]

  Good morning stitching world ♥   Today I am going to teach you how to make a Twirled Ribbon Rose.                     This is one of the roses that I teach in my new Roses book The twirled ribbon rose is a wonderful technique to use [...]

    A Favour   Good morning ♫♬♪♫♬   I just love the simplicity of this design.   Here, silk ribbon embroidery was used for the roses, the rose leaves and the green railing.         Simple stitches were used to embellish her dress and her hair was made by stitching it with [...]

  Good morning stitching world ♬❤♬                         The international SRE competition is over…..  and how I WISH you could see the magnificent masterpieces that I have received from all corners of the globe.   ♬❤♬❤♬❤♬❤♬ Thank you to everyone who entered – for all [...]

Hi everybody – hope you are enjoying your Tuesday :) Today I thought I would teach you some of the sections from the new Dreamscapes design – WH06 (the curtain)         About the curtain   The curtain was made with 38mm organza ribbon number 103. There are two drops for this curtain. [...]