My Story & Elizabethan Embroidery
by Lynette Hale
(New Zealand)
Elizabethan Stomacher
I am now retired and 71 years young! My story begins when I was about 6 years old, watching my grandmother stitching. I was hooked for life after she taught me the basic stitches. Some years later after marrying, having two sons, then losing my husband to a heart attack after only 17 years of marraige, I again took up the needle and started my stitching again which brought me some solice and strength to raise my two sons then aged 10 and 15 years old. I joined the local Embroiderer's Guild and just soaked everything up from every class that I attended!
After about 3 years there I was encouraged to tutor a class which started me into a career of tutoring the Guilds throughout the South Island of New Zealand. At a weekend away in Wanaka at an Embroidery School I met the now late, Dorothy Clarke who had done some experimental work in Elizabethan embroidery. Again I was hooked and she gave me her mantel to tutor it. It is my favourite type of embroidery amongst other techniques which I have also tutored.
I do have a web page on my niece's site which anyone may visit. This link will bring you to Lyn's Threadwork with photos of my work on the bottom of the page. I will try and upload one here. I enjoy the challenge of many types of embroidery as you will see in my photos.
Happy Stitching to everyone and hope you all enjoy looking at my work.
Lynette Hale
New Zealand
