Dear Subscriber, 
My apologies for the lateness of this issue - I was working frantically to wrap up our newest Victorian DVD collection! If you're a needleworker, you'll appreciate this one - it's a collection of more than 2000 Victorian embroidery patterns and designs.
I'm not sure how old I was when I began to embroider, but once I got bitten by the bug, I was an addict. I tended to embroider just about anything I could get my hands on. I even remember embroidering a border onto a towel that actually belonged to a motel we were staying at one summer. I had to leave it behind, of course, but it was a lovely bit of work! When I was in high school, I fell in love with a Victorian crazy quilt that was being repaired at a little antique shop I often stopped into on my way home. From there I became an avid crazy-quilter! And that, oddly enough, led to one of my very first published articles - on the stitches used in Victorian crazy quilting.
Today, slightly arthritic hands and not so great eyesight mean that embroidery is more a fond memory than an active hobby. But many of the patterns in this collection are so tempting that I'm seriously thinking of getting out the needle once again. I've never been able to give up my collection of embroidery threads, so all I really need is, say, a towel...
And now here's what we have for you in July, the perfect month for picnics out of doors...
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VICTORIAN TIMES QUARTERLY #16 AVAILABLE!
The latest volume of Victorian Times Quarterly is available on Amazon, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.ca.
Victorian Times Quarterly #16 includes the contents of the April, May and June 2018 issues of Victorian Times. In this lovely print edition you'll enjoy the latest installments of Aunt Mehitable's visit to Washington DC, Grant Allen's Moorland Idylls, and so much more. This collection includes a look at London's home for lost dogs; first-hand accounts of working life for Victorian women; a visit to the "modern" cave-dwellings of Victorian Britain; tips on how poachers strive to outwit gamekeepers; glimpses of some amazing award-winning decorated bicycles; a ramble through Victorian Nebraska; a look at Victorian weddings; craft tips on making Easter eggs, dollhouse furniture and pewter repousse; loads of recipes... in short, more Victoriana than you can shake a stick at! If you were inclined to shake sticks at things. Add it to your bookshelf today, or share it as a gift with the Victoriana lover on your list.
To find out more and access the ordering links, please visithttp://www.victorianvoices.net/VT/VTQ/VTQ16.shtml
CHECK OUT OUR NEWEST COLLECTION!
Beautiful, elegant embroidery was a defining feature of the Victorian age. Victorian ladies were expert needlewomen, adorning clothing, household items and an amazing range of gift items with lovely stitchery designs. Today we bring you an amazing collection of Victorian needlework patterns and designs - over 2000 patterns - to brighten and inspire your own craft projects.
This collection includes floral patterns, animals, birds, international designs, charted and counted patterns, patchwork patterns, borders and continuous designs, beadwork, and more. It brings you designs from the top women's magazines of the era, including Godey's, Peterson's, The Girl's Own Paper, Demorest, Cassell's Family Magazine, and several books on needlework and crafts. And speaking of books, we've also included several classic Victorian e-books on embroidery and needlework on the disk, including Sophia Caulfeild's Dictionary of Needlework and Therese de Dillmont's Encyclopedia of Needlework.
I'm not going to run on about the virtues of this collection here; I'll limit my promotional meanderings to two things: (1) High resolution images and (2) virtually no usage restrictions. All the images are at least 300 dpi and most are 600 dpi - which means you aren't going to open this collection and see a bunch of tiny, 65KB files that aren't good for much of anything but viewing on screen. And we don't care what you use these for - personal, commercial, whatever - unlike some other collections that have a set of restrictions that runs on for over a page! (Partly because we actually know what "public domain" really means...) To find out more, and see our preview gallery, visit http://www.victorianvoices.net/clipart/embroidery.shtml .
Thank you all for being a part of the VictorianVoices.net family!
Your Intrepid Editor,
Moira Allen