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- Bookplate belonging to John Rushout, Second Lord Northwick
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- The Second Lord Northwick's Book plate
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- The Second Lord Northwick's bookplate (hand embroidered by Mary Addison)
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- Northwick Park, Gloucestershire: grand staircase before renovation
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- Plate 21 (Handbook of Ornament by Franz Sales Meyer 1888; Dover)
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- Plate 22 (Handbook of Ornament by Franz Sales Meyer 1888; Dover)
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- Plate 21 (Handbook of Ornament by Franz Sales Meyer 1888; Dover Publications)
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- A Northwick Alphabet: A for Acanthus (hand embroidered by Mary Addison)
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- A Northwick Alphabet: A for Acanthus (hand embroidered by Mary Addison)
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- Copy of Portland Vase (possibly C19th Copeland)
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- Copy of Portland Vase (possibly C19th Copeland)
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- Susan Sontag: The volcano Lover (Pub. Vintage 1993)
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- Ann griffin Bernstorff: Mrs Sitwell's Herdsman. One of a series of paintings inspired byGeorge Sitwell's fantasy of decorating his heard of cattle with the willow pattern design.
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- Roberto Cavalli couture
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- A contemporary take on elements of the willow pattern design
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- plate
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- Design for Embroidered cuff on a white T shirt inspired by blue and white pottery (hand embroidered by Mary Addison)
18 Comments
Wow Mary These are lovely, no wonder no Xmas cards!!x
Dear Mary, these altar quilts are just beautiful, congratulations– though it is the alphabet animal quilt that really melted my heart, what my niece and nephew wouldn’t do to have something so colourful and bright (I’m dreadful with all crafts, so they’ll have to keep waiting!). I love the Balliol grotesques too, looking studious in stone. I feel like that sometimes…
I heard our own altar cloth has disappeared, so Doug may be putting in an order!
Best wishes with your future projects,
Phoebe
What a beautiful website, Mary – it has inspired me! Thank you…
Marjory
What a wonderful website Mrs. Addison. Truly magnificent.
Dear Mary,
Thank you so very much for writing and for giving me the link to your blog. Your embroidery is just stunning. I’m so impressed with the different kinds of work that you do, too. Crazy quilting (and the embroidery that goes with it) is an interest of mine, and I enjoy doing embroidery, but I am awed by your talent.
I assume that the college library you work in is Balliol from all the photos. As a big Dorothy Sayers fan, I am familiar with Balliol as the alma mater of her detective, Lord Peter Wimsey. I can only imagine what it must be like to work in a place so steeped in history.
Your quilts exhibit the same level of expertise that your embroidery does. The combination of quilt blocks with embroidery are magnificent.
We also share a common faith. While I was raised in the Methodist church, we brought our children up in the Episcopal Church which I, too joined. I was actually brought into the church by my neighbor when they began to remake the altar cloths and needed people who could sew. Your altar cloths are exquisite.
Your baking looks delicious as well. Christmas at your house must be fun and yummy.
I look forward to keeping up with your work. I am going to try to post more myself now that my husband is getting better. I am working on a double wedding ring quilt for our son and his bride for their first anniversary next month.
Thanks again for writing. I’m so happy to have found your blog.
All the best,
Dana Fisher, The Quilted Librarian
Dana,
Thank you for looking at my blog and leaving such a lovely comment.
You are right that I work in Balliol College Library (whose most famous alumnus is indeed the fictional Lord Peter Wimsey) and as such is very much an academic library where students need very little interaction. I do enjoy the college’s historical associations (not least its being founded by a woman, Dervorguilla – mother of John I, king of Scotland – in 1263). But your library sounds very lively, bustling and your role vital and formative – you must be exhausted when you get home, so I’m all the more impressed by the energy you have for quilting.
I hope your husband’s health continues to improve and look forward to visiting your blog http://danawarnerfisher.blogspot.co.uk again.
Dear Mary,
I love the cornflower embroidery !
Beautiful.
I had a lovely coffee morning with the hot smocked baby recently.
He is quite delightful and I am pleased to say he ate his chocolate pudding
in a hot wash babygro.
With love from Amanda.
Lovely to hear from you Amanda. Thanks for having a look at my blog and for bothering to comment.
much love Mary
You have a beautiful blog Mary with some lovely embroideries. I am glad that you enjoyed my blog and I hope that you will call again.
Thank you for looking at my blog Susan. I will certainly dip into your blog again.
Dear Mary, I have just found your website recently, via dovegrey reader, I think it is just lovely, a very enjoyable read with lovely clear pictures. Hope you and your family have a lovely Christmas. Avis
Avis, thank you for such a lovely comment which I have just picked up on my return from Midnight Mass – the best start to Christmas Day (both the service and the comment).
Lovely blog! I have a new grand-daughter, Florence, just four days old and am trying to find some traditional patterns to smock her a dress or two! Why, oh why, did I throw away all the ones I had for my daughter? Can you advise on any currently available, please?
I am always loathe to reveal this but there is a marvellous shop attached to the fabric printing arm of a company used by Liberty, Sanderson and Harlequin… Fab fabrics (not quite meeting colour standard but you would never know)! Recently bought gorgeous tana lawn for lining a blanket for just £7 a metre! Lovely people – very helpful – usually have about ten Tana lawns in stock! The company is called Standfast and Barrack and the number is 01524 598222.
The Sanderson and other Liberty fabric prices are pretty stunning too and they are happy to send samples.
How interesting about Liberty fabrics. I shall certainly follow this up. There’s also Shaukat http://www.shaukat.co.uk on the Old Brompton Road which is a bit cheaper than Liberty (c.£14 a metre).
As for smocking patterns, there are quite a lot available on the internet at very reasonable prices. I’m sure you could find the Little Vogue 1824 which I used and which is a really traditional pattern. We sent off for a couple of smocked baby patterns last summer and were very pleased with the promptness of reply and their condition. Both were out of print and were sent from America. Current pattern books were pretty useless for smocking patterns when I looked last year.
Thank you for letting me know that you like the blog.
Mary, there are many vintage smocking patterns on the Etsy website at the moment. I checked for one of the girls in the US for V 1824 only the other day.
If you would like to give Debbie my email address and ask her to get in touch with me , I have some baby patterns that I can give her.
Thank you Pamela, that is so generous. Sorry not to have replied sooner, time has been whizzing by.
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