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First published 2022 by: Bustle & Sew Station House West Cranmore Shepton Mallet BA4 4QP www.bustleandsew.com
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Welcome to the June Magazine Hello everyone! June … the first month of summer when the nights are short and we can enjoy long twilight evenings in the garden. This month’s edition has a very summery feeling to it as we look forward to summer holidays with my second collection of birds, this time those that live by seaside, beautiful koi carp in a lily pond and one of the prettiest tote bags I think I’ve ever seen! We also explore letters K and L in our Stitcher’s Alphabet series (we’re nearly half way through), enjoy a Right Royal Feast in our recipes section and much more besides. All that remains now for me to do is to wish our monarch, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II a very happy Platinum Jubilee, and if you’re joining in the celebrations I do hope the sun shines and you have a wonderful time. I hope you enjoy this issue and the July Magazine will be published on Thursday 30 June. Until then I hope you have a lovely month, with lots of time for stitching! Very best wishes
Helen xx
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Between this month’s covers … June Almanac
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Seaside Birds
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The Prettiest Tote
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The Taste of Summer
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The Scented Garden
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Transferring your Design
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Choosing the Right Hoop
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The Rose: Queen of the Garden
Page 62
The Legend of Arachne
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Lovely Idea : Rose Bag
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Lily Pond Hoop
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Jenny Wren Pin Cushion
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Summer Printables
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A Little Look at Muslin
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A (very) Little Look at Toile de Jouy
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Embroidery Stitch Guide
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The Countryside in June
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In the Kitchen: Conversion Tables
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A (very) Little Look at Petrykivka
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Templates
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Florence’s Dinosaurs
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A Right Royal Feast
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Tropical Zebra Hoop
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Poetry Corner: Adlestrop
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A Stitcher’s Alphabet K and L
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Edible Flowers
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Hoop-la! Choosing your Hoop After you’ve been stitching for a while you’ll develop your own preferences – including whether you like to hold your work in your hand when stitching or if, like me, you’re more comfortable using a hoop. And if you do decide a hoop works best for you – then this raises the all-important question – which is the best sort of hoop to use? Hoops come in a huge range of sizes and are available in wood, plastic or metal. Some hoops are round, square or oval, while others are large rectangles or scrolls. Finding your way through this bewildering array and choosing the right hoop for your project is important for your own comfort as you work as well as the quality of your finished stitching.
to work you place your fabric over the bottom ring, then push the outer hoop over the top pulling it taut, but not too tight. You don’t want to stretch the fabric which will cause the shape to distort and ruin your work when you release it from the hoop. Then tighten the screw to hold the fabric firmly in place. Having a taut piece of fabric makes it easier (I think) to create nice, even stitches at the right tension. The size of the hoop you choose will depend on the size of your project. It should fit around your fabric with between 1” – 2” spare once the hoop is tightened. It is best to choose a hoop that fits comfortably in one hand, while you stitch with the other. The hoop doesn’t have to completely enclose the area to be stitched, it can be larger or smaller. If smaller, then it’s a good idea to insert a small extra piece of fabric when moving it from place to place to protect the stitches you’ve already worked.
Using a hoop is straightforward. They are formed of two parts: the outer edge or framing piece with spring or screw hardware and a piece that fits inside of it. Round hoops, the most usual shape of hoop, range in size from 3 to 14-inches in diameter before you begin
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A (very) Little Look at Toile de Jouy The word “toile” comes from the French word for linen cloth. The name toile de Jouy, means linen or cloth from the town of Jouy-en-Josas, in the suburbs of Paris where the pattern first rose to popularity in the 18th century. In the world of prints, it conjures something specific—an intricate pastoral scene, often rendered in shades of blue or red, against a white or cream linen or cotton. More than 300 years later, toile prints still pop up everywhere. You’ll find them used to make clothes, printed on wallpaper, and even on chinaware and children’s toys! Though toile was available in Ireland and England in the early 1700s, it didn’t rise in popularity until 1760, when
the French-German industrialist Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf set up shop in the town of Jouy-en-Josas. The history of toile in France starts a couple of hundred years earlier however. After France started importing cotton in the sixteenth century, cotton fabric became so popular that it started threatening the country’s own textile production of silk and wool, which were harder to care for and more expensive. In 1686, the French government imposed a ban on the import of cotton. But when this ban was overturned in 1759, Oberkampf saw that the time was right. He chose Jouy-en-Josas as the place to manufacture his printed cotton fabric for two main reasons:
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A Right Royal Feast…
On 6th February this year Her Majesty The Queen became the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, marking 70 years of service to the people of the United Kingdom, the Realms and the Commonwealth. 10
Royal Chocolate Cup Cakes
The Queen’s Drop Scones
Ingredients
Method
● 4 teacups* flour
● Beat eggs, sugar and about half the milk together, add flour, and mix well together adding remainder milk as required, also bi-carbonate and cream of tartar, fold in the melted butter.
● 4 tablespoons caster sugar ● 2 teacups* milk
● Her Majesty’s recipe ends there, but seeing as these are similar to pancakes, one can then assume the batter would be dropped into a pan by the spoonful and flipped when bubbles started to appear on the surface.
● 2 whole eggs ● 2 teaspoons bi-carbonate soda ● 3 teaspoons cream of tartar ● 2 tablespoons melted butter.
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Strawberry Lemonade So delicious and easy to make and a wonderful colour too. It comes out as a concentrate that will need water added. I pair it with sparkling water, garnished with sliced strawberries and mint.
Ingredients ● 1 Cup of granulated sugar ● 1 Cup of water ● 2 Cups of strawberries ● 1 ½ Cups of lemon juice
Method ● You first need to make a sugar syrup by putting the water and sugar into a pan and bringing it up to a strong simmer. Leave to cool. ● Blitz the strawberries in a blender until smooth, then add to the sugar syrup along with the lemon juice, stir well, dilute as preferred and serve.
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Adlestrop Yes, I remember Adlestrop The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June. The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat. No one left and no one came On the bare platform. What I saw Was Adlestrop - only the name And willows, willow-herb and grass, And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, No whit less still and lonely fair Than the high cloudlets in the sky. And for that minute a blackbird sang Close by, and round him, mistier, Farther and farther, all the birds Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire Edward Thomas
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Mary Knowle Embroiderer Extraordinaire!
Transferring your Embroidery Pattern
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● From your coloured felt cut two strips, one measuring 6” x ½” and the second 3” x ½”. Fringe one long edge of each strip.
● Position on cactus and pin or stitch into place. ● Your pin cushion is now finished.
● Cut the strips into three lengths and roll up together to make 3 flowers, securing the roll with a dab of glue - the shorter strips forming the inside of the flowers.
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A Little Look at Muslin The origin of the word "muslin" is uncertain - it may derive from the Hindi word "mulmull" which has been used in India for centuries to describe a plain woven, sheer cotton cloth - or possibly from "Mosul" - an area in Iraq. Butter muslin, cheesecloth, gauze and flag bunting are all different types of muslin. The first two names refer specifically to their original culinary uses - to strain or to wrap butter, cheese, bacon and puddings. Butter muslin is still used for this purpose today, and for straining and clarifying soups and sauces. These practical uses are reflected in the coarse,
unbleached cloth that still retains the small dark flecks of the cotton seed that are removed in further refining and bleaching processes. In contrast, more than three hundred years ago craftsmen in Dacca (now part of Bangladesh) were spinning and weaving cotton into the most fine and beautiful cloth used only for royal and ceremonial occasions. This cloth was so light that, yard for yard, it weighed less than a quarter of the weight of a fine quality muslin today. As fine as a cobweb, with dainty "butis" or floral sprigs embroidered in a slightly thicker yarn, it caused a sensation at the
Watercress with muslin cloth
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Great Exhibition held in Hyde Park, London in 1851. Today the best and finest muslin cloth is made from Egyptian cotton - a name which no longer refers only to its country of origin,but to a type of cotton plant that produces one of the highest quality cottons in the world. The length and quality or staple of the cotton fibre determines how fine the yarn can be spun. Except perhaps for USA Sea Island cotton, Egyptian cotton has the longest, finest staple and this is why muslin woven from Egyptian cotton yarn is so fine and delicate, with a lovely subtle sheen.
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