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Susan A’s House

This stately Georgian house takes centre stage in Sue’s living room. Sue, from Berkshire, owns two beautiful doll’s houses, and has been making up miniature needlepoint kits of mine for several years. She says, “I have been a big fan for many years now and know that whichever kit I purchase will fit into my […]

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Caroline’s Dolls House

Caroline W, who lives in Thorpe Bay, Essex, sent these photos of her dollshouse. She has quite a collection of finished miniature needlepoint items, now, all over her doll’s house. These were all stitched by Caroline’s mother-in-law, who is still stitching – in her 80’s ! This shows the “Barbara (green)” miniature carpet design in […]

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Christine’s Carpet

Christine from Belgium made the Barbara, large (green) carpet first, then bought the matching dining chair kits. The finished carpet, along with the partially-completed matching dining chair design, still in the card mount. Christine says she classes herself as a beginner, but her stitching looks very proficient to me! Here is the carpet, complete with […]

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Janet B’s House

Janet B loves her doll’s houses, and fills them very creatively. Here are a few examples:   In this view of a small country cottage, there is quite a lot of stitching squeezed into a small space! In the kitchen is a KATRINA carpet and also a COUNTRY COTTAGE firescreen over on the far right of the […]

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Moyra’s ‘Work In Progress’

Moyra, from Chelmsford, sent us these two pictures Moyra wrote: “I just wanted to write and let you know how much I enjoyed stitching your designs and thought you might like to see the end result! Everyone comments when they open my dolls house doors. They are in my second house which, as you can […]

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Maureen and Barbara

  [Extracted from an article in The Dolls House Magazine, issue 39 August 2001] Sisters-in-law Maureen and Barbara have identical dolls houses, built for them by Maureen’s husband, Brian. They each have their own tastes in colour schemes and furnishings so, although the rooms have very similar things in them, they are different in make, […]

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Lissie Daisy’s 4-poster bed

Lissie-Daisy, from Greenwich, London, sent a photo of her “Cluny Women” Wallhanging, which she has mounted inside a four-poster bed: Lissie-Daisy wrote: “I hope that this e-mail has a copy attached of the cluny ladies which I did from your kit. I have made it into a bed head for a four poster bed which […]

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Arlene’s House

Arlene, from California, came to The London Dollshouse Festival during her visit in May 2001. She sent us these photos when she got back home “to prove I actually did use two of your designs from your book, “Miniature Needlepoint Carpets”.”   Christmas 2000, and Arlene’s house has been given bedroom and livingroom furniture, including […]

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Betty’s Wallhanging

Betty, in Stourport, Worcestershire, sent a photo of her “Cluny Women” Wallhanging. She should be an inspiration to anyone, especially those who think they might find it too difficult to start stitching: After explaining how she had the photo taken for her, she went on to say: “I do love doing embroidery of any kind, […]

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Anna-Carin’s Carpet

Anna-Carin lives in Sweden. She wrote to us and enclosed this picture of her beautifully stitched, tiny version of our Rosanna carpet, in deep red – worked on 48-count silk gauze. This is what she wrote: “I build 1/48th scale dollhouses and when I saw your book I wanted to try one of the designs. I […]