Peony Patch – Needle Point Kit – On Sale

Peony Patch – Needle Point Kit – On Sale

Our Peony Patch Needlepoint kit has now been added to the online shop on a Christmas Sale. It is a complete kit which includes: Canvas, Gumnut Yarn Poppies, silk ribbon, instructions printed in colour, videos on USB of how to stitch the Peony’s, toy filling ...
Merrilyn’s Stitches now on instagram

Merrilyn’s Stitches now on instagram

Do you know anyone who may enjoy learning a new hobby to fill in the hours of isolation? Follow Merrilyn’s instagram where she is showing you a new needlepoint stitch each day. Stitches are selected for beginners. Follow Merrilyn at:...
Sunflower Seeds

Sunflower Seeds

Online Class Now open for Registrations If you live in the northern hemisphere, you are planting your Sunflower Seeds, while we are harvesting our seeds. – don’t like Orange?  See link for more colour options. Online Class Registration Opens:      Now Open...
From class

From class

Here are some lovely comments from students in my class. ” This is the most stitching I have accomplished ever in a Seminar.  I am amazed.”   “This is the best class I’ve taken in my stitching life. What I loved is that Merrilyn would...
Etsy Market    

Etsy Market   

 When:   November:   Saturday 17th  9am to 4pm Sunday 18th    10am to 4pm  Where:  Princess Warf No.1 Salamanca Hobart   Launching Slow Needlepoint with Merrilyn Small easy to stitch projects that you can hold in your hand. Two or three threads is all that is...
2019 Cyber/Online Workshops for members of EGA and ANG

2019 Cyber/Online Workshops for members of EGA and ANG

  1. Delphiniums – EGA Met Region Silk Ribbon on Counted Needlepoint Registration   Now Open Registration Closes:   1st November 2018 For more details and to book visit:   http://www.metroega.org/events/education-2019/ 2. Winter Garden – ANG Silk Ribbon on...
Potager –  A Walled Vegetable Garden and Orchard.

Potager – A Walled Vegetable Garden and Orchard.

Registration Opens:    1st March 2018 Cost: AU $350   Counted Needlepoint Silk Ribbon Hand sponged ‘wash’ on canvas   Twenty stitches are used to stitch corn, carrots, parsnips, radishes, tomatoes, apples, pears, apricots, raspberry’s, lettuces and herbs etc  in...
Iced Vovos – Online Class is coming…

Iced Vovos – Online Class is coming…

Are you looking for a Christmas/Holiday Present? How exciting to have a new interesting piece to stitch over the Holiday Season, given with love to you by a loved one,  or to yourself. Design size 25 x 16cm A new Mystery Online Class:    ‘Iced Vo Vo’s’ Registrations ...
New Zealand July  2018 – Terracotta Tiles

New Zealand July 2018 – Terracotta Tiles

I am thrilled to have been selected to teach to teach for the Association of New Zealand Embroiderers’ Guild Inc  2018 Conference in Nelson  13th July to 19th July. These are the two designs that have I will be teaching. Terracotta Tiles is a delicate design with some...
On Line Class for Glass House Fuchsias

On Line Class for Glass House Fuchsias

Yes, it’s back On Line Class for Glass House Fuchsias Bookings Now Open Booking Close  – 18th October 2017 Class One posted – 25th October 2017 Second stage posted –  8th January 2018. Oooooops, yes I know the class has been off line for a couple of weeks,...
On Line Class for Glass House Fuchsias

On Line Class for Glass House Fuchsias

Bookings Open – 31st August  2017 Booking Close  – 25th September 2017 Class One posted – 3rd  October 2017   It is with great pleasure that I offer Glass House Fuchsias as an online class. Students will receive three exciting, tactile, luxurious parcels...
Winter Garden Kit

Winter Garden Kit

Order your kit now on www.merrilynheazlewood.com.au I will also be teaching this design for Devonport Embroiderer’s Guild Tasmania August 30th, 31st and Sep 1st A mid winter walk on a very frosty morning, along a farm laneway was the inspiration for this design....
Needlework Cruise – Marnie’s  Melody – Biscornu

Needlework Cruise – Marnie’s Melody – Biscornu

This is the third  project of mine being offered on the Needlework Cruise Sydney to Seattle   22nd April to 14th May 2018 To book for these workshops visit the Needlework Tours Website >   Marnie’s  Melody – Biscornu   After a shopping spree on my recent...
On Line Class for Glass House Fuchsias

EGA October 2018

To book visit:   www.egausa.org  – early registration will open on 20th August 2017 I am delighted to have been selected to teach at the Golden Jubilee Seminar for Embroiderer’s Guild of America in October 2018. I will be teaching this Encore design of Glass...
Needlework Cruise

Needlework Cruise

This is the second project of mine being offered on the Needlework Cruise Sydney to Seattle   22nd April to 14th May 2018 To book for these workshops visit www.needleworktours.com.au   Delicate Snowdrops worked with silk ribbon are the feature of this design...
Not Santa’s Series Kits

Not Santa’s Series Kits

Not Santa’s Series was designed after a trip to the USA in 2013 when I became fascinated with all the various threads available for creating Santa’s Beards and the fur around his Coat, Hat and Boots.   Rainbow Gallery make a wonderful range of fuzzy, metallic and...
On Line Class for Glass House Fuchsias

Needlework Cruise – Sydney to Seattle, May 2018

Needlework Cruise Sydney to Seattle   22nd April to 14th May 2018 To book for these workshops visit www.needleworktours.com.au Wow, another great Cruise with the Needlework Tours and Cruises. Glass House Fuchsias The island state of Tasmania has a wonderful temperate...
Workshops: All Threads Brisbane- 15th and 16th July

Workshops: All Threads Brisbane- 15th and 16th July

It will be a delight to be returning to Brisbane to teach at All Threads. Kerryn and her staff selected my fun collection in the ‘Not Santa’s Series’ to offer for this workshop. Students will be able to select one of the four pieces in this Series. The ‘Not Santa’s...
NEWS: Workshops 2017

NEWS: Workshops 2017

Monday Afternoon’s I will be returning every few weeks to Launceston to stitch with my regular group. Learn Embroidery Stitches My new Council (Shire) offer a range of lifestyle classes and I have been offered to join their list of tutors. We are offering a Beginners...
EGA Seminar in Alexandria Virginia

EGA Seminar in Alexandria Virginia

I have just finished teaching  five days at the EGA Seminar in Alexandria Virginia. It was geat fun and I had wonderful students who accomplished a lot. My four day class had 22 students including two who had never done counted needlepoint. Fuchsias bloomed on day...
What does the remainder of 2016 bring?

What does the remainder of 2016 bring?

A belated Happy New Year to everyone. I do not know where the 1st month of the year went? For us it has been very hot, so it was so easy to stitch away the days in a cool room watching Tennis or Cricket on TV. What does the remainder of 2016 bring? My focus is on the...
A new design with new threads brought back from the USA.

A new design with new threads brought back from the USA.

An unsuccessful (USA Government issue) application for a temporary work visa to teach at ANG resulted in classes being conducted via webcam with wonderful ‘in class room’ help from Susan and Becky. With my passport ‘back in my hand’ I was able to be a late...
Needlepoint, embroidery and Cruising

Needlepoint, embroidery and Cruising

On the 1st of April I was in Freemantle Western Australia, onboard the Voyager of the Seas preparing for our Needlework Cruise. We had six days of wonderful stitching. My students were amazing. I was very pleased with the amount of stitching they accomplished and the...
Fuchsias and Needlepoint  – Brisbane

Fuchsias and Needlepoint – Brisbane

In mid March I had a wonderful weekend of teaching Needlepoint at All Threads in Brisbane The students stitched Fifi’s Fuchsias, my counted needlepoint design. I also shared with them some of my other Fuchsia pieces.
Children’s Book – Molly and Polly

Children’s Book – Molly and Polly

I would now like to share with you a little of what I have been doing over the past few months, I hope this explains why my newsletters have been absent. Over summer I wrote a children’s book about my two pet lambs, Molly and Polly. This is a true story about my...
Needlepoint Guild Preparation

Needlepoint Guild Preparation

Today I have started ordering threads and canvas for the kits that I will be teaching at American Needlepoint Guild USA Seminar at the end of September this year . ‘Splendor and Sparkle’ is one of my counted needlepoint projects I am teaching at the Seminar....
Needlepoint Magazine Article

Needlepoint Magazine Article

This year is flying past so quickly, it is now mid May. On a very cold day with snow well down our mountains it is an ideal time for writing a much needed Newsletter as I have many things to share with you. ‘Hens in the Garden’ is on the back cover of the current...

2015 Workshops

2015 Workshops Saturday Group Roses 4 3rd Saturday of February, March and April The Saturday ladies will work this design over 3 months. Silk ribbon in 4mm, 7mm and 13mm will be used to create these realistic Roses. Thursday Group Merrilyn’s Flowers, a Needleworker’s...
Lavender Farm

Lavender Farm

Latest release. Design size approximately 24cm x 17cm or 9.5 ” x 7”. Master graph and detailed instructions. Suggested skill level: Intermediate to advanced The criteria I set for Lavender Farm was to show the stages of the flowers development. From small delicate...
Needlepoint Now – Sep/Oct  2014 issue

Needlepoint Now – Sep/Oct 2014 issue

Pumpkin Patch design as featured on the back cover. This great needlepoint magazine is a delight to work with and it is a rewarding pleasure to have another of my pieces featured in this issue.