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> Diane Dodds <ddodds@ccs.carleton.ca> writes: > I have been looking after mail for a faculty member who is in Australia > and he has offered to bring me some needlework from Australia. Could > someone please advise me as to what I could ask for. I like canvas work > but I don't know if there is a designer from AU of this sort of > needlework. I could ask for cross stitch but then I can get that here in > Canada. Is there an AU designer that designs canvas work; by canvas work > I mean like Susan Portra or Jean Hilton? I would appreciate some > recommendations if some one has any. I don't do needlework (too expensive for me) only cross-stitch. I recently saw in a shop a kit which was a cross-stitched wall chart with all the letters of the alphabet. Each letter was illustrated with a native Australian animal, eg the P has a brush-tailed possum twined around the upright. You could buy a kit for each letter separately too and I think you could get just the chart. If your colleague is in Melbourne a great shop to visit is Lazy Daisy at 142 Burgundy Street in Heidelberg (the coffee shop next door is pretty good too). They stock all sorts of needlework, cross-stitch, hardanger etc supplies. The women who run it would be able to give your colleague advice on typically Australian needlework. HTH Barbara -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "When I get a little money, I buy books. Then, if there is any left I buy | food and clothing" - Erasmus | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------