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Lynette Anderson
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Growing up in a small village in Dorset, England, Lynette spent the summers with her brother playing in the fields around her home and the winters busily crafting things with her mother. Some of the imagery in her work still draws on those memories, as well as events occurring in her current everyday life - her whimsical appliquéd animals and embroidered details are distinctive. From a young age Lynette loved animals, she was always to be found with a cat tucked under her arm. Its not surprising then that many of her designs feature these beloved animals. Lynette’s love affair with textiles began at an early age when her grandmother taught her to embroider and knit, patchwork caught Lynette’s attention in 1981 after the birth of her first son. Lynette has several aspects to her business these days. She started designing and selling her patterns in 1995 under the label, Lynette Anderson for The Patchwork Angel, chosen because her father always referred to her and her brother as his angels. Two years later, she opened a quilt store, The Patchwork Angel, with her mother Ruth’s help. It was in an old church on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, but after almost 10 years, she decided to sell it and focus on her designing full time. As well as having several books of designs published, her patterns for stitcheries, quilts, block of the month quilts and more are now marketed under the name, Lynette Anderson Designs. |
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| A second strand of her business is designing handpainted wooden buttons. They are cut to her original drawings and painted locally to her specifications, then marketed worldwide through quilt stores. | 'Its Quilting Cats and Dogs’, Lynette’s first professionally published book was released in August 2010. Published by David and Charles (F&W Media) it’s filled with heart-warming designs that combine simple but stunning hand stitchery with traditional patchwork and quilting techniques. Lynette’s next book ‘Country Cottage Quilts’ is due for release mid March 2012. |
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The next step for Lynette was to fulfill her dream of putting her designs onto fabric, the invitation to join the team at Lecien in 2010 came at just the right moment, in the last two years Lynette has released several very successful fabric collections: Summertime Friends, Scandinavian Christmas and Secret Garden and 2012 promises to be a busy year with the release of Hollyhock Cottage, My Redwork, Happy Halloween and Christmas Fun. Newest Fabric Collection : Candy Cane AngelTo find out more about Lynette why not visit her blog www.lynetteandersondesigns.typepad.com or to find a stockist her patterns, buttons and books please visit www.lynetteandersondesigns.com.au . LinksLynette Anderson Designs |
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