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During a three-year TAFE course called My husband & I spent two years travelling Oz in
Commercial Needlecraft way back in 1994 I the 4WD & caravan living up to our travel dreams.
started a business called Colour Streams born Our bodies, minds & spirit were refreshed. My
from my love of textiles. Inspired during a trip passion for textiles renewed particularly in hand
overseas when visiting a big craft show where I embroidery as I had been given back the gift of
found a stall like Aladdin’s cave with the most time. Slow stitch has a beautiful rhythm giving
beautiful threads, ribbons and fabrics dribbling time for thought and creative dreaming. I have
from baskets igniting my passion. In my trawled op shops all around Oz collecting beautiful
business I developed a substantial range of old embroideries no longer valued by the general
hand dyed silk embroidery threads, ribbons, population. Well I sure value them as a
fabrics, wool, designs & embroidery kits & glorious resource to chop up and repurpose. I love
so much more. I experimented with these to gather a variety and cook them up in the dye
overdyed materials creating projects full of pot and collage them into a new background cloth
colour & texture my original passions. Passion for applique & embroidery.
is catchy so teaching became another avenue Now I am well ensconced at home with my large
of play whilst passing on my knowledge and studio to myself and having sorted my extensive
meeting fantastic people many who have stash I am ready for the next chapter in my textile
become close friends. journey.
Years flew by until the time was right to travel I do realize that my stash will last me for 500
around Australia with my husband. This meant years so periodically I will sell off a few bits of
time to sell Colour Streams. One of my treasure on my Etsy shop.
students and a very talented woman Christine I would like to do some more teaching
Noske purchased my business which is especially combining felting, applique, embroidery
continuing & developing today. If you want and machine embroidery. Oh, what fun. With
superb materials for your creative projects workshops in mind I am working on a new body of
check it out: work and will advertise when workshops are
Robyn Alexander Design
