Elizabethan embroidery (surface & metal thread and reversible blackwork)

Melinda Sherbring came to embroidery through her fascination with historical crafts. She began figuring out and documenting some previously undocumented stitches after a career of figuring out how to tell computers how to do things that had never bee...see moren done before. She was a software engineer in the aerospace industry for nearly four decades, retiring in 2013. She now teaches needlework with designs rooted in history. She has written two EGA GCCs, taught at EGA and ANG seminars and EGA's 2020 Extended Study Program. She was featured in March 2018 Needle Arts magazine as Designer Across America. see less