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JACOBEAN WORK 
LIZZY LANSBERRY graduated from the Royal School of Needlework Apprenticeship with distinction in 2009.
Although she is new to Embroidery Now she is an experienced teacher with the Royal School where her creative passion for clothes and accessories feed her art and design skills. Her rapidly developing business is based in Surrey, where, in addition to producing embroidery kits andgifts, she undertakes conservation and restoration work. She has exhibited at the British Craft Trade Fair and as well as at country craft fairs in south east England and also teaches individuals and groups throughout the country and through her part-time work at a specialist needlepoint boutique in London.
 www.laurelin.co.uk
DECORATED PHOTOFRAMES 21 April
 LISA BILBY is well-known to Embroidery Now students.
She continues her work as a freelance embroiderer and tutor and is now based in west London from where she undertakes a variety of commissions for private clients and the Royal School of Needlework. Before attending the RSN as an Apprentice in 2001, she had already completed a degree in Costume Design and Production at Bournemouth Art Institute. Lisa now teaches on the RSN Day Class programme.
www.lisabilbyembroiderer.com
Lisa and Amelie
METAL THREAD WORK 19 May
BECKY HOGG is a freelance embroiderer and teacher based in south-east London. She took a first class honours degree in textiles at Loughborough College of Art before going on to study hand embroidery at the Royal School of Needlework. On completion of her embroidery training Becky worked on various prestigious commissions in the studios of the RSN, including conservation projects, a new set of curtains for the Royal Opera House, the commonwealth banner for the Queen's Golden Jubilee - and she even embroidered David Beckham's football boots!
Becky left the RSN in 2008 but still returns to teach on the Certificate and Diploma course. She now also teaches on the Textiles degree at Bucks New University and undertakes private tuition. As well as teaching Becky works on commissions and her personal work which combines hand embroidery with sketch-like patterns crafted on her 'Irish' sewing machine. She is also working on a collaborative project with graphic designers Crispin Finn. [?Link to C Finn]
Becky has just written a book the RSN Essential Stitch Guide - Blackwork published by Search Press. The book is a practical, user-friendly guide to Blackwork, showing the reader the many detailed patterns and shading methods of the technique alongside some beautiful examples of her own embroidery and pieces from the RSN Collection and graduate Apprentices.
www.beckyhogg.com
BLACKWORK 16 June
SOPHIE LONG graduated from the Royal School of Needlework Apprenticeship in 2008 and is now completing her Certificate in Education. She currently divides her time between working in the RSN Studio, teaching the RSN Certificate and Day Classes and working as a freelance hand embroiderer. Sophie attends a number of stitching shows across England, where she exhibits work and sells a unique range of embroidery kits.
In 2008, Sophie published a well-received article on Hardanger in Cross Stitcher magazine. During 2009 she was one of the RSN Studio team who were commissioned by English Heritage to embroider a set of unusual hangings for Dover Castle in the style of the 12th century. In 2009 Sophie also went to San Francisco to teach a range of day classes for the Royal School. www.sophielong.co.uk
EMBROIDERED FACES 21 July
 ELIZABETH ELVIN is an old friend of Embroidery Now. She has enjoyed a long and varied career teaching hand embroidery, joining the Royal School of Needlework in 1961 (she is pictured here at the RSN celebration of her connexion witheh Royal School) and going on to specialise in the teaching of gold and silk and ecclesiastical embroidery. She was Principal of the RSN from 1987 until 2007. She speedily re-established her teaching career and has recently been teaching in Australia, parts of the USA (including San Francisco) , as well as many locations in the UK.
Over the last couple of years Liz has been giving much of her time to teaching silk shading in the slums of Cairo to a wonderful group of young girls, and, in 2012, will be extending her skills to a group of similarly underprivileged young women in Kenya. She is also an adviser to Fine Cell Work, a charity which teaches needlework to prison inmates in the UK. [??Links to Fine Cell]
In 2011 she assisted in the curation of an exhibition on the life of the late Beryl Dean with whom she worked on many ecclesiastical projects from 1970 to the early 1990s. The exhibition was an outstanding attraction at the Knitting & Stitching Shows in 2011.
Elizabeth teaches RSN Day Classes and the RSN Certificate and Diploma at Hampton Court Palace and has .
AN ILLUMINATED GOLD LETTER 15 September
NICOLA JARVIS is Head of Stitch and Deputy Course Leader on the Royal School of Needlework Foundation Degree in Hand Embroidery.
Nicola completed the RSN Apprenticeship in 1994 and then ran a freelance business making embellishments for the British fashion industry, during which time she also gained a Certificate of Education from Greenwich University. In 2006 she graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with first class honours in Fine Art and in 2009 went on to complete an MA in Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art. Nicola Is a member of the Textile Society Committee.
Her designs for Tracy A Franklin’s New Ideas in Goldwork led to their collaboration on Contemporary Whitework and she also executed diagrams and illustrations for Embroidered Knot Gardens, Anova Books’ best seller written by Owen Davies and Gill Holdsworth. She has recently contributed her unique “Stitch Drawings” to Tracy A Franklin’s new Crewel Work publication and to the RSN’s Essential Stitch Guide – Blackwork by Becky Hogg published by Search Press.
www.nicolajarvisstudio.com
CARRICKMACROSS 20 October This class is now fully booked
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JENNY ADIN-CHRISTIE is a freelance professional hand embroiderer and designer, with an innate passion for creating individual work, for the study and repair of antique embroideries and for inspiring others through her enthusiastic teaching.
In 1999, on graduating with distinction from the RSN Apprenticeship, Jenny continued for ten years as a member of the Studio team and teaching staff. She became Assistant to the Head of Studio and a Studio Project Manager, playing a key role in a broad range of major commissions, in the production of new product ranges and in creating individual work including the new All Seasons and Lenten Altar Frontals for Canterbury Cathedral.
Jenny embarked on a freelance career in 2009. She now teaches widely throughout the country and beyond, as well as continuing to teach for the RSN. She has taught across the full spectrum of courses offered by the RSN specialising in the fields of whitework, metal thread and stumpwork. She also tutors the RSN’s Advanced Diploma in Fine Whitework.
Jenny combines teaching with creating her own unique embroideries and working to commission. Recent commissions include: designing and creating The Centenary Embroidery for Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, and contributing embroidered and beaded works to the recent Artangle exhibition A Concise Dictionary of Dress, (by Judith Clark and Adam Phillips), in collaboration with the V&A Museum.
Jenny also develops and sells a unique range of contemporary embroidery kits in stumpwork, metal thread and whitework.
www.jennyadin-christieembroidery.co.uk
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