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Stump and gold embroidery are her specialities.<\/p>\n
Stump work is three dimensional and gold is regalia or ecclesiastic stitching using metal thread.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like both of them because they make you sit up and look at them, they make you take notice,\u201d Ms Cole said.<\/p>\n
After leaving school she worked as an office manager and after her children were born she became stay at home mum and resumed stitching like a mad woman.<\/p>\n
As a member of the Embroiders Guild, word got around about her exquisite work which resulted in the next stage of her career as an embroidery teacher.<\/p>\n
With no formal qualifications Ms Cole is self-taught and highly sought after to pass on her skills and excellence to the global embroidering community.<\/p>\n
\u201cI spend a lot of time all over the world teaching embroidery,\u201d she said. \u201cUp to six weeks in America, two to three weeks in Canada and a couple of weeks in England on a regular basis.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Cole was also the approved embroiderer for the Australasian region for Christian Dior and up until three years ago was handling commission work regularly from the French fashion house.<\/p>\n
Now days, her business selling embroidery kits worldwide is marketed through her website, Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram.<\/p>\n
As Ms Cole is working on a design, she photographs it as she goes and puts it up online.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am a commercial artist. I am very practical in how I go about what I design,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
By the time it is finished and ready to go out as a kit four weeks later she said, \u201cI will have sold 25 kits before we even start packing the first kit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A MAN walked into the embroidery shop where Alison Cole\u2019s work was on display and slapped a fifty dollar note on the counter saying, \u2018I will take that embroidery on the wall.\u2019 Ms Cole laughed and said the kit to make it is worth $60, it cost $180 to frame and there is 600 hours […]<\/p>\n