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<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font color="#CC3300" size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I</font></strong><font color="#CC3300">ngrid
Berning is the owner and designer of <strong>Berion Designs</strong>.
Her love of creative needlework started when she had to embroider a
wall hanging for the end of year Home Economics exam in her final school
year. The result was a satin stitched peacock which she eventually gave
to her brother as a wedding gift.Counted Cross-stitch, Cross-stitch, Cross stitch, X-stitch, Embroidery, Needlework, Handwork, Hobbies, Crafts, Textiles, Namibia</font></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font color="#CC3300" size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">S</font></strong><font color="#CC3300">ince
then she has worked as a draughtsman in the disciplines of architecture,
geology, mine surveying and electrical engineering as well as a graphics
designer. In her spare time she tried her hand at various crafts –
pottery, wood carving, knitting, crochet, embroidery, photography, quilting,
reverse quilting and even mosaics – but her main love has always
been the actual design work entailed in whatever she has created.</font></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#CC3300" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I</font></strong>n
1998, while on holiday in the British Isles, Ingrid found an abundance
of needlework kits relating to the various aspects of the different
regions in the area and realised that nothing like that was available
in Namibia. She started dreaming about designs depicting Namibian motifs
but had no way to practically realise those dreams.</font></p><p align="justify"> </p>
<p align="justify"><font size="4" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font color="#CC3300" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">A</font></strong></font><font color="#CC3300" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
few years later her dreams became reality when she was granted first
option to purchase an existing craft shop in her home town Swakopmund,
Namibia. Within a couple of years she turned the shop back into its
original format of a wool and embroidery business, renamed it <strong>Wool
‘n Things</strong>, and used it as the home for her own designs.
Since then she has produced numerous counted cross stitch kits depicting
Namibian animals, birds, historical buildings, landscapes, people and
miscellaneous “fun” designs.Counted Cross-stitch, Cross-stitch, Cross stitch, X-stitch, Embroidery, Needlework, Handwork, Hobbies, Crafts, Textiles, Namibia</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#CC3300" size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><strong>T</strong></font><font color="#CC3300" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">o
date these kits have been marketed solely from the shop and have been
snapped up both by Namibian needlewomen and tourists holidaying in Swakopmund
from all over the world. As a result of popular demand, Ingrid has finally
been persuaded to make her designs available on the World Wide Web.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#CC3300" size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><strong>H</strong></font><font color="#CC3300" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">ere’s
hoping you enjoy stitching her designs as much as she has enjoyed designing
them! Namibia is the jewel of Africa. At the west coast of Africa, you will find Namibia</font></p>
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