Inspired my a book I bought in Arezzo before Christmas, “Small Wonders” by Serena Boffa Soda, I’ve been stitching a series of embroidered hexies. She uses…
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I’ve spent some time mounting and framing some of the work I did last year, plus I’ve started to – tentatively – work on slightly larger…
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I’ve spent the last few weeks – most of this year, actually! – working on these embroidered pictures. I started off by doing an online art…
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We’ve had some lovely sunny days so far this year, but this morning it really feels as if spring has arrived. I’m sitting indoors waiting for…
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Embroidery, both hand and machine, has always been my first love. Years ago, when I sold my own range of Christening Wear, in Wakefield (uk) craft…
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This beautiful short poem – the above photo – is one of two poems sent to me from one of my sewing holiday guests, Maggie Patching.…
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For those of you in the UK, today’s Telegraph magazine “Saturday” features an article called: “People who went on holiday – and never came back”! – –…
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The last few months haven’t all been about tidying up the garden and relaxing with a glass of Prosecco…or having trips out the the lake or…
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It was a perfect winter’s morning – blue sky, cold but sunny – so we went up into the old town of Castiglione del Lago, for…