Nautilus shells are things of great beauty but although I’ve borrowed the form of the shell a few times for embroidery, I’ve never thought about the animal housed in such gorgeous architecture. This time, my whitework N for nautilus has the whole animal – head, with prominent eye and some of the up to […]

After a wonderful weekend almost entirely taken up with celebrating the life of a friend no longer with us, we’ve returned home to find that spring may be here – I know 3 days of sun do not spring make, but they do lift the spirit. In fact a weekend which could have been miserable […]