In the breaks between bigger embroidery projects I try to pick up a mending job. This cashmere Jigsaw top is one of daughter No 1’s favourite weekend jumpers and at some point it has been pasture land for 3 moths (or 3 meals for 1 moth – impossible to know which). Soft to handle and […]

When I was young I was a great one for wrapping presents up beautifully with carefully chosen paper and matching ribbon. The advent of 4 children  6 years and under put an end to such refinement as Christmas Eve would be spent furiously wrapping the children’s presents and stocking fillers until the larger of the […]