Winter coat but not winter honeysuckle whose flowers are an understated creamy white but which come with the most marvellous smell. In winter my embroidered honeysuckles always appear more brash and vivid than those I embroider in summer and we have to wear our favourite perfumes (Mitsouko, Aqua de Parma or Opium according to the […]

Inadequate packing has meant an enforced break from craft activity. I have wool but no needles (Loop’s combination of narrow doors and 2 awkward steps looked beyond my navigation skills in charge of one of those giant all singing and dancing super buggies) and linen but no light box, so no transferring my embroidery design […]