The latest flower embroidered for the altar frontal is the harebell. To be seasonally appropriate, I should have made it a bluebell as bluebells are now carpeting woodlands with a wonderful hazey blue, while you’d have to wait until July to see a harebell. But I now discover that for all the superficial similarity between […]

Over the last week I’ve managed to fit in embroidering another flower found in local gardens. Passionflowers always seem rather too beautiful to be true and I find embroidering them equally rewarding. Their name, an abbreviation of the Latin, Flos Passionalis, literally flower of suffering, is an appropriate flower to show as we approach the […]