Shells are such pleasurable natural sculptures that I bet there’s scarcely a bathroom in Britain whose shelf doesn’t boast at least one of them. I’ve often fiddled around sewing embroidered sketches – see the embroidered nautilus shell pictured above but have never ended up making them into something that satisfies me. I did once make […]

A friend saw the rose cardigan I embroidered last year and asked me to do one for her to give as a present to little girl called Rose. Although she gave me the cardigan a few weeks ago, being occupied with other things – and just a dash of procrastination – meant that I only […]