I embroidered this dress in a style inspired by English smock embroidery but I have not used smocking in the sense of  the sewing together of little pleats with honeycomb stitching. The traditional worker’s smock had far more embroidery than just that done on the gathered section of the back and front and it was […]

Sunday afternoon of the last weekend  in June and the judgment can be made that it has performed as a summer weekend should. Warm (definitely not hot), sunny and with more than a hint of languid, gardens are at their most delicious with big frosted pink to lipstick red roses and peonies, iceberg to royal […]