When I design an embroidery to celebrate the birth of a baby, I like to find flowers and foliage appropriate to the time of year of their birth. For some reason I have became fixated with briars, blackberries and rose hips but the symbolism of all those thorns really isn’t a good idea for the […]

In Yorkshire for a family memorial service, this week has seen more knitting than sewing but here is an embroidered K that I just about managed to finish before leaving home. (If you look hard, you might make out long loose stitches tacking the linen to the stabilising backing. These will be undone when I […]