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Warning 1: This is one of those self indulgent ‘things-kids-say/I-have-the-cutest -kids -in- the- world’ type post, and completely off-topic. Warning 2: This is especially for Mary Anne and any other weak-bladdered coffee-thru-nose snorters/chokers. In my defence - It is actually funny – the last one is anyway. Well the woman next to me thought so.   What is? One [...]

Thankyou. To everyone for your kind comments. Not a stitch have I taken since I finished the book. I did clean the kitchen floor (I figured if Tom – a 7 year old boy - notices the mess it’s time to do some housework), and I am cleaning up my workspace, ready to start something new. What next? I’m [...]

Just kidding. It’s just a book. From start: (flip the page) (flip the page) (flip the page) To finish: The only close up – machine embroidery of twiggy leafy branches on front and back cover.   A collaborative effort: I’m going to stop short of thanking the fans in the balcony – but I wouldn’t have finished this without everyone’s kind [...]

Stumpwork is an embroidery technique I admire immensely. I am drawn two directions with embroidery – towards contemporary free style embroidery (both machine and hand) and historical and traditional embroidery – crewel work, stumpwork, black work, white work…… Stumpwork always fills me with angst. It is fiddly, time consuming, detailed and structured. And I enjoy it [...]

Fruit book First off – I have been diligently working on my fruit book, but I am not going to bore you with progress shots: here’s a seam covered with herringbone , here’s another seam ….and wait there’s more…. Instead I thought I’d bore you with the minutiae of my life. Four years ago: I said ‘never again’ for [...]