I have lived in this small rural parish for nearly 5 years now and have come to look forward to celebrating the harvest being safely gathered in. This year the weather was a challenge for farmers once again and with a fine field of sturdy wheat stretching from the back of our garden, over […]

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 […]