Just before Christmas, daughter No 2, our one woman caravan, returned for a holiday from her work in the Far East and, once again, she overindulged the family with the most wonderful of gifts – some things useful in themselves (pottery, toilet bags, wallets, etc), others gorgeous in themselves (fabrics in bright orange, yellow, […]

I have embroidered quite a few of these intertwined monograms as wedding presents but when it comes to doing something for family members, it becomes much more complicated.  I still like the white on white (see here, here and here) best but daughter No 1 kept suggesting coloured initials – at first blue was the ideal colour but then again perhaps red would […]