Over the last week I’ve managed to fit in embroidering another flower found in local gardens. Passionflowers always seem rather too beautiful to be true and I find embroidering them equally rewarding. Their name, an abbreviation of the Latin, Flos Passionalis, literally flower of suffering, is an appropriate flower to show as we approach the […]

Flicking through iPhotos, I came across these cushions made by daughter No 2 for a friend to put in her VW camper van. I begged for a photo of them in situ in the van before I blogged about them, but I can wait no longer – the sun has come out and I feel […]