Anyone following the progress of the altar frontal may have noticed that all the recently embroidered flowers have a black background. This wasn’t always the case as to begin with I embroidered most on a cream ground and one on very lightly patterned ground, intending to also use various other different backgrounds. Gradually I begin […]

The stimulating thing about doing these monograms/initials to celebrate a marriage is that it’s a good reason to play around with all sorts of different styles for the lettering – I suppose I should call them fonts but somehow that sounds too mechanistic for hand embroidered letters. Choosing a style for these letters was easy […]