With new sewing at a dangerous low – i.e. projected Christmas presents only in evidence on the drawing board – I am relieved to be able to call upon a couple of flowers finished recently for the altar frontal. Bluebells and harebells are not exactly seasonal but I take heart from the current Persephone post that […]

Winter coat but not winter honeysuckle whose flowers are an understated creamy white but which come with the most marvellous smell. In winter my embroidered honeysuckles always appear more brash and vivid than those I embroider in summer and we have to wear our favourite perfumes (Mitsouko, Aqua de Parma or Opium according to the […]