Church furnishings range from serviceable to glorious, with all shades in between. A church is blessed indeed if it possesses the latter which have usually come as the  gift of a parishioner. Sadly such gifts are rarely recorded and as time goes by all parishioners who may have known the answer have died. This. I […]

In the breaks between bigger embroidery projects I try to pick up a mending job. This cashmere Jigsaw top is one of daughter No 1’s favourite weekend jumpers and at some point it has been pasture land for 3 moths (or 3 meals for 1 moth – impossible to know which). Soft to handle and […]