I’ve often wanted to embroider circus initials and thought they’d make fun cushions for children. Emily Peacock designs very jolly needlepoint kits using such initials but the design has lots of plain canvas to wield a needle through before you get to the fun of the decorative letter. So, for me, embroidered appliqué is […]

Just as cooks produce recipe books with similar recipes under different names (made an almost new dish with the addition of one or two ingrenients), so – I now learn – do knitting pattern designers. I had previously knitted two Fair Isle cardigans from a pattern in  Debbbie Bliss’s Baby Cashmerino collection of 2002. A […]