Daughter No 3 chastised me recently for not receiving much – well, ok, any –  of my embroidery. She’s right, but as with daughter No 2, she hasn’t because both have been living the sort of life where heaping more possessions on them seemed a bad idea. Then daughter No 3 further reminded me […]

People often ask where ideas for embroideries come from. Usually there’s no one source – something emerges when images and and research jostle around in the back of my mind. But just sometimes I see an image and can’t rest until I’ve used it for an embroidery. And when this happens the inspiration almost inevitably […]