My husband’s daughter-in-law liked the T shirt I embroidered for her daughter so much that she asked me if I’d do something similar for her. She’s small and has longish, dark, very thick hair and a smooth complexion, so the sharp colours of the honeysuckle on a background of navy blue should look really gorgeous. […]

  I have an ongoing battle trying to embroider roses and feel I never quite capture that certain roseness of a rose. Quite often they turn out more like peonies or poppies and even my best attempts have a certain squashed quality as if they’ve been sat upon or have emerged flattened from decades lying […]