I can't tell you how thrilled I am with this. It is exactly how I imagined it would be - pretty, useful and completely unique. It has all the feel of a vintage piece...a handcrafted perfectly matched accessory.
Read MoreI know I have been away for a while, but it is a busy time of year and my first pattern designing ideas are very time consuming. More about all that soon, but I wanted to write this week about my experiences of distance learning and the City & Guilds course that I have now completed. I started the course while we were living in Paris and continued to work on it, once we moved to Stockholm in Sweden.
Read MoreIn 2006 we moved from Moscow to Paris. It was a big upheaval and quite an adjustment. Paris of course is a beautiful city and we lived in a charming western suburb near to the British School. The children were all in the senior school by now and slotted into life in our new enviroment easily and John was buried in the maze of a Head Office of a huge multi-national company. What would I find to do this time. Brushing up my french, of course .... but I had itchy fingers and my needles & threads had spent weeks in boxes in transit.
Read MoreI have been completely buried working on, what I hope will be, my first pattern designs and I hope to be able to show them to you soon. But in the meantime, I am taking a tea break to catch up on the blog and I thought it might be appropriate to tell you how I actually came to be doing any of this. It has been a long and accidental apprenticeship of sorts.
Read MoreMaking Embroidery Modern
