I love making angels. For many years, I made angels dressed in scraps of antique silk and lace, and paper wings. Then I discovered antique documents and applied them to card angel shapes. HERE you can read an article which appeared in Issue 12 of The Stitcher’s Journal showing you how to make an appliqué and […]
Those who subscribed to The Stitcher’s Journal last year, or who have a copy of Issue 7, may recall the article about Jane E Hall’s book, The Art of Embroidered Butterflies, published by Search Press and available from today in a second edition. This is so much more than a book about embroidery: it is […]
How I envy Lady Ottoline Morrell – well, perhaps not her features (Augustus John, who painted her, said she had a ‘prognathous jaw and bold baronial nose’ – not that these prevented her from having numerous lovers, including Roger Fry and Bertrand Russell), but her life. With funds and time and bold tastes she created […]
