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 […]
Had a wonderful week in Amsterdam a couple of years ago, staying on an architect’s houseboat in the Jordaan. One of our favourite museums was the Jewish Historical Museum, arranged over four synagogues near the old Jewish quarter. In the first section, the various Jewish festivals are described. One of these is Purim, which celebrates the […]
Embroiderer and homeware designer Caroline Zoob had some inspiring ideas for her students on using old maps, musical manuscripts and handwritten letters on cardboard templates of Christmas trees, reindeers, stars and birds to create charming sepia-tinged tree decorations and cards See full article on Homes and Antiques
Bleached wood, worn stone, pebbles polished by the changing tides, feathers, shells, pine cones and even lichen covered twigs can all be displayed to great effect, particularly on the broken surfaces of marble and original paint.
I have been working at home this week and feeling keenly the lack of light, the days getting shorter and darker. Having unpacked and sorted out my unit after the Midwinter Fair last week I decided to take a couple of my large glass lanterns home. I put two of the white pillar candles I […]
My car is filled to the roof with over 200 glorious hydrangea heads, their stems stripped of leaves, ready to take to the Country Living Fair this week. This afternoon my husband pruned the Virginia creeper so that I can take the stems to the fair and twist them into a wreath base for my […]
