Jean popped in to see me to-day - to see how I was doing with the vertigo - and to show me her finished piece of work.

This is a close up - I particularly like what she has done at the bottom with the machine wrapped cord couched down to form the sea. Also [...]

This is Denice’s finished work - well almost finished - She was going to do some hand stitching at home - to blend the heavily textured area more into the background fabric.
The picture below is a close up - lovely texture - Denice was pleased with the finished result.
I spent some time in the [...]

This is another view of Pats sampler - again apologies for the quality of the photography.
Pat is going to do a small amount of hand stitching onto the little square to catch down any loose fibers that have come adrift since she cut the squares from a bigger piece.

This is a close up of one [...]

Here is Jean with her (nearly) finished piece of embroidery. She will be so cross with me that the photo is of her holding her work up! She didn’t want to be in it. I did take a close up of the work - but it was very out of focus - [...]

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Today was the first session of Machine Embroidery for Beginners, and we were a very select group of 6;- plus me!
This was ideal as it meant we all had enough time.
For some reason - blogger wont let me post all my pictures tonight - so here are some of [...]