One of my “Garden blogging” friends was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, her blog “The Journey” is an account of how she is dealing with the cancer, and the treatment.  By way of a thank you, Zoe has decided to raise money for Macmillan, and she is doing this on a new blog - called [...]

This morning in the studio I picked up a fabric background that I had made some months ago - it was rather lovely - and as I looked at it, I realized that I had no idea how I had created it.
Sometimes when you have been away from art-work for a while - you have [...]

Sample 1

Spent the day going back to basics with machine embroidery. In fact the samples I did to-day are not even free motion embroidery, but are done using the regular straight and zig-zag stitches on the machine.
Sample 1 is done on a patterned cotton background - overlaid with scraps of thin and thick [...]