Straight stitch - working with the twill weave of the fabric Whenever I have any time, when not teaching, I try to return to thi...

Experimenting with Colour So far . . . Trellis work ideas Working on some ideas for this crewel work design.  Still sampling c...

Design Colour ways Stitch ideas Colours I was due to teach this design to a needlework touring group on the 1st October 2...

the design the colours - possibly! Here is the design, on a damask woven furniture fabric.  I want to create sumptuous, luxurious,...

here it is - dyed! Sponge dyed with procion dyes  on the Ruth Issett workshop - I used linen, cotton, silk, viscose an...

satin stitch and some detail left hand side show a little of the split stitch which the satin stitch is worked over satin stitch and c...

Petit point my Twitter bird  This design was taken from Les oiseaus de Marie-Thérèse Saint-Aubin . Marie-Thérèse's designs ...

my second glove, which includes . . . bits and . . . buttons This is my second glove I worked on during the Mandy Pattullo ...

assembling the glove petit point This small project for me, was a real exercise in spontaneity, working with mixed media and thinki...