Countdown to the new embroidery pack launch

In Cornwall, writing and editing the embroidery pack for the first classes (back in London next week). The weather is atrocious. In between calls to David Cross, our designer in Ealing, am driving to meetings on our I Packed This Myself project on migrant workers...

A personal touch

Visiting different groups in Wandsworth and talking about the project - today the Association of Somalian Women in Battersea - take examples of embroidery that is important to me.















Including a dress made by my mother for me so long ago that I hesitate to say when - on parachute silk and embroidered with spring flowers from Cornwall, where I grew up.



















Grape hyacinths



















Daffodils




















Tulips.


Parachute silk is in fact nylon - a fabric readily available in the years after the war