With the design transferred to the back of the fabric and it stretched onto an embroidery frame, it’s time to start sewing. Firstly, I need the design on the front of the fabric, where I can see it. The background fabric is silk dupion in ivory; I don’t want to mark that directly as it’s…
Category: Transferring a design to fabric
‘Teamwork’ bees: small embroidered panel
Recently, as part of my day job, I was on a management training course. As part of that, we were divided into teams and asked to produce a short presentation on a management-related theme each team was given. The team I was in was given ‘Teamwork’. We decided on a metaphorical approach, using bees and…
Nasturtium roundel
A new project: same technique, for a stylised design of nasturtium flowers, leaves and seeds. No stitching yet, but getting it set up ready. First, drawing over the design with ultra-fine Sharpies onto some gold organza: With the drawing removed but still pinned onto backing paper: I then painted this in, using diluted acrylic paints: Peeled…
Oak leaves – setting up
After the detour into goldwork, I’m back to a long-and-short project again now. I want to try something a bit different with the background this time, but that’s a long way off – I need to do the actual embroidery first. This design features stylised, rather exaggerated oak leaves. Here’s the design with some gold…
Plantagenet Wreath

I am something of an amateur history buff. I’ll happily read books or watch TV programmes about just about any historical period, though there’s something fascinatingly ghastly about the Middle Ages, and I recently read The Plantagenets by Dan Jones, which I can very much recommend. I’m also a big Shakespeare fan. Last autumn, I…
White snowdrop sample

Same design, slightly different approach. This time, I want to see how it works in white-on-white. I’ll be using the same cut-out-and-apply technique so it’s not proper whitework, of course, but I’m interested to see how convincing – or otherwise! – it is. So starting out the same as before, tracing the design onto silver…
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