VirtuoSew Adventures

Aethelflaed’s border has been quite a trial, what with one thing and another. I became distracted from her by an assortment of non-embroidery things, which of course didn’t help, so having had that wonderful o...

The first thing to do was to darn the holes. This isn’t something I’ve ever done, and it was a bit of a wild adventure. I didn’t manage to replicate the woven structure, which is I think a 2-over-1 twill. I pu...

Tynemouth Priory has been in progress for what seems like forever. It was started when I was working on “Leaving The Tyne, 1915”, as part of the many experiments it took took to make that piece the success it event...

Late last year, a local film-maker friend who had bought a copy of “Dreams of Amarna” said that it had revealed a whole new world to him, and he’d like to make a film about me and my work. To begin with it was going to be a standard docume...

I started to plan the design for the embroidery on the rest of the coat with a decision: there’ll be nothing on the sleeves. The whole thing will be utterly overpowering if I’m not careful.

Then, f...