I'm in a green mood right now . So I'll be working on our mermaid's emerald tail this weekend . It's nice and easy , relaxing stitching . Each tiny section , I pick a shade of green from the bundle of crewel wool at my side .                                                                  Green   ?? So I'm really enjoying , bringing a simple black and white 16th century woodcut picture of a mermaid to life ..read more

                               So here she is . The Mermaid Fair .                        With rosy cheeks 'n' coral lips 'n' emerald tail 'n' long sea weedy hair .                          The  design has come from a 16th century woodcut picture .                                       &nbs ..read more

                                            But then I saw something was wrong .                                          For a Whale don't have a tail THAT long ..read more

                                               Simple stitches.  Not a tutorial , but for those who want to know  , I have started with closed , long and short , kinda raggedy , blanket stitch .                                           Kinda Raggedy Long and Short stitch .   As I walked along the cliffs of Mullion , looking out to sea , I saw ..read more

                                            So with the full moon ....the tide came in  ..read more

 I am slipping into Anglo-Saxon mood again .  I enjoyed stitching this Anglo-Saxon brooch . It was a brooch that was found by archaeologists in a grave in the grounds of St Augustine's Abbey Canterbury .  It was on display in the museum there . I fell in love with it and just had to stitch it .  I worked it in crewel wool on a piece of linen . The brooch was inlayed with tiny pieces of glass . The colours just sing and stir my heart . I had wanted to couch gold thread to the metal parts of the brooch but I couldn't tell from the one photo that I had of it , if it was ..read more

           I'm still here ... in case anyone was wondering . I was just tidying , reorganising and sorting through all my needlework stuff .  To be honest , the tide of creativity went out and I feel like I am walking bare feet on the wet sand .                        Here's a little owl I stitched from a medieval illumination .                                                 &nb ..read more

                                                                 Star Ship  ..read more

  So I'm doing a little ship stitching practice  . This one isn't looking too bad  .  ..read more

                                                  Splashdown  ...not quite finished . So I missed the Artemis take off , as it was in the small hours and I couldn't wake myself for it , but I did watch it's space capsule "Orion"come back to Earth . Next time there will be people inside it !  So then we had an incredible hail storm , Such as I have never seen before . Many places had snow . It came down as hail here ....I went outside to take pictures of it ..read more