Stumpwork embroidery Another piece from my workshops with Jo Pout learning stumpwork. This workshop was about creating faces. Jo’s example was ‘ladies who lunch’ but instead I invented Star and Ethan, who live on a narrowboat and grow ‘herbs’ (wink)! […]
Stumpwork embroidery Another piece from my workshops with Jo Pout learning stumpwork. This one is based on rock pools and includes sea urchins and a sea anemone as well as the starfish and shells. In each class, I followed her […]
Stumpwork embroidery The third piece from my workshops with Jo Pout learning stumpwork and the first one with thread wrapping and beads. In each class, I followed her kit for the main elements, and then added text and small adaptations […]
Stumpwork embroidery The second piece from my workshops with Jo Pout learning stumpwork. There were a lot of stitches and techniques that were new to me in this one, including the raised stem band, bullion knot and wired wing cases. […]
Stumpwork embroidery I’ve always been fascinated by stumpwork (raised) embroidery and in 2014, I had the opportunity to start to learn it with stumpwork expert Jo Pout. This is the first of the pieces I stitched from her workshops. In […]
Mixed media embroidery “I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.” from The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot Although traditionally mermaids represent dangerous seduction, they also seem to embody a certain innocence and childlike joy […]
Mixed media embroidery “I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.” from The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot Although traditionally mermaids represent dangerous seduction, they also seem to embody a certain innocence and childlike joy […]
Mixed media embroidery In Jewish mythology, Lilith is described as a female demon; in folklore, as Adam’s first wife, who refused to be subservient to him and departed Eden, before the creation of Eve. She is known by her long, […]
Mixed media embroidery In Jewish mythology, Lilith is described as a female demon; in folklore, as Adam’s first wife, who refused to be subservient to him and departed Eden, before the creation of Eve. She is known by her long, […]
Mixed media embroidery The Woodland Kings series are designed in pairs, one showing the Oak King and one the Holly King. In pagan mythology, based on Welsh legend, the Oak King and Holly King do battle for the love of […]
