I know I have been away for a while, but it is a busy time of year and my first pattern designing ideas are very time consuming.  More about all that soon, but I wanted to write this week about my experiences of distance learning and the City & Guilds course that I have now completed.    I started the course while we were living in Paris and continued to work on it, once we moved to Stockholm in Sweden.  

In 2006 we moved from Moscow to Paris.  It was a big upheaval and quite an adjustment.  Paris of course is a beautiful city and we lived in a charming western suburb near to the British School.   The children were all in the senior school by now and slotted into life in our new enviroment easily and  John was buried in the maze of a Head Office of a huge multi-national company.  What would I find to do this time.  Brushing up my french, of course .... but I had itchy fingers and my needles & threads had spent weeks in boxes in transit.