Traditional Stitches...Contemporary Design!

Traditional Stitches...Contemporary Design!

Hope you had a good Christmas and are ready for some sewing and some new projects for 2016.  I have been a bit sluggish on my blog, I know, but that's because I have been busy scheming and designing and stitching - at least I was until my sewing room got squished into a corner to make room for the Christmas Table Tennis arena!  It's all very well and the daily house competitions are fun, but I do have itchy fingers after a week without a needle and thread.

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A City & Guilds Course brings a whole new challenge

A City & Guilds Course brings a whole new challenge

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.  

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