BREATHING SPACE

My first posting of my first blog! As you can see from the picture, one of my hobbies is photograpy, but my main love is embroidery. I love all types of needlework - it is especially the textures and colours of fabric and threads which draws me to this. I also make cards and dabble with painting. As I am retired, now, I have plenty of time to indulge in my creative hobbies but often feel that I could do with 48 hours in a day so that I could indulge some more!!!

This is a piece of my stitching. I did this for my City and Guilds `Computer Design into Stitched Textiles` course, which I have just completed. The design is based on part of a garden fence and has been manipulated in Paint Shop Pro. I printed the design onto special cotton which is treated for the ink jet printer - removed the backing paper - and began stitching. Hope you like it!