Embroidery Ada Lovelace portrait painting with needle and thread Ada Lovelace, born Augusta Ada Byron, was a woman of many talents. She is widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of computer programming, having written what is considered to be the first algorithm intended for use on Charles Babbage's proposed analytical engine. But Lovelace's
Embroidery What to consider before using fabric paints in embroidery projects If you're looking to add some personality and creativity to your embroidery project, fabric paints and fabric fine tip markers are excellent tools to consider. Both are versatile and easy to use, but they each have their own strengths and weaknesses that I want to share with you
Featured Keeping Your Embroidery Supplies Tracked When a new year is in sight, most of us are on a mission to do better, get fitter and be more organised. But after a few months, we fall off the resolution waggon. Don’t worry, no one is perfect. But I can help you out with a little
Embroidery Autumn: Season of Early Evenings and Embroidery As the nights draw in and the air gets a little crisper, many of us love to curl up in the comfort of our homes. For me, it’s an added excuse to grab my embroidery hoop and get stitching. From October onwards, I’m drawn to the autumnal shades
Embroidery Featured Art imitating Life Making an art of social activism I will not be the first artist to celebrate the life of a person of note, nor will I be the last. While my work may not be a sculpture or an oil painting hung in The National Gallery (yet), my embroidery is still
Embroidery Featured Standing In This Place: An Exhibition of Art Celebrating Women How my portrait of Helena Brownsword Dowson is going to be marking history Artists coming together to honour the lives of women has not been particularly common until recent times. That’s why I’m so proud to be part of the Standing In This Place exhibition running from September
Embroidery Featured Women Making An Exhibition of Themselves An artistic exhibition celebrating historic women of Nottinghamshire. Celebrating women of importance and their disruption of social norms is what I love to do. What we now take for granted, they were denied. What we have, they fought for. They saw a problem and they acted. Just like them, I
Embroidery Featured The Art of Being a Woman Honouring the achievements of East Midlands and Nottinghamshire women through my embroidery. It was Virginia Woolfe who said, ‘Anon…was often a woman.’ But women no longer accept the anonymity that was often the lot of our female forbears. What’s more, we should seek to celebrate the successes of
