Have you heard about the Bacton alter cloth? Also known as the lost dress of Elizabeth I? It’s a pretty exciting discovery in the worlds of both history and textiles that is currently on display at Hampton Court Palace until…
After designing and doing most of the stitching of my RSN certificate Jacobean module, the end was in sight! By chatting to my fellow students, I learnt that the mounting would take about 1.5 days. So to be on the…
After finalising my design and getting it approved by the tutors, I was excited to get stitching! But first I had to transfer the design onto my fabric. The method taught by the RSN is called “prick and pounce”. To…
Have you seen the Christmas issue of Stitch magazine? I’m super duper excited about it because I designed and stitched the main project on the cover! It was back in May that the Stitch team got in touch to ask…
When I started looking into the Royal School of Needlework (RSN) I quickly became intrigued by their Certificate and Diploma course. After a couple of their day and online classes (posted about here and here) I was confident that I…
In my last post I told you about how I started my journey at the Royal School of Needlework (RSN) and how rediscovering embroidery helped me to better deal with stress during some challenging times. I was obviously keen to…
About a year ago I was having quite a hard time – work was feeling very stressful and to be perfectly honest, I was feeling quite sorry for myself. I felt an urge to do some cross stitch. I hadn’t…