Very Exciting News!

My most long term readers may recall that when I first started this blog, it was for accountability, in a sense.

I had plans for a two-panel embroidery inspired by the book “Nefertiti Lived Here”, by Mary Chubb, and with Life the way it is for all of us, I thought the only way I would keep at it was if I’d said, in public, that I was going to do it.

Well.

Some twenty-odd years later, that two panel project turned into 27 embroideries, 117 watercolours, and A Book!!

You may think I’d have nothing left to say, given how much I wrote on this blog as I was making the pieces, and when someone said “Why don’t you write a book?”, I rather wondered about that myself.

But it turns out that with the distance of having done a lot of other embroidery since, and a lot of painting, and a lot of thinking, there’s actually a lot to say. Not about the technical aspects; there are plenty of books of technique that as specialised books have the space to explain techniques in detail. But as someone who developed their own approach to design and design development, what I can do is share some of that approach.

The Embroiderers Guild have now published “Dreams of Amarna – Stitching An Egyptological Adventure”, and it is available to buy from their webshop now. It is copiously illustrated, with photographs by the wonderful Bernard Rose, showing embroideries and paintings, all done by me. I am thrilled to bits, and I hope you will love it, too!