Contemporary projects for you and your home As we are in the dark dank days of November, at least here in the UK, I felt it was time to review a craft book that is a contemporary take on a a very old technique. A craft that you can easily practise with very little in… Continue reading Embroidery Now
In her sixties, Lennie has, almost fallen, into a new exciting and creative career. She is the mother of Jessie Ware the English singer-songwriter. In late 2017, together they launched their podcast Table Manners, now in its eighth series they have broadcast over 80 podcasts and been listened to more than 8 million times. Table… Continue reading Meet Lennie Ware, mother of Jessie, and one half of the very successful pod cast Table Manners
This small but packed exhibition is on from 27th October 2019 until 26th January 2020 in the Sackler Wing at The Royal Academy of Arts Burlington House Piccadilly London W1J 0BD https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/ Ok let's start with the biographical bit, Freud was born in Berlin in 1922 and moved to the UK in 1933 to escape… Continue reading Lucian Freud The Self Portraits
A Naughty Knitted Noel published by Collins and Brown at £9.99 Have yourself a very merry Christmas with the bare bottomed inhabitants of woolly bush. When this book landed on my desk I felt that I’d journeyed back in time to the land of Benny Hill, The Two Ronnies, Morecambe and Wise, where innuendo was… Continue reading Nudinits by Sarah Simi
I went to meet Clare Youngs with my photographer Antonia Attwood to interview and photograph her in her Thanet home. Clare writes craft books for the publishers Cico, and whatever the subject, they are always of the highest standard, beautifully styled and informative. I was curious how Clare had got into the business of being… Continue reading Meet the Maker Craft author and Illustrator Clare Youngs
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