It took a little searching and lots of finger crossing but I finally managed to find a frame suitable for the Peacock Stumpwork. There are something I hate to buy on line, frames are one of them but I was lacking places to find one suitable and ended up finding this beauty on line. I took a chance and ordered it and I wasn't horrified at all. It's perfect!

So now I can finally say the picture is complete! 

If you wish to purchase this beauty then head over here...click me.

P.s don't forget still time to enter my little competition!

How about a Little competition?

In celebration of my branching out and joining Wow Thank You and opening another shop, I have decided that it was high time for a little competition. Once again I have a little button needlecase up for grabs and to go along with it a small set of Liberty Tana Lawn buttons. 

How does that sound?

To enter simply leave a little comment in this blog post! 

You have until Midnight on 3rd July!

Please note I won't be giving away my super sharp scissors or my fave thimble as shown in the image. As I sort of need them to make things.

Old School

Ever wonder what kicked start my love for stitching peacock feathers? When it happened? Well this little piece was my very first piece I had ever stitched where the design was the feathers. I think I either made it in my second year or during the first few months of my last year? One thing I am certain of and remember was that it was inspired by an embroidery that was hanging up on one of the walls in the workrooms. I used to walk past it every day, an angel with the most magnificent peacock feather headdress. 


The colours were amazing for such an old piece of embroidery. Now if my brain doesn't fail me it was designed by Edward Burne-Jones who had close links to the Royal School of Needlework. (If any fellow apprentice can recognise the piece or recall the one I am thinking about it used to hang near the lunch/break room, quite a long piece? And partly stitched??) I wish I could find my original notes from when I made it but anyway, I loved it and this was the product of my love for it:


A pocket mirror and little drawstring bag. Stitched in vintage silk threads on silk fabric. It was a fiddly piece to construct, in order to get it round the glass mirror tile without making it too bulky.