Inspiration is all around

Inspiration is all around

 Well summer solstice is just under a week a way, and yet here we are enjoying another faltering English summer that is full of sun and showers and a healthy slice of windy weather as well. Oh, and to quote a famous song, thunderbolt and lightening very, very...
Inspiration is all around

Hello flower!

Well, the Dracunculus might not be everyone’s cup of tea for the garden – it is known for emitting a rather foul smell, after all. But this exotic plant can add great ornamental interest to a garden . . .  and we can assure you it is certainly equally...
Inspiration is all around

Timely reminder

They say that time goes faster as you get older.  OK, so there is no point in pontificating . . . let’s go for plain English. Yes it does. You can throw all the statistics and science that you like – but time does go faster. Well, OK, in deference to the...
Inspiration is all around

Order in the chaos

It’s been a busy two or three weeks and while we haven’t managed to put an update on here, we have been quietly working away in the background to get the J Needlecraft business well and truly underway. Fabric and threads were ordered and have arrived...
Inspiration is all around

Spring Daffodils?

We’re working very hard to try to complete the design of a daffodil bookmark in time for Easter. We were inspired to do this by the anticipated arrival of Spring – after all it was the Spring equinox last week. Well, as everyone in the UK now knows, winter...
Inspiration is all around

Springing into action

It’s been a busy few days and we have just collected the kit covers for 16 designs that are now ready to go. Hence why we’ve called this ‘Springing into action’ . . . it’s the only spring that’s going to happen here! Not sure what...