As so often happens when I am really, really busy I manage to get completely side-tracked...
I love designing for kits and classes but it is nice to stitch just for me from time to time and there is something I have been burning to do for a very, very long time. Embroidered pictures.
What I have in mind is something a little more... impressionistic, perhaps?
I have had this postcard (a picture by Pete Dobre, a very talented Australian landscape photographer) for years. I realise that to some the Australian outback look barren and empty, but I love it. Yes lush forests, pristine beaches and green rolling hills are lovely, but there is something about the outback that gets under my skin. The size of the sky, the rough and tough nature of the vegetation and the red, red colours of the dirt. I want to stitch that...
...and I know full well that I don't really have time to do it at the moment, but I started anyway.
Anna x