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at school when I couldn’t understand why disappoint if the end result fails to match
making a lampshade had to take a whole personal expectation. You may not be the
term. I like to take a very fluid approach best at design and drawing, but you can
to any project and while I almost always still be a whizz with a needle and some
will have an end image in mind, I will let thread. Don’t get hung up on the latest
the work grow organically. It’s a journey, a technique or product – simply find what
learning curve and of course the rules are works for you. I also believe that if at first
always there to be broken. you don’t succeed with a project, cut it
I do enjoy working in sketchbooks, but I up and reinvent it – then nothing is ever a
can find a tiny thumbnail sketch just as waste of time.
useful as a full series of drawings. I am certainly no purist and while I enjoy
When working with students, I tell them a little blackwork or goldwork, I certainly
not to be tied into a rigid plan or drawing go my own way with some techniques. My
as it can restrict your process and skill is really free motion embroidery which
