Back to normal again – I hope!

Well – can you hear that huge sigh of relief? My amazing computer-wizard husband has finally got my computer and my digitising software up and running again. I won’t bore you with all the problems we’ve had but I would just like to say VERY many thanks to our dealer, David Drummond in Edinburgh, and also to a very helpful man in the Brother software department, for all their efforts on my behalf So – life should soon be back to normal (touch wood).

I’m weeks behind with all my work, but the first thing I need to do is get February’s free design up and running. So here is a Jacobean-style Tree of Life, with a little deer at the bottom. It’s a big design – 5 x 7 inches (130 x 180 mm) and about 28,500 stitches. If you would like me to send it to you (.pes format only, I’m afraid) just drop a comment to the blog asking for it and I’ll get it out to you

A Jacobean Tree of Life

If you do stitch it, please don’t pay too much attention to the colour suggestions I make in the instruction sheet. These old Jacobean designs were traditionally stitched in in a range of different colours, probably depending on what the needlewoman had available in her basket at the time, so you can be very creative and adventurous in your colour selections and it will probably turn out fine

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