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Stitching has long fascinated me. Maybe due to the early influence of Maggie Lechie’s needlework pictures framed in my family home or the white linen table cloths with neat embroidery stitches done by my Mother when she was young. Either way stitching fascinates me.
Stitching, as a general term, encompasses anything from the practical – dressmaking, quilting and darning, to the aesthetic, for example embroidery – with a plethora of different types of stitches – yet there are fundamental similarities to all forms: There is a front and back; an element of male and female; there is a sense of continuity as the thread is pulled through...