The Fruit Cake Recipe

In case you are wondering what on earth a fruit cake recipe has to do with a textiles blog, let me hasten to explain! In the collection of tea-towel design on Spoonflower, in the Amanda Jane Textiles studio (here), there are four based on recipes from my grandmother’s 1930s-1940s recipe book. All the recipes areContinueContinue reading “The Fruit Cake Recipe”

Summer quilting, embroidery and knitting

Today is the late August Bank Holiday in England and Wales and the weather is gloriously hot and sunny (which is not always the case in the North-East of England and is often not the case on a Bank Holiday!) So I felt that this week’s post should have a summery textile theme. My quiltContinueContinue reading “Summer quilting, embroidery and knitting”