Another busy weekend involving lots of textiles. We had a great evening on Friday at Leamington Embroierers Guild where we had Jean Littlejohn to deliver a talk and then a day class on the Saturday. I'm sure a lot of you are aware of Jean Littlejohn and her close work with Jan Beaney. So to start here are a few photos of her work and samples - she was very generous and let us handle these and take photos. And her sketchbooks were great. I had serious sketchbook envy. And here is the result of my day. Her suggestion to our group was to use one stitch - twisted chain stitch. To make a back ground of this in a thick thread or wool, on a cotton fabric with an open weave with a very large eyed needle - a number 14 Chenille needle. And then Bond a Web and foil was added And then more stitching. I bound some of my threads and I think this helped knock back the gold which was a little brash. We then got to play with an embellisher.