I was sent some vintage embroidery books by Ellen, thank you! They are from Holland, and date from the 1970's. I love looking through them and dreaming of having my own cross-stitched tea-cosy. The designs are really beautiful and intricate- geometric but with feeling, if that makes sense. I love them. I'm thinking that one of these European cross-stitch patterns will be a great project over the summer holiday.
I noticed that quite a few of the cross-stitched designs were worked in blue and white- and inspired by this, I tried embroidering some jasmine from the garden onto blue linen- I realised that I almost always stick to the same old colour palette of green and natural. But I like the white on blue.
