The poppies set the size for these wild flowers. I used size 20 thread and size 15 beads for the poppies and for these cornflowers. The petals are worked in one row (pass) and not as separate layers placed one on top of the other which would result in too many ends to hide.
This is my first blog, though a friend has been nagging me to do one for ages. I've been asked to design a wild or field poppy for a friend's daughter's wedding next year, she also wants a cornflower and daisy. This is the poppy.
My husband of 42 years died in 2006. I have three children, two daughters and a son and four grand children, one girl and three boys.
I trained as a teacher of Home Economics in the 1960s but have been interested in crafts since I was six.
I learned how to crochet and do embroidery because I wanted to make a matinee jacket for my new baby brother.
I taught myself to tat when I left school, over 40 years ago and I'm still learning.