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Beautiful Bee-eater

Nicky Perryman / December 12, 2015

I’ve tried to recapture the sense of decoration and opulence I experience while visiting the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. There […]

I love sparrows, the sound of them chirping in garrulous clouds in bushes and thickets and under house eves. I

Shimmer shimmer shimmer. It’s taking forever to “sequinize” this peacock embroidery.

I’m still obsessed with grasses and tall flower spikes. I don’t think it’s going to go away any time soon.

I only found out about “World Embroidery Day” from the Mahila Community on facebook a few days ago – it

Stitches are like plants: they grow organically if you let them, springing forth from the fertile ground of furrowed fabric.

The weather has been so warm and sunny recently (hip hip hooray!) that I’ve been feeling the need to use

In recent days, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking (not always a good thing!) but this time it’s been

Today I submitted my offering to the Open Exhibition at the Midlands Art Centre in Birmingham (MAC). The submission process

My first ever published embroidery tutorial has come out in the summer edition of Workshop on the Web! I’ve chosen

Here’s an update of my peacock embroidery. It is proving one of those embroideries that never seems to be quite

Nicky Perryman / November 22, 2012

[wpg] I’ve been planning a large peacock embroidery involving the whole peacock not just the imagery of tail feathers. I