On a slightly grim and dreary morning several months ago, Mary and I were rifling through a box filled to the brim with long forgotten Jennifer Pudney designs. Tasks such as the dishes and the vacuuming were shrieking to be done, but, like Pandora, the allure of this mysterious box was too strong.
Some time later, we stood surrounded with loose pieces of paper, triumphantly clutching three designs to be brought out of retirement: “The Birdwatcher”, “Dog Tired”, and “She Slipped Between Two Tall Trees”.
It was a very exciting day at Nancy’s when the canvas returned from the printer, ready to be stitched. The excitement quickly gave way to an unusual and slightly eerie silence as we all became engrossed in stitching out each aspect of the designs. You could have heard a pin drop (in both a literal and a metaphorical sense- we do drop a lot of pins.)
All that was left to do now was photographing the samples, putting the images on postcards, and writing up instructions for the next person to stitch the design out.
We are so pleased to introduce the three new members of the Jennifer Pudney Range. They’ve taken up a lot of my headspace over the last few months. They’ve kind of become my children. They’re quiet, two-dimensional children, and they’re made from stranded cotton rather than flesh and blood- but they’re my children all the same. Tess
