Katie asked me to make a post about the embroidery I did when I was an undergrad in Edinburgh.

I made this pencil case for my mum. At that time I didn’t have a sewing machine so the pencil case and bag below was hand stitched and very rough. To be honest, the construction of the pencil case and the bag was very much secondary and the embroidery was where I found the fun. There was a shop a couple of doors down from the flat and when I was glum I would spend ages looking at the embroidery threads and choosing which ones to spend my beer tokens on.

I have no idea where I found the patience for all of those French knots.