The World of Cross Stitching

Amanda Gregory

How did you begin cross stitching?

While at primary school in Luton, I remember stitching a sampler of the names of the six wives of Henry VIII for a school project so this would have been my very first stitching.

How did you begin designing?

When I was at Art College in Taunton in the late 1970s, I studied Fashion Design and Pattern Cutting. One of my tutors taught using watercolours. This led to my interest in watercolours and I went on to develop a style

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