We caught up with Nicola after she delivered a riveting talk about samplers and the young girls who stitched them. The room was captivated, so we grabbed the opportunity to find out more about her passion and how she recreates old sampler charts to make us more thoughtful stitchers today.
“We are the custodians of needlework,” Nicola says. “There are no written records of women’s lives in so many eras. Their lives come into focus when you study a sampler. A