Sue Blomley

This year Sue herself will be leading the class activity.

I was born in Epping, yes, an Essex girl, though I've never owned a pair of white high heeled shoes.   I went to school in several villages as we moved through Buckinghamshire every 4 years or so.   However for my secondary education I attended ‘The Cedars' in Leighton Buzzard before leaving to join Barclays Bank as a lowest form.   I worked there until I married and then spent the first two and a half years attached to the British Embassy in Rangoon, Burma. We now have 4 sons and 6 grandchildren. 

My mother was an avid and skilful needlewoman and I learnt most of my skills from her.   We all learnt to knit and I knitted my first jumper at the age of 8.   Since then I have continued with my embroidery education and have made more pictures than I care to count.   However it wasn't until I started attending classes in America and was introduced to three dimensional work that I found a form of embroidery to challenge me again.   Since then I have started designing my own work usually for my own use, though occasionally I have taught a class. My husband and I moved to France on our retirement and that is where we still are, when we're not dashing off to some other exotic encounter, or arranging an embroidery seminar.