Riverdrift House really began in the far off days of the 1960s, when a little girl fell totally in love with binca and the tissue-lined boxes of the Anchor Soft Embroidery skeins locked away in the craft cupboard of Grove Primary School,Harpenden, in Hertfordshire.
The postings here in our studio blog will be intended primarily to show and share some of the more interesting work done in the design studio and in the 'backroom' of Riverdrift House, with all the finished successes, and, no doubt, several of the failures! So, for those who may like to share in how a needlework design begins, is developed and - eventually - comes to market, this may be for you...
This square cross stitch sampler is currently on the board and the very first kit we will produce for stitching on an 18 count fabric (rather than the standard 14 count). The next job will be the final decisions on the colourway(s) to offer for the kit production. The little lower case initials in the lower left of the sampler are there for personalising the sampler - and showing are my own initials for Amanda Stevenson. The sampler has been called 'Dream a Little Dream' in my design notes - it will probably stick. Some might say it marks the end of almost thirty years spent bringing up my family in Suffolk, before leaving for Cornwall last summer... but I couldn't possibly comment.... However, I do believe that may be a mirror-imaged wing of the Guildhall in Lavenham in there, winking at me, set centrally to provide the focal point!
I love your work Amanda and have recently bought from you. Regards. Pascale
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