“I went along to a day workshop called “Embroider your garden”. Our group of eight participants included people with loads of experience and others, like me, who didn’t know what an embellishing machine was or that you can do machine embroidery on all sewing machines! Jan quickly put us all at our ease, took us through the techniques involved step by step and didn’t once lose her cool when we broke needles or changed our minds about what materials we wanted to use. She provided a rainbow treasure-trove of fabrics and threads and we all had a fantastic time producing stitched pictures of gardens, or in my case, an attempt at a stitched vegetable! As Jan said to us at 4pm: “Never say you can’t do something.” We can all surprise ourselves, and have fun in the process.”