from the editor
CHOICE CAN BE A WONDERFUL THING; a meal in a restaurant, a lipstick colour or an ice-cream flavour – choosing one can be lots of fun. But what do you do when you just can’t make a choice or there are too many irresistible options available? Luckily, choosing an embroidery project does not require the immediate response expected in other situations and you can spend as long as you like deciding which of the projects in this issue you would like to tackle first. If a little bit of glitter catches your eye, you will find four projects that utilise metal threads in very different ways. An elegant study of a flowering pea plant borrows unusual and exciting techniques from the 16th century, combining colourful silk and gold threads: traditional…