A quick blog post today to announce my next Thread Talk with The Embroiderers Guild - The Journey to Design. Saturday February 1st at 2pm. Here is the link to book a ticket - www.eventbrite.co.uk The tickets are £7.50 and the lecture will be available On Demand for a year after the live event. I will be talking about why I am so passionate about helping my students create their own, original designs.  If you didn't catch my lecture - Learning Through Play in September, it is available On Demand here - again for £7.50 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-demand-thread-talks-kim-thittichai-learning-through-play That's it - just a quick post today.

A beautiful Suzani embroidery  It is now 111 days till I leave for my 2 tours of Uzbekistan. The original tour sold out so fast, we had to add another, which will start on March 23rd. I get breathless with excitement just thinking about it . .  Since my move to Ireland I haven't been saying Yes! to too many things, I wanted to settle into my new environment and not get too distracted. And then came Covid, so I REALLY settled in. So when Isha from Aahilya Holidays first asked me to lead a tour for her, I said no.  You may remember that I led 4 tours to Jaipur with Jamie from Coluricious in the early days of tutors of and artists leading travel tours. I think I felt that I had done with travel and I was happy to be settled where I was. Discover new foods   However, I have always dreamed of exploring Uzbekistan, the colours, the textures and the general romance of the country. But never, ever, thought I would be able to actually go. So when Isha suggested we go to Uzbek...