My mother, Ailie Worster, who has died aged 86, was briefly a BBC announcer and then a secretary in the advertising world before moving into the full-time job of bringing up her four children.
Though never professionally trained, she was also a dressmaker, an upholsterer and an interior designer; she was also skilled at knitting, needlepoint and tapestry. Creative, kind, funny and frugal, she was a believer in the William Morris theory that you should “have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful”.
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