hand embroidery
Ice cream hoops for Love Embroidery
It was a pleasure to stitch these fun, textural ice cream hoops for Love Embroidery Magazine! It’s the perfect summer project.
Top 50 Stitches with Love Embroidery
So today I’m really excited to tell you more about the recent big commission I was working on. It was this Top 50 Stitches booklet with Love Embroidery magazine, and it’s free with Issue 16 in July!
Crafty Colour Palette #6
Crafty Colour Palette #6 is inspired by David Seaman’s amazing technicolour jerseys from Euro ’96. If you haven’t seen them, they are a sight to behold and they definitely don’t make them as cool as this anymore!
Brick and cross stitch hoop
This week in The Happy Stitch Project, we’re stitching a really fun pattern on this brick and cross stitch hoop. Yay! It’s simple to stitch and is actually really therapeutic once you get into it.
Mastering the bullion knot
This week in The Happy Stitch Project, we’ll be mastering the bullion knot! 💪 I tried these a couple of weeks ago and failed. It was so frustrating, and I thought that I might not ever be able to stitch them! But I’ve actually worked out why that is now (after a big discussion with…
How to stitch a cable stitch
This week in The Happy Stitch Project, I’m showing you how to stitch a cable stitch. It’s a bit like stem stitch from week 8, but you alternate the sides of the loops when making the stitches and this gives a slightly thicker effect.
Happy Stitch hoop templates
The Happy Stitch Project is in full swing, and in today’s post I’m sharing these Happy Stitch hoop templates with permission from Helen from @unicornfactoryuk!
The Happy Stitch Project
Welcome to The Happy Stitch Project! I’m so excited to be launching today – yay! This whole project basically came about when I got stuck in a creative rut a couple of months ago, and I knew that I wanted to come up with something to get me out of it. It was during a…
Crafty Colour Palette #5
It has been a long, long time since I put together a new colour palette! I had such a lot of fun creating Crafty Colour Palette #5, which is inspired by my garden.
Introducing Colourful Fun Embroidery!
I am so excited to be sharing this post today. Introducing Colourful Fun Embroidery – my first book!
Life in lock down
Well, I wasn’t expecting to write a post with the title ‘Life in lock down’ in 2020, but I’m guessing that this is pretty much how we all feel about the current situation!
My new look website launch
It has been a week since my new look website launch, and I can’t believe how that time has flown! I had intended to write this blog post a little sooner to coincide with the launch, but life happens and it kept getting pushed back. I’m in full-on market prep mode for our Etsy Made…
My goodness, what a year (and a bit)!
In 2018 I intended to write on my blog a lot more, and I set myself a little target of 4 blog posts a month (or something like that). It worked for a little while but then life got in the way. My goodness, what a year (and a bit)!
Indie Rollercoaster Keep Going hoop
I was really excited to share my Indie Rollercoaster Keep Going hoop last week!
Crafty Colour Palette #4
Crafty Colour Palette #4 is inspired by the logo of my favourite social media, Instagram.
Hand embroidered social media icons
I had an idea to make some hand embroidered social media icons for my blog absolutely ages ago, and this week I finished them!
A natter with Sally Mayer from Sew Sal
Although we tend to moan about the algorithm quite a lot, you can’t deny that Instagram is an amazing source of inspiration! Today I am delighted to bring you a natter with Sally Mayer from Sew Sal.
Brynn and Co LOVE embroidery hoop
I am a huge fan of Amanda Bryde’s work, and the Brynn and Co LOVE embroidery hoop has to be my favourite.