Woven picots are new for me – the freestanding version is very cool. All you need is a pin to keep the threads in place and then you can weave shapes in the air ✨
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Pink and red embroidered gerberas and five petal flowers.
Stitch samples in teals and sage greens. Heavy chain stitch, double knot stitch, open chain, Pekinese stitch, brick stitch.
Ideas for new designs are all over the place - having a stitch around with some of them to see if anything sticks.
A row of embroidered gerberas in a three inch hoop.
Delighted with these gerberas 🤩 Having endless fun stitching up my new designs 🌸🌸
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A bit of embroidery in real time 🩵
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Embroidered prairie mallow in a three inch hoop.
Embroidered cow parsley in a three inch hoop.
I’m stitching my new designs on scraps of fabric to see how they look – loving the results 🌸
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Embroidery sticker with 4 gerberas. Green stems stitched, one flower stitched in deep pink thread.
Stitching up a few more flowers - l I’ll keep you posted 🌸
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16 small cottage garden style embroidery stickers.
Small embroidered posy of pink + white flowers.
3 embroidered lavender stems in long grass.
Embroidered black-eyed Susans on a jeans pocket.
Tiny delights 🤩 I’ve got a new pack of 16 very wee flower stickers 🌸These designs don’t take long to stitch at all – perfect for a quick embroidery snack (of course that’s a thing 😄) ✨
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Black-eyed Susans embroidered on a jeans pocket.
Something stitchy this way comes…
Tiny flower designs on tracing paper.
New designs new designs! 🤩 There are too many ideas bubbling out of my mind, but some of them are behaving themselves and taking shape. A new pack of super dainty flowers is arriving soon 🌼🌸🌼
Simple embroidered floral scroll.
Another busy month means another newsletter on its way with plenty of embroidery chat. Come and gather round! (by which I mean sign up to get news of my embroidery doings and a 10% discount while you’re at it) ✨
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Snowdrop embroidery stickers - 10 designs.
The snowdrops will be with us for a few weeks longer – the daffodils and crocuses are popping up for a changing of the guard 🪻
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Simple embroidered floral scroll.
The perfect embroidery project for a beginner 🌸
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This open lace blackwork pattern is one of my favourites. I loved watching it emerge through every tiny stitch ✨
I finished this blackwork sampler a couple of years ago – it took me about 8 months.
Check out my blackwork playlist to see how this sampler emerged from a sea of plain linen:
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Embroidery has ways of bringing variety and added interest to designs. One of those techniques is padded satin stitch – for adding a bit of extra dimension and texture while looking all neat and satisfying at the same time ✨
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Here’s how I stitched my flower swirl pattern 🌸 🌿
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Printable embroidery patterns are versatile and really easy to use 🤩
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Embroidered china fragments - different shades of blue thread on white linen. Gold threads used to mimic kintsugi repairs.
If you have a curiosity about embroidery and what sort of projects a textile artist might get up to when they’re not doom-scrolling on social media, I have this monthly newsletter for you 💙🤍💙
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Deep pink hellebore flower.
Hellebore flowers at last 🤩 Winter colour is always welcome and these hardy plants are superb 💕
Hans Holbein the Younger painted plenty of royal patrons dripping in expensive embroidered clothes.
This reversible double running stitch was showcased exquisitely in his paintings and is now called Holbein stitch.
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Superb work, thank you for highlighting it. People don’t get to do whatever they want.
Magnificent 🤩
Transferring an embroidery design to fabric can be fiddly, footery and time consuming.
If you’ve not tried stick and stitch embroidery patterns before, they are brilliantly simple and unfussy 🤩
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Printable meadow flower embroidery patterns.
I see the weather forecast for the west of Scotland is cold and grey for weeks 🌧️
Which is why printable snippets are so awesome 🌼 Getting lost in a summer meadow sounds like the place to be right now 🌿
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Snowdrop embroidery patterns.
Naturally we all want snowdrops anyway – but these digital patterns aren’t subject to custom tariffs so even better 🥳
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Snowdrop cluster in a flower bed.
Snowdrops hiding in a far corner of the garden. This is as close as I can get without damaging the shrubs in the flower bed 🌿
For snowdrops any time of year, I’ve got printable embroidery designs. Perfect for a bit of stitchy decoration 🌿
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Embroidered china fragments - different shades of blue thread on white linen. Gold threads used to mimic kintsugi repairs.
It’s nearly the end of January so it’ll soon be time to send out an update on all my stitchy doings. If you’re not already signed up to my monthly newsletter, come along and see what my behind-the-scenes chat is like and get a 10% discount while you’re at it ✨
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Pile of printer paper and sketch books.
It’s brainstorming season at Sweet Thorn HQ. Picture me running around with a butterfly net to capture all my random stitchy thoughts + get them sketched out 🦋
As with all embroidery projects, my mind is always racing ahead of where I actually am.
I’m deliberately making myself slow down to find out what works. I’ll be starting a design soon, but I’ve only just finished experimenting with threads and stitches 🤍💙💛
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Embroidered china fragments - different shades of blue thread on white linen. Gold threads used to mimic kintsugi repairs.
I’ve reached 2k subscribers on YouTube 🎉 Quite chuffed about that 🥳 Thank you to everyone who’s following my embroidery projects and stitch tutorials 💕✨
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