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    sew your own

    Mar 02, 2021 5 minutes

    I was born and raised in Oregon in the US and grew up loving nature and the curiosities of the natural world. I now live in Seattle with my young family and feel so moved by the water and mountains that surround us here. I draw inspiration from the landscape – from grand, sweeping scenes to small flowers that grow in concrete cracks – and I combine these natural elements with influences from interior design to make embroidery patterns that give a sense of nature’s beautiful colours and shapes. I hope you find the methodical movements of pulling a needle and thread through fabric as meditative and soothing as I do.

    STITCHES EXPLAINED

    Split stitch

    Bring your needle up through the fabric at A and reinsert it down through the fabric at B. Bring your needle back up through C, splitting the existing stitch in half with your needle. Reinsert your needle

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