A cat in a bowler hat, a jar filled with hearts, and a pair of lungs blooming with sunflowers: Stella Caraman, founder of embroidery business, Why Knot Stitches, designs a beautiful variety of wild and wonderful patterns for stitchers of all abilities.
Stella may now be a recognised name in the stitching community (Why Knot’s 154k Instagram followers will attest to that) but fabric and thread wouldn’t have been found in her first creative tool kit: the designer’s passion for stitching grew out of a decade-long career in illustration. In 2017,