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This month, it’s all about building up confidence here at Love Embroidery – so whether you’re a complete beginner or seasoned stitcher, you’ll find a host of exciting new ways to take your skills to the next level. Discover inspirational hoop art, qu

Singing with colour and dressed in sunshine, we simply adore this beautiful hoop art by Julie Stuart, AKA Clever Poppy. It has us dreaming of hazy summer days spent mindfully stitching projects that soothe the soul. Patterns such as this Cloudy Dream

Consider this an invitation to feel bold and fearless this month – so go on, play around with colour palettes, revamp your wardrobe and feel confident enough to try some new stitching techniques. We believe you can achieve anything with the right int

THIS CLASSIC LOTUS DESIGN IS QUICK AND EASY TO STITCH ONTO CLOTHING OR BAGS ADD THIS PRETTY FLOURISH TO A PAIR OF OLD JEANS TO GIVE THEM AN INSTANT LIFT Sammy is the founder, designer and maker behind Paraffle Embroidery, an online pattern, kit and h

Like many of us, Cassandra Dias – the fibre artist behind these striking landscape hoops – turned to embroidery as an escape during the past 18 months. What started out as a simple, mindful hobby quickly turned into an artform. Cassandra’s landscape

• Denim jacket• DMC stranded cotton: 1 skein each of blanc (white), 33 (purple), 310 (black), 352 (salmon), 503 (light green), 598 (bright turquoise), 729 (gold), 778 (pink), 782 (dark orange), 904 (green), 951 (beige) and 3852 (light orange)• Embroi

Many of us turned to arts and crafts for comfort over the past 18 months, but for interior designer and artist Anna Angiel and her husband Piotr – known collectively as Angiels Art – it was a source of great inspiration, too. “Once the pandemic hit a

TIGER FUR Fur: Long and Short Stitch, black, dark orange, light orange, white, 6 strands TIGER EYES Pupil: Long and Short Stitch, black, 6 strands Iris: Satin Stitch, beige, 6 strands LARGE LEAVES Leaves: Split Stitch, green, 6 strands LEAFY SPRIGS S

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• Felt: 20x20cm, white and dark grey• Stranded cotton: 1 skein each of apricot, black, blue, light blue, green, light green, olive green and turquoise• Embroidery hoop: 15cm diameter• Machine cotton: grey• 1.5cm wide grosgrain ribbon: 150cm long• Jum

• Cotton fabric: 55x50cm, yellow and light yellow• Cotton fabric strips: patterned• Stranded cotton: 1 skein each of apricot, blue, dark brown, pink, yellow and light yellow• Felt: 21x30cm, mint and grass green• Toy stuffing• Glue gun• Twig: 18cm lon

Prepare your sewing machine by attaching a freemotion embroidery or darning foot. Next, drop the feed dogs – the mechanism that grips and pulls fabric through your sewing machine. Before you begin working with your machine, though, start with test fa

• Cotton fabric: 20x20cm, teal• Stranded cotton: 1 skein each of cream, bright green, dark green, lilac, pink and yellow• Embroidery hoop: 15cm diameter• Seed beads: brown• Basic embroidery kit Backstitch, French Knot, Lazy Daisy Stitch, Satin Stitch

TRACING Place light-coloured and fine fabrics over the design and trace over it. For thicker or dark-coloured fabrics a light source such as a window or lightbox makes this process much simpler. TRANSFER PENS AND PENCILS Choose a colour that will sho

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Simone Saunders is a textile artist based in Calgary, Alberta. Her colourful art makes use of hand tufting and punch needle techniques to explore themes of diaspora, ancestorship and Black womanhood. Where did this piece, Lady Justice, begin? In Febr

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