Love Embroidery

Grab a cuppa, find a cosy spot and get ready to be inspired by all of the amazing stitching in this issue! We’re kicking things off with our elegant cover star –a sumptuously tactile wall hanging by Lucy Freeman, which is embellished with bright foli

Snowy scenes, cosy fabrics, cool colour palettes… we’re leaning hard into winter this issue, and delighting in the snippets of peace and joy our hobby brings in between frosty morning commutes, looming deadlines, sniffly noses and getting our homes r

ADD CRAFT-THEMED MOTIFS TO PLAIN TEES FOR A QUICK AND EASY WEEKEND PROJECT KEEP YOUR SHARPS TIDY IN A NEEDLE BOOK ADORNED WITH SEWING-INSPIRED DETAILS Sam is an embroidery designer and tattoo artist from Berkshire. She has been designing sewing proje

Dreaming of a winter break spent racing down the ski slopes? Then look no further than this beginner-friendly hoop design from Hawthorne Handmade – no chalet booking required! Part of Hawthorne’s Wonderful Women kit collection, the pattern comes with

Cotton fabric: 25x25cm, light blue Stranded cotton: 1 skein each of beige, blue, bright blue, dark blue, royal blue, very dark blue, brown, cream, gold, pink, white, yellow, light yellow Embroidery hoop: 18cm diameter Basic embroidery kit Backstitch,

C rafting designs that tell a story, drawing inspiration from nature – and sometimes imagining things that don’t exist, but that she would like to see… That’s what Elahe Amoupour, founder of embroidery pattern business, Momentoell, loves about stitch

Knitted jumper, cream Cotton fabric: 30x42cm, 28x40cm (any colour) Stranded cotton: 1 skein each of 600 (dark pink), 758 (peach), 798 (blue), 899 (pink), 972 (yellow) 3325 (light blue), 3750 (purple) Tapestry wool: 1 skein each of bright blue, navy b

Cotton twill fabric: 25x25cm, pale sage x2; 25x25cm, beige x2 (for lining) Stranded cotton: 1 skein each of blue, green, dark green, purple, yellow Embroidery hoop: 15cm diameter 3mm leather drawstring: 50cm x2 Sewing machine with matching thread (pa

Cotton fabric: 25x25cm, natural Stranded cotton: 1 skein each of blue, light blue, blue-grey, light bluegrey, dark brown, very dark brown, green, dark green, light green, grey, light grey, stone grey, very light grey, lilac, pink, light pink, terraco

Visit our website www.gathered.how for a step-by-step guide to French Knots Poplin cotton fabric: 25x25cm, sage green Stranded cotton: 1 skein each of beige, black, brown, dark brown, apple green, dark green, sage green, lavender, lilac, blush pink,

Shirt: grey Stranded cotton: 1 skein each of blue, dark blue, green, mint green, dark grey, mustard, yellow Embroidery hoop: 15cm diameter Lightweight iron-on interfacing Sewing machine with matching thread (optional) Basic embroidery kit Fishbone St

Monks cloth: 56x66cm Heavyweight cotton calico fabric: 28x40cm, 23x40cm, white Bulky (chunky) weight yarn: 100g each of black, dark blue, light blue, green, light lilac, white Frame measuring 46x56cm Thick felt: 4x38cm x4 (optional) 5cm wide paper pa

Miesje is a designer, maker and artist living in and running her embroidery business, The Pattern Library from, Southsea, England. Her passion for textiles has led to an exploration of a diverse range of techniques, including patchwork, screen printi

01 Transfer the design from the template onto the fabric using your preferred method. We used a heat erasable pen and a light source. Then mount the fabric into a hoop with the design central and the fabric taut like a drum. Begin by stitching the bl

Spread a little machine-stitched magic this month with our two winterinspired makes. Talia Bills-Moore is up first, kicking off your creativity with a clever magnetic fishing game (p58). Finished with sparkly sequin scales, her friendly fabric fish c

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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. Your sewing machine manual should tell you how to do this, but there i

For the majority of the projects in this issue you will need the following items. There are different types available, so read on to choose the correct materials for each project. Fabric Thread Needles Scissors Embroidery hoop Transfer pens/pencils E

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 s

Page 16 Pattern at 50%, enlarge by 200% Thank you for making these projects from Love Embroidery. The copyright for these templates belongs to the designer of the project (and/or Our Media). The magazine and all of its contributors work extremely har

W hen Irwan set up MomentsMade back in 2022, he didn’t have any stitching experience. Today, he’s the owner of a super successful embroidery business... I’m Irwan (sounds like ‘ear one’!) and I was born and raised in Indonesia. When I was a teenager

Thank you for making these projects from Love Embroidery. The copyright for these templates belongs to the designer of the project (and/or Our Media). The magazine and all of its contributors work extremely hard to create projects for you to enjoy, s