Summer Pattern Release
new patterns + summer in the studio
Summer is in full swing in my little home: popsicles on the front steps, dinners on the patio, bug bites, cool mornings in the garden, hot afternoons in the studio, thunderstorms rolling in every day around 3pm. With a break from homeschooling, I get a little more time to spend in the studio, and this summer I’m using that time to create garden pattern series. The first up is a series of three different flowers growing around my house: cosmos, blue flax, and poppies.
About the patterns
These are “thread painting” patterns which means they teach you the basics of thread painting to create your flowers. They are inspired by the style of botanical illustration and include the label of the plant you are stitching. I created them with beginners and experienced stitchers in mind with varying degrees of project length and complexity. The simplest one (and best place to start if you’re a beginner) is the Blue Flax. The next level up is the Cosmos, and the most complex piece is the Icelandic Poppy. You can purchase these patterns individually or as a set.
Each pattern includes a:
Stitch Guide
Embroidery 101
Painting with Thread Tips
Color and Stitch Guide
Supply List
Step by Step Instructions
Printable Pattern
I am so excited to see you stitching these flowers over the summer months! They are perfect to bring on long car rides or a day at the sea. If you are a paid subscriber, make sure to share your works in progress in our Stitch Club Chat!
Originals Available
If stitching isn’t your thing, you can buy the originals that the patterns are based on! I have a lot of special pieces available right now in the shop; from landscape pieces to flowers and trees. I rarely have these many works available!
A visual inventory of summer…
Preorder my book!
You can preorder my book, The Stitched Landscape. (coming October 7). This isn’t your typical embroidery book. While it has plenty of landscape embroidery patterns, it is so much more than a book of patterns. Instead I lead you into my world of art-making, sharing the most intimate details of how I came to where I am now as an artist (and a mother), how I find inspiration, how I came across my own style. I also share in depth how-tos on all of the unusual embroidery techniques that I’ve developed over the years along with the most basic embroidery techniques.
I admire your embroidery art. I am from Albania, and handmade crafts such as embroidery, crochet, and knitting are part of our tradition. I work a lot and truly appreciate the wonderful value of this art. I sincerely wish you great success.
Heading over to buy a pattern now…I just can’t decide which to get because I love them all! This will be my first time embroidering and I’m excited to create something like this.