In celebration of International Women’s Day, I’m teaming up with jewellery brand Astrid & Miyu for a week packed full of female led career, wellness and fitness events across their London stores. Join me for a hands on embroidery workshop where you’ll learn the basics of embroidery and decorate a bag with colourful cotton threads….
International Women’s Day Workshop
To celebrate International Womens’ Day this year we’ll be running an embroidery workshop inside the light and lovely glasses store Ollie Quinn (Spitalfields). During the two-hour workshop, you’ll learn how to hand sew using colourful threads to decorate a small cotton pouch. You’re also more than welcome to bring in your own item of clothing…
A Delicious Craziness
Ana Clara Piccolo is an embroidery artist from Brazil currently living in Stuttgart, Germany. How did you get into embroidery? In 2016 I moved to Germany with my husband and couldn’t speak the language so I took lessons. I decided in that year I wanted to learn something new – besides German (which was difficult)….
Thread Meadows
Nadine Reilly is an embroidery designer from Newcastle, Australia. How did you get into embroidery? I’m completely self taught, you could say I graduated from the YouTube School of Stitchcraft and Wizardry. I first discovered embroidery via a local artist on Instagram and thought I’d try it on a complete whim by purchasing their beginners…
Contemporary Embroidery by Carly
Carly Owens is a contemporary hand embroidery artist and freelance designer. She has previously studied Jacobean crewelwork and goldwork embroidery at the Royal School of Needlework, couture tambour beading with Hand & Lock and pattern making at the Asheville School for the Apparel Arts in Asheville, North Carolina. Additionally, Carly worked as a couture embroidery…
Auburn Hoops
Auburn Hoops was created by Chelsea Nelson to give your art the frame it deserves! Their patent pending design not only allows you to display your art in style but also modernises the old fashioned embroidery hoop. How did you get into embroidery? When I was pregnant with my firstborn a friend introduced me to…
Thread Painter
Sila Gur is a Turkish embroidery designer living in Scotland with her husband and daughter. How did you get into embroidery? I have always loved to be productive and creative. I studied Fine Arts in high school, then Fashion Design in university, both in Turkey. After graduation I also studied Fashion Styling in New York. Hand…
Continuous Gold Lines
Sorcha O’Raw is an embroidery artist from Dublin, Ireland. How did you get into embroidery I got into embroidery in my last year of school. I’d done a continuous line drawing of a prop skeleton, I loved the drawing and wanted to do something more with it. I loved making things with my hands and…
From the First Stitch
Amina is a passionate stitcher and lover of nature and everything floral. She’s an embroidery blogger and proud muslim. How did you get into embroidery? I’m self-taught from scratch. My passion for hand embroidery started around 2013-2014, very unexpectedly for me. Prior to that I already had tried myself at many other crafts like patchwork, decoupage and…
Uma Made
Uma Labattut specialises in hand embroidery and slow fashion. She’s lived between Berlin, Biarritz, Istanbul and has been travelling for three years. She’s currently in Lisbon. How did you get into embroidery? I started embroidering full-time three years ago. I had just left my job in fashion marketing and I didn’t want another office job because…
Love of the Process
Ekaterina is an embroidery designer living in the south of Russia among poppy fields and rivers with her husband and two-year-old daughter. How did you get into embroidery? My grandmother always sewed for the whole family – dresses, shirts, coats, and also made wonderful embroideries. – In her house she had hand embroidered tablecloths and…
Illustrative Embroidery
Millie Sewell-Knight is an illustrator & textile artist based in South-East London, England making work inspired by fashion, folk art and the natural world. How did you get into embroidery?I taught myself to embroider when I was studying art and design at college and fell in love with it even though my first attempts were very messy!…