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Try painting the bowl with undiluted white gouache.
I love to see the different ways people tackled the bowl in this design.
Courtesy of @paintedthimble, Tracey Pilling.
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White Narcissi, a hand embroidery kit featuring early Spring in a bowl of moss

What's in the kit?

  • A hand-embroidery kit featuring fresh white narcissi and silky willow buds in a bowl of moss. This design accompanied Issue 5 of The Stitcher's Journal as a Stitcher's Journal collection kit. The bowl offers scope for personal creativity, something I always like to incorporate in each of my hand embroidery kits.
  • A piece of antique French linen hand-printed in the UK by Caroline with the design.
  • A thread card loaded with all the threads you will need to complete the kit or empty if you choose 'no threads'. Some people have stitched this more than once, using yellows and creams.
  • A beautifully produced card folder printed with clear, step-by-step instructions including an actual-size drawing annotated with stitch and thread details.
  • The finished embroidery is roughly 16 x 14 cm / 6 1/2" x 5 1/2".
 

"I really enjoyed stitching this design. It was one of my early attempts at embroidery and I loved it...it took hours of stitching but the end result was so pretty!"

Additional Information

£40.00

In stock (can be backordered)

Additional Information

This kit is one that I most enjoyed designing and stitching, inspired by a bowl of white narcissi I plant every year with twigs and moss for Christmas. For me, scented white narcissi are my favourite Christmas decorations.

If you are a beginner, you will find guides to my favourite embroidery stitches in the Free Downloads section of the shop. I am self-taught and so really try to guide you through each step with my instructions. The bowl is left for you to embroider as you wish. It looks quite interesting when painted with undiluted white gouache, leaving some of the linen visible (see gallery image). Nothing to stop you stitching underneath the paint or over its surface for a ‘studio pottery’ look. You can download my FREE guide to painting on linen for embroideries in the FREE DOWNLOADS section here. 

 

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PLEASE NOTE

Update for ALL customers

27 October 2025

I am delighted to announce that we are now able to ship to the US, duty paid and, for the time being, I will absorb the duty.
 

Issue 26 of The Stitcher’s Journal has now been despatched to all overseas subscribers and you should shortly be receiving emails from Royal Mail confirming this, with a tracking number. 

The website has had to be reconfigured so that shipping is no longer included in the prices, but is rather a flat rate, set for whichever country we are sending  to — including the UK — and will be shown at the checkout.  I have of course reduced the kit prices, which used to include shipping, but I have also taken this opportunity to review my prices which have not increased to reflect the considerable increase in costs since February 2022. All in all, I think the results are fair, especially as in carrying out this exercise I realise I have been heavily subsidising the actual postage costs for the past three years.
 
Unfortunately, we are not currently able to take advantage of the Large Letter Rate for shipping to the US, but on a positive note (!)  all orders are now tracked and the flat rate has a greater weight allowance.
 
I will be adding some new kits, bundles and vintage finds and fabrics to the site today, Monday 27th October and through the week, and I really hope things will run smoothly now. 
 
Thank you so much for your support and patience, it means more than I can say.
 
With very best wishes,

Caroline