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Choosing the Flowers: a hand embroidery kit by Caroline Zoob

What's in the kit?

  • A unique hand embroidery kit by Caroline Zoob Designs, suitable for all levels.
  • The design, printed by hand, on a generous piece of antique linen.
  • A printed thread card, either loaded with threads, or without threads, depending on which option you select (see below).
  • A full-colour card folder printed with very clear, comprehensive instructions and inspiring illustrations.

"Opening a Caroline Zoob embroidery kit is like Christmas".

This lovely image by Janine Pope was originally created by her in appliqué and stitch, and later in watercolour.

Price range: £35.00 through £58.00

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Additional Information

To complete the embroidery you will need an embroidery hoop, ideally large enough to contain the whole embroidery (8”) so that you did not squash your stitching, some size 8 or 9 embroidery needles and a pair of sharp embroidery scissors.

Step-by-step instructions for flowers like this, at this scale, are impossible. They overlap and interweave, as flowers should. I have included some annotated sketches to help you. The thread card gives you details of the threads you need to stitch the version on the front of the kit. If you decide to change any or all of these, I suggest you amend the drawing accordingly and load your chosen threads onto the right hole in the card, and then the instructions will make sense.

You can download my ‘Favourite Stitch’ cards free of charge here, or visit the new RSN Stitchbank a fabulous new online resource for anyone wanting to learn a new stitch.

The price includes tracked shipping to all parts of your selected location.

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PLEASE NOTE

Update for US customers

2 September 2025

Just a brief update to say that  Royal Mail and Parcelforce have merged and come up with a fantastic new system. It just requires some serious tweaks to the website, so if US customers could just hold off for a few more days while I ascertain precisely where we stand, and my website developer implements the changes which will enable us to send kits and journals ‘fully landed’, with the customer seeing the duty paid at the checkout. The Stitcher’s Journal is free of duty. My embroidery kits bear 11.4%. My bundles of used fabrics are also free of duty. So we are just setting up accounts and integrating the website, and I am very hopeful that any price increases will be minimal.

I am taking the opportunity to re-stock the website at the same time, so that we can re-open with some new things on offer. I am also working on Issue 26 of The Stitcher’s Journal to come out later this month.

Changes can be unsettling, but sometimes, once one gets to grips with them, things don’t look so bad so I just want to reassure my US customers that it is not all doom and gloom.

A newsletter will be going out as soon as everything is set up. I am also confident that I can soon open up to the EU again; I have an online meeting with a Product Safety Compliance Company in which I hope to demonstrate that neither The Stitcher’s Journal nor my embroidery kits pose a danger to anyone. 

Thank you for your patience and supportive messages, each one just spurs me on, even after a long day buried in the Harmonised Tariff Schedule, which actually makes the most fascinating and distracting reading!

With very best wishes,
Caroline