Easter Parade is my second of my collaborations with textile artist Janine Pope and features three of Janine’s signature stitched figures.  Illustrated here are my hand-embroidered girls (with one skirt in hand-stitched appliqué) and a version by Ingrid using the free machine embroidery stitching. Whichever way you choose to ‘dress’ the girls, and it might be a combination of both, it is such fun to work this design.

Very cleverly, the design is drawn such that the Easter motifs can be covered by stitching or appliqué without affecting the outline of the girls and their clothes, so you could ‘dress’ them in any number of ways without any reference to Easter. A lovely way to celebrate friends, bridesmaids, sisters, granddaughters.  I was very taken with the Jule Post bag that some of you may have made and it occurred to me that this design could be made into a very sweet bag to fill with wrapped eggs.

There are two options for this kit, ‘with thread’s and ‘without threads’

Option 1 ‘with threads’ consists of a 6-panel A5 instruction card with an actual size diagram for tracing, and full instructions for both methods of dressing the figures, as well as a generous piece of antique linen printed with the design.  Also enclosed is a fully-loaded thread card.Please note that thread is supplied with which to embroider the skirt on the left and not the silk shown.

Option 2

As above but the thread card is not loaded.  Note that three of the colours on the threads card are mioes called ‘pretty blues’, pretty pinks’ and ‘pretty yellows’,  and the remaining threads are colours I often use and which you may well already have.

Delivery and Postage

In both cases, the price includes postage to all areas of the United Kingdom. Customers outside the UK please see the Embroidery Kits for Overseas Customers section.

** we will  post this in  good time for Easter but the earliest we can post is Tuesday, 12 March.**