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A Lifelong Pair
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A Lifelong Pair: hand-embroidered white doves to symbolise long-standing love

What is included in the kit?

  • The romantic hand embroidery design by Caroline Zoob hand printed onto a piece of antique French Linen.
  • A thread card loaded with all the threads you will need to complete the design.
  • A six-panel folder printed in full colour with instructions, an actual size drawing of the design and images for inspiration.
The romantic symbolism of a pair of white doves is well-known.  As well as being a lovely image, this design could work well for a ring cushion, or as a cover for a photograph album or book for guests to sign.

"I embroidered this design for the cover of my daughter's wedding guest book. Now a  precious family heirloom."

 

Additional Information

Price range: £34.00 through £44.00

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Additional Information

If you are a novice stitcher, 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 kit contains clear and carefully checked instructions, such that even a less experienced stitcher could attempt it. I won’t lie though – there is quite a lot of Satin and padded Satin stitch!

A pair of doves is a familiar symbol for romance and longstanding love, and while stitching this design I had a favourite poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning running through my mind.

Sonnet No. 43

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

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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