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Friendship Through Stitch: a celebration in hand embroidery

What is included?

  • A fun hand embroidery kit celebrating friendship through stitching, a collaboration with Janine Pope. and perfect for a group of stitching friends to work on together.
  • A generous piece of antique French linen roughly 30 cm x 30 cm, hand-printed with the design.
  • A thread card, either empty or loaded with all the threads you will need to complete the kit, depending on which option you select.
  • A folder with instructions and helpful and inspiring illustrations.
This kit celebrates friendship through stitching together and was commissioned from illustrator Janine Pope for my celebration of World Embroidery Day in 2024. The embroidered text is optional and not included in the printed design. There is a lot of scope for personalising the design, especially if you select the 'no threads' option.

Additional Information

Price range: £32.00 through £45.00

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One of my greatest pleasures has been to make and observe the close friendships that grow from spending time stitching together at workshops, so I have called this kit Friendship through Stitch.

I have always tried to leave scope for stitchers to bring their own ideas to a design, and as I was working on this piece I realised just how many different ways one might approach it. So the kit instructions will tell you how to do what I have done, but I have given stitched alternatives for the elements I have painted, as well as all the threads and instructions for the meadow.  I wanted this piece to be colourful because when I look around on World Embroidery Day at King John’s Nursery, there are flowers on the tables, piles of antique fabrics and displays of thread and the riot of colour in the nursery and romantic garden. It was for this reason that I chose to embroider a meadow in front of the tablecloth drop: we always sit outside under the ancient oak tree, and there is a glorious meadow in the garden. It is always a joyful day and I hope that this kit conveys that.

I used some paint, but you do not have to do this and the kit covers both options. If you choose the ‘with threads’ option there are threads on the cards for the areas I have painted. If you think you may want to use a completely different colour palette, then the ‘without threads’ option would be better for you. You will receive an empty version of the thread card which you can overwrite with your own colours. As usual, there is a drawn pattern which you can also annotate with any changes.

The price reflects the size of the embroidery and number of colours.

If you are interested in attending our World Embroidery Day celebration in 2026, drop me an email.

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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