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Dreaming of Spring

What is included?

  • One of my most popular hand-embroidery designs which accompanied the very first issue of The Stitcher's Journal.
  • An actual-size drawing of the design for you to trace and transfer onto your chosen fabric.
  • Full instructions, including details of threads and stitches used.
This ia a PDF pattern, a link for which will be sent to you automatically by email after checkout. You will need a printer and A4 paper to print the pattern. The gallery images shown here may also be helpful as a reference .

Additional Information

£15.00

Additional Information

This was the first embroidery kit in the series accompanying the first eight issues of The Stitcher’s Journal. It is the kit I am most often asked to reproduce. As a pattern, it offers a lot of scope for your own interpretation in the way you fill the bowls with flowers, and if you choose to add paint to your design or not. The images, some from @jannelford on Instagram may offer some inspiration. There are also little sketches of different flowering bulbs in the comprehensive instructions. The threads used here are listed in the instructions but you may, of course, choose to use your own colours. Similarly, you could simply stitch over the flowers in the pelmet and make the pelmet plain.

Do send me pictures! We love to see finished examples of your work, and I am always at the end of an email if you get stuck.

 

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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