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A Bowl of Daisies

A vintage embroidery transfer to download

  • A vintage hand embroidery transfer design to download free of charge by clicking DOWNLOAD.
  • Use it as a sampler for practising some of the basic embroidery stitches by referring to My Favourite Stitches, also available as a free download HERE. For more ways in which to make use of this appealing design, see below.

Additional Information

There are so many ways in which you can use this vintage design. It is a really useful for beginners to practise all the basic stitches. You can download My Favourite Stitches from this section. Try working some of the flowers in outline only, using two strands of thread and Stem or Split stitch. Try filling some of the petals with ever decreasing ovals of Split stitch, using only one strand of thread. Or outline the petals with single strand thread and then work Satin stitch over the shape, Try angling some of your Satin stitch, or fill the petals with ‘padding’ stitches to raise your Satin stitch top layer. All of this is covered in the guides to the different stitches in My Favourite Stitches. I do a couple of them a little differently and have been told that it makes them easier. You can also turn to the RSN Stitch Bank which tells and shows you pretty much everything you could ever wish to know about a vast range of stitches.

If you enlarge the design, you could work it using fine wool such as DMC’s new EcoVita range of naturally-dyed wool thread.

This design first appeared in Issue 7 of The Stitcher’s Journal, in an article about the colour orange.

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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