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Try painting the bowl with undiluted white gouache.
I love to see the different ways people tackled the bowl in this design.
Courtesy of @paintedthimble, Tracey Pilling.
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White Narcissi, a hand embroidery kit featuring early Spring in a bowl of moss

What's in the kit?

  • A hand-embroidery kit featuring fresh white narcissi and silky willow buds in a bowl of moss. This design accompanied Issue 5 of The Stitcher's Journal as a Stitcher's Journal collection kit. The bowl offers scope for personal creativity, something I always like to incorporate in each of my hand embroidery kits.
  • A piece of antique French linen hand-printed in the UK by Caroline with the design.
  • A thread card loaded with all the threads you will need to complete the kit or empty if you choose 'no threads'. Some people have stitched this more than once, using yellows and creams.
  • A beautifully produced card folder printed with clear, step-by-step instructions including an actual-size drawing annotated with stitch and thread details.
  • The finished embroidery is roughly 16 x 14 cm / 6 1/2" x 5 1/2".
 

"I really enjoyed stitching this design. It was one of my early attempts at embroidery and I loved it...it took hours of stitching but the end result was so pretty!"

Additional Information

£40.00

Available on backorder

Additional Information

This kit is one that I most enjoyed designing and stitching, inspired by a bowl of white narcissi I plant every year with twigs and moss for Christmas. For me, scented white narcissi are my favourite Christmas decorations.

If you are a beginner, you will find guides to my favourite embroidery stitches in the Free Downloads section of the shop. I am self-taught and so really try to guide you through each step with my instructions. The bowl is left for you to embroider as you wish. It looks quite interesting when painted with undiluted white gouache, leaving some of the linen visible (see gallery image). Nothing to stop you stitching underneath the paint or over its surface for a ‘studio pottery’ look. You can download my FREE guide to painting on linen for embroideries in the FREE DOWNLOADS section here. 

 

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Happy New Year! 

Just to confirm that all shipping to the US is now sorted and working very efficiently…for now, at any rate!

I am also delighted to announce that we can now send The Stitcher’s Journal to certain EU countries. Please note this ONLY applies to The Stitcher’s Journal.  I hope we will soon be able to send embroidery kits as well but in the meantime I am expanding our range of downloadable patterns.

Issue 28 will be out in early March. Many people ordered Issue 27 as a one-off so if it has made you. want to subscribe, your subscription will start with Issue 28. 

There will be a short ‘Stitch this winter for next Christmas’ sale on the website starting ON TUESDAY 27TH  January, with my Christmas kits nd a few others at reduced prices. Moist of these will not be repeated so I can make room for new kits throughout this year.

Not in the sale will be some one-off Christmas designs printed onto antique linen sheet tops. These include my Christmas wreath and garland designs and will make unique hangings and banners to work on for next Christmas. Am, also stocking up The Rummage Room. It all takes time to prepare and photograph and the weather has been so grisly for photography but I hoope to get these on the website later this week. If you are interested in these, let me know and I will make sure I send an email to you with notice of when I am going to publish them, as they are limited in number and each is unique.

 
With very best wishes,

Caroline