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WORLD EMBROIDERY DAY 2025 — A Celebration of Stitch and Friendship

What the ticket includes

  • Attendance at a celebration of World Embroidery Day on 26th July, 2025 at King John Nursery, Etchingham.
  • Exclusive access to The Red Dress with a presentation and stitch workshop, exploring more unusual stitches used on the dress, by founder Kirstie Macleod, author of Conversations with Stitch: The Red Dress Project, published on 29 May 2025.
  • Red Dress Sampler workshop with Caroline Zoob, including her new embroidery kit design celebrating The Red Dress. We will make a start on this with paint and stitch on the day.
  • Morning coffee, a two-course lunch and afternoon tea and cake.
As well as The Red Dress,  which will be on display in our work space, there will be a small gathering of brocante dealers specialising in antique and vintage textiles and haberdashery and World Embroidery Day regulars, Liz Jones and Penny Edwards (@theembroiderybird) will have stands selling their work and new embroidery kits. This is the seventh year we have celebrated World Embroidery Day together and it is always a very special day.

Additional Information

£130.00

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You can read an article written by Karen Kay for Issue 10 of The Stitcher’s Journal in The Stitcher’s Journal Archive HERE.

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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