New Iron on Patterns are Here!

I'm thrilled that finally my new iron-on patterns have arrived! Together with my daughter Luna I assembled the patterns (transfer sheet(s), description sheet, postcard) last weekend and I have quite a few waiting to be send out to you. The pattern envelopes have a new distinctive design that reminds me of black board chalk drawings. :)

One of the new patterns is The Most Excellent Party Bear and it has some awesome new additions. When you buy the pattern you receive two pattern sheets: one with the Party Bear and one with 'special touches': several motifs to turn the Party Bear pattern into a DIY sampler for an anniversary or to welcome a new baby. There's a banner with 'Welcome' and a tag that you could add names to for example. You could combine them into one piece or make several smaller pieces to hang them nicely arranged on a wall.

Wave Goodbye.. is another pattern you may recognise from last year. It's a fresh, fun, summery design and comes with an extensive stitch and colour key.

Flower and Bird is a new design based on the Negative Space piece I made earlier this year. As it's perfect for shading it's included in my upcoming online Shading Class! All new iron-on patterns are also available in one Excellent New Pattern Deal which will save you almost 15%.

Lotus Flower & Simply Shading Workshop

I finished this Lotus Flower today. It's part of my Simply Shading Workshop that starts in about a months time. Throughout the workshop there are 'needle workouts', short exercises that will help students 'see' how shading works. Most of these don't even involve using needle and thread! The Lotus Flower obviously does though and it's an exercise that comes up towards the end of the
workshop.

You can still sign up until the end of this month, after that I'm going to send out the little kits that go with the workshop.  The kits include my new Bird & Flower iron-on pattern (yay!), needles, fabric and the handy floss organisers pictured in the first photo. This workshop is for the uninitiated, basic embroidery skills & motiviation will do. There will be no stitchy snooty-ness just pure shading fun!