What is slow stitching? A lot of fun! Learn how to get started with slow stitching and enjoy this creative textile art.

Last week, I was able to get a few projects finished up, you know, the one’s you just trudge through to get done. So, I decided to reward myself by indulging in a project that has been sittin…

Hand made slow stitching kit now available. Each kit is handcrafted and fabrics are chosen to suit the design. The kit contains all fabrics and threads, including a detailed instruction booklet. Finished artwork is approx 16cm x 20cm. Enjoy. Please note fabrics can vary.

Slow Stitching with Lisa Mattock April 6th Price: $115.00, including starter pack Another acclaimed Australian creator, Lisa Mattock, will be joining us for a workshop on her specialty, Slow Stitching. Lisa will teach the foundations of several stitches and explore the techniques involved in creating beautiful pieces from treasured finds. This class will put an emphasis on repurposing old fabrics in a contemporary, unique way. If you find you often feel stressed in the crafting process, this class is for you. Lisa embraces the idea of slowing down, recognizing the practical beauty of reclaiming, reusing and repurposing. Her class will draw inspiration from the arts of Sashiko, Boro, and Kantha, which involve decorative stitching, mending, and embroidery. Students will walk away with a unique panel and a game plan to complete it - as a quilt block, pillow cushion, wall hanging, or incorporated into a tote or other project! Lots of flexibility to create something artistic and special. Starter packs will feature all the supplies needed to get working, including a selection of vintage fabrics, embellishments and threads foraged by Lisa. Give us a call at the shop (360 715 1629) or stop by soon to register (the roads are mostly clear of snow downtown!), space is limited. Check out Lisa's work on her Instagram , @foragebylisamattock.

This week we are creating a slow stitching panel, taking time to enjoy the process and decide just what this beautiful piece might become...

Slow Stitching is sort of my favourite thing at the moment. And I thought you’d like to know why it’s so important for living a simpler more intentional life. Some mindful moments in your slow crafting journey are always worth thinking about. I have an online tutorial video course that will show you

Hand made slow stitching kit now available. Each kit is hand crafted and fabrics are chosen to suit each design. Some background fabrics will vary. The kit comes with all materials and threads, including a detailed instruction booklet. Choose a kit for a gift or to produce a beautiful individual hand made piece of art. Finished design is approx. 16cm x 20cm. Enjoy.

To save you from a creative lull, I'll show you two fibre art exhibitions you can currently view online.

This week we are creating a slow stitching panel, taking time to enjoy the process and decide just what this beautiful piece might become...

Slow Stitching is a new term for an age-old practice of quiet gentle making, mending, repair and stitching. Here’s what slow stitching is and how to do it, as well as what you can make from all your beautiful stitched pieces.

adventures with fiber and life

Slow Stitching is sort of my favourite thing at the moment. And I thought you’d like to know why it’s so important for living a simpler more intentional life. Some mindful moments in your slow crafting journey are always worth thinking about. I have an online tutorial video course that will show you

Here is one to all the gardeners out there! We are about a month away from being able to work the soil and plant here. I am looking forward to it this year.

This week we are creating a slow stitching panel, taking time to enjoy the process and decide just what this beautiful piece might become...

This week we are creating a slow stitching panel, taking time to enjoy the process and decide just what this beautiful piece might become...

Slow Stitching is a new term for an age-old practice of quiet gentle making, mending, repair and stitching. Here’s what slow stitching is and how to do it, as well as what you can make from all your beautiful stitched pieces.

Slow Stitching is a new term for an age-old practice of quiet gentle making, mending, repair and stitching. Here’s what slow stitching is and how to do it, as well as what you can make from all your beautiful stitched pieces.

Good Morning Friends & Folk ~ and a happy Sunday to us all.... ~ our day will be a rainy one, with grey clouds and a bit of a chill in the damp air. and on to Slow Stitching! we all {mostly} know the concept of slow stitching... methodical, mindful {or not} stitches made in small areas at a time using recycled, old, new, used, worn fabrics and threads of all-sorts. ~ now this is something that excites me LOL ~ I do follow a few Instagram, Pinterest & Youtube accounts for slow stitching, and I'll share them with you at the end of this posting, if you're so-inclined. here are a few photos that I've borrowed from Pinterest, showing some of my favorite projects that have been posted there: and now for a few snaps of what I'll be working on today using Slow Stitch... all I need to do is add thread! ~ I know it's not for everyone... and to some it looks unfinished, done by untrained hands, 'too' primitive or even messy. but to me, it is beautiful. poignant. intriguing... easy but challenging and frees oneself from the constraints of perfection-ism. nothing wrong with frayed edges and loose threads. faded colors and age-spots and stains are fine. wrinkles are perfect and show character. each stitch taken should be mindful, carefully placed and thought upon. stitch your feelings into your cloth and relax a while. does Slow Stitching have to be pretty? nope. is it supposed to make sense? only to you. is there a right or wrong way to do it? I don't think so, you do you. so give it a try. gather your supplies: a sewing basket or bag to keep your things in {or better yet, MAKE a bag!} sharp needle, blunt tipped needle, sharp scissors, chalk, pencil, frixion pen {heat erasable} lots of threads and lots of fabric scraps. and don't forget to include your imagination...... here are the links promised and I do hope you visit them: https://deep-rooted-healing.com/art-projects/buried-books https://www.jessiechorley.com/ https://www.instagram.com/petalplum/ https://www.instagram.com/maycontainpaper/ https://www.instagram.com/k3n.clothtales/ Blessings from the Farm ~ Lori

A step-by-step tutorial for knitting beginners on how to purl. Instructions for this essential knitting stitch the continental way.

This week we are creating a slow stitching panel, taking time to enjoy the process and decide just what this beautiful piece might become...

Slow Stitching is a new concept that incorporates ancient hand stitching traditions

This week we are creating a slow stitching panel, taking time to enjoy the process and decide just what this beautiful piece might become...

Traditional Kantha Stitching holds lots of layers of fabric together to make one larger piece of useable cloth. Wise Craft Handmade

What will you do with all those beautiful pieces of stitching 'process over outcome' ? Here's 10 ideas on how to turn your mindful making stitched work into a practical and useful project that makes you feel happy using it. From drawstring pouches to improv quilts these are simple ways to make somet

The piece above is the first traveller's blanket I ever made dating from 2001/02 and was made for an exhibition in New Zealand. It was inspired by travels in Africa back in 1990 and the yelow/black and red fabric had been purcahsed at a market in Bangui in the Central African Republic. I hand dyed the background fabric ( and if you join the class there is instructions for this type of dyeing in the notes). There is no batting in this piece- it is simply stitched through three layers of hand dyed musling fabric Above . Pieces I have made over the years. The photo above were all pieces made for an invitational exhibition at the Quilt & Craft Fair in Sydney and Melbourne. I spent 18 months making this pieces- it was a stitching marathon. Some of these pieces ( except the blue on the left) are for sale if you are interested. All of the pieces in the photo above have been handstitched. When I moved back to Gellibrand in 2015, I lived in a shed on my land I had there and it had no power. I idid eventually get a solar panel for lighting but it was not enough to power a sewing machine so I did a lot of hand stitching until I sold it early in 2019. I also hand stitch when I travel as it is easy to take with me. I use almost solely perle 8 weight threads though in reality you could use any embvroidery threads- whatever you have to hand really. The piece on the left and the one beside were made into a book PLaids Nomades by Editions de Saxe and I have seen some wonderful interpretations. The pomegranate piece was started whilst I was house sitting for a friend in the shadow of Pic St Loup. Pomegranates have inspired a lot of my work over the years and it is the tale of Demeter and her search for her daughter that inspires this work. I love the greek classical tales- they are bold, big and soemtimes outrageous and yet they often touch on human emotions and the excesses thereof. I stitched this piece on a piece of hand dyed khadi which was dyed whilst I was visiting a friend in Rajasthan. It was a failed piece of indigo dyed khadi but somehow acquired a life of its own as I stitched this piece. The piece above was purchased by a friend in Tassie- i think it is amongst my favourites , but to be honest I spend so much time stitching these pieces that they all rank as favourites. This piece was a journey through the surface design techniques I have used over the years that I have been stitching seriously as a textile artist. This piece was commenced when I did an artists residency with the women of Boneca de Atauro ( whose works I have for sale on another page of my blog- 100% of proceeds go to these women who do amazing things on a tiny island of the East Timor coast) Every morning I would walk along the beach before it got to hot and the first time I was there I encountered many sea urchins. There is a ridiculous number of french knots on this piece- and I took soem months to finih this piece ( it measurs 45 cm x 90 cm) The piece above was commenced whilst I was exhibiting at ChARTres some years ago . I was invited to exhibit this year but unfortunately due to travel restrictions I was not able to partiicpate. I love this event and have come to know the organisers and other artists as friends and have coem to view Chartres as my second city. At the time I only had undyed khadi on hand and soem indigo dyed thread which has soemhow found its way into my suitcase. So I decided I would sytitch this piece monotone . The hand dyed thread was slightly variegated and soem of it was a little darker than the rest- it became an exercise in making each circle different by stitchig alone and using weight of stitching to create contrast. This piece is called One World and I started it not long after I moved to Morwell and my ex commission house which I bought when I sold my land in the Otways. We have only one world and each of us sees it so differently - yet together we must all take care of it and ensure its continuation. sometimes the task seems too daunting particularly in the face of big business ( which are corprorations enriching the pockets of a few by exploiting the resources that should belong to us all) and yet we must continue advocating fighting for what a lot of us know is right in the knowledge that there is only one earth. This piece has been stitched on madder dyed khadi sourced from the Stitching Project and you can even buy packs of patches from the stitching project if you have none of your own.. This piece is doubled khadi without any batting or flannel middle layer. The piece above and the details were inspired by walks in the shadow of Pic St Loup near Montpellier. I sometimes house sit for a friend there ( i also visit her of course) but again that has not happened for soem years. I walk her dog through the vineyards and there is always some new weed, flower or herb to encounter. If you wish to learn any of this work I will be starting another on-lie course on 14 february- yes I know Valentine's day, but these pieces are not stitched in a day. I set up a private facebook group for discussion and sharing and organise fortnightly zoom sessions for question and answer. There are also a few short videos and extensive notes whish are delivered every two weeks over an 8 week period. I keep the stitching relatively simple and encourage you to tell your own stories with your stitching. Would love to see you join me. Cost is $75 AUS- just click on the Paypal button.