Inspired Gift Designs
Glorious gifts for all...
If you’re looking at these gift ideas, maybe you would like them in a different colour – then I can help.
My glorious gifts are all hand embroidered; they take a little time to create as I take individual orders and create them personally for you.
I look forward to making something beautiful for you soon.
Creativity takes courage...
I have always been a creative person and after trying my hand at dressmaking, producing children’s clothes, knitting many hats, gloves and jumpers for my family; I returned to my first love of hand stitching.
That relaxed feeling I get as I am creating a beautiful embroidered design stitch by stitch. I am always keen to try something different, including new techniques in my designs to achieve the end results.
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Embroidery is the process of embellishing the surface of fabric or textiles
with decorative stitching with a variety of threads including silks and cotton.
Embroidery is an ancient art form. It’s been found on textiles from China
and Russia dating back thousands of years
My hand-stitched gifts
‘Sipping on Sunshine’ Wall Hoop
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This design makes a great summer gift, for those that like to sip on a gin & tonic
‘True Friends’ Wall Hanging
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These designs are perfect as a
gift for a friend. All hand
stitched onto dark cream linen.
The two Large flowers are
Stumpwork
These can be commissioned in various colours.
The central wording can also be different
Inspired designs
Who wouldn’t want to own a piece of Clarice Cliff?
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Inspired by my love of Clarice Cliff designs on her ceramic cups and vases etc I took pen to paper and designed three sections for a wall hanging. In this embroidered and textural design, I included techniques such as needle felting (which gave me a good base for the trees, stitches such as satin, bullion, chain stitches and blackwork.
All three panels have wadding underneath which helps give a 3D/fullness effect. I purposely chose bright, vivid threads just as Clarice would have chosen her paint pallet
Overall, I think this is a really tunning sl and unique design. I may well produce more in the future – watch this space!
From design to completion, it took me approximately 216 hours.
Full design measures: Height 120cm x 50cm width
Architectural Designs
We’ve been to Cadiz numerous times. The city has an amazing history. The architecture is so diverse with each turn of the cobbled streets. The juxtaposition of a Roman Amphitheatre that sits so close to a Catholic Cathedral and there is an amazing restaurant that makes the best Spaghetti Bolognese I’ve EVER tasted!
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It was on these visits that inspired me to create a hand embroidery piece of the Cathedral of Cadiz [Catedral de Santa Cruz de Cadiz] which is set against the sea on one side and a beautiful restful open square at its front. I did some drawings and decided I liked the back vista of the cathedral which included the sea defence blocks and the pebbled pathway with its palm trees.
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This project took over 3 months to produce. The stitches are varied and in some areas are very small. I had to consider shading and light as well as dimensions of the structures, the trees and the sea wall.
The final piece measures: Height 30cm x 20cm width
Mono Embroidered Gifts
All in Black
Using black silk thread on black cotton and is my own design.
There is a clover leaf design around the edge of a quilted pillow. The quilt design was made in free motion machine
embroidery in a leaf design.
I then made three stumpwork stitched flowers that lay off the ground fabric.
All in Green
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Initially this was a test piece to see how using just various tones of one colour would work.
I love it.
I can create this in tones of blue, or pink!
It makes for a lovely conversational piece.
I also produce fine hand-crafted gifts in Mono tones – gifts that use tones of one colour as you see here.
These are really interesting to design and create, I love the end results, so captivating and so unusual.
