Description:
Boost your creativity, develop mindfulness through making, and create your own unique textile treasures.
Bursting from every page are ideas for unique and meaningful textile artworks, each with a story to tell. From eco-dyeing, cyanotype and weaving to collage, embroidery and slow stitching, Tilly harnesses many crafts to help her connect with Mother Earth in every season. She creates beautiful keepsakes that capture memories and encourage creativity with wild and natural materials.
Discover how to:
- arrange nature mandalas
- make your own natural paints and dyes
- press your own flowers
- enjoy slow stitching
- explore sun printing
- create botanical journals
- preserve and display your work.
Brimming with inspiration, this is a treasure trove of 12 simple-but-stunning seasonal projects that will draw you closer to nature and improve your well-being whatever your age or ability.
Check out Tilly's Slow Stitch Café website: a friendly online community offering a tranquil space to explore slow stitching, make beautiful projects and learn valuable stitching and textile techniques. There are also video tutorials, livestreams and book reviews to help you embrace your own unique creativity. Visit: www.tillysslowstitchcafe.co.uk
Review
Connecting with Nature: Mindful Stitching and Textile Art Through the SeasonsTilly Rose. Search, $24.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-80092-191-7 In this mostly satisfactory manual, Rose (Daydream Journals) shows how to make crafts featuring materials found in nature. A few of the projects don’t require any stitching. For instance, the “mini flower press” consists of several pieces of paper folded in half and tied at the crease with twine, creating a portable booklet where readers can collect flowers for pressing. However, most of the projects utilize a needle and thread, including the nature mandala, which is made by constructing a circular geometric design from found materials, sketching the results, and then recreating the sketch on fabric with stitching. Elsewhere, Rose describes how to create a “stitched garland” by embroidering plants on scraps of fabric and stringing them together on a ribbon, as well as how to make an “eco-dyed wall hanging” by sewing fabric strips—dyed at home using red onion skins, turmeric, marigold petals, and other natural ingredients—on top of each other in a concentric rectangular design. The open-ended projects provide plenty of opportunities for readers to flex their creativity, though the “showcasing treasures” project is a letdown, consisting of little more than collecting natural materials and placing them on a shelf. Still, eco-conscious crafters will enjoy this.
Where Women Create - Winter 2024
Bursting from every page are ideas for unique and meaningful textile artworks, each with a story to tell. From eco-dyeing, cyanotype and weaving to collage, embroidery and slow stitching, Tilly harnesses many crafts to help her connect with Mother Earth in every season. In Connecting With Nature: Mindful stitching and textile art through the seasons, she creates beautiful keepsakes that capture memories and encourage creativity with wild and natural materials.
Craft Focus Jan 2025
Brimming with inspiration, Connecting with Nature is a treasure trove of 12 simple-but-stunning seasonal projects that will draw you closer to nature and improve your well-being whatever your age or ability.
About the Author
Tilly combines traditional sewing techniques with a love of layering cloth, adding textures through surface stitching and embellishing to capture the everyday snippets of life, giving her designs a modern twist but always with a beautiful vintage flavour. She holds workshops throughout the UK and online, and is a guest presenter on craft TV channels, showcasing her products and needlecraft skills. Tilly hosts textile tours in India and plans to extend this to other countries. She also regularly exhibits at craft shows. This is her fourth book with Search Press.
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Take inspiration from nature and sew, create and craft all year round with best-selling author and textile artist Tilly Rose.
Boost your creativity, develop mindfulness through making, and create your own unique textile treasures.
Bursting from every page are ideas for unique and meaningful textile artworks, each with a story to tell. From eco-dyeing, cyanotype and weaving to collage, embroidery and slow stitching, Tilly harnesses an exciting variety of crafts to help her connect with Mother Earth in every season. She creates beautiful keepsakes that capture memories and encourage creativity with wild and natural materials.
Pressing flowers and herbs
Flowers have been collected for centuries and there is documentation of pressed petals found as far back as Ancient Egyptian times. Pressing flowers and leaves is another form of storytelling. It allows you to preserve the beauty of nature in a way that is both simple and long‑lasting.
Botanical eco-dyes and paints
Foraging for plant material of all kinds and then taking them home to experiment with a little eco-dyeing has been an favourite pastime of mine for decades. It is the most exciting part of my textile work and, even after all these years, I am still absolutely mesmerized when I take the dyed cloth or paper out of the pot for the big reveal. That sense of serendipity and wonder is so magical!
Weaving
Weaving is a calming and meditative craft that stills the mind while creating beautiful designs. Its history connects us to our past. Our ancient ancestors experimented with a whole host of different natural fibres such as nettles, flax and tree bark to discover which fibre was the strongest, the hairiest and the most durable in terms of warmth.
Slow stitching
Slow stitching is my absolute passion. As many of my loyal readers know, I love working with cloth and thread. Cloth combined with vintage or natural treasures creates a gorgeous fusion, especially when a little sewing is thrown in for good measure.
Seasonal projects include:
Winter - Memory Sticks
This activity is an easy introduction to collecting natural elements and looking at them as keepsakes or treasures. It is a wonderful prompt to start off your year with a happy smile, beginning in the wintery months of January and February when the ground is icy and barren, Mother Earth is enjoying a quiet slumber, and you are nestled by the fire keeping those toes warm after a long walk.
Spring - Stitch Diary
Spring is a beautiful time of year to appreciate the tiny details that appear as we venture from the gloomy days of winter and start looking forward to the warmer days of sunshine. Mother Earth is beginning to bloom again after her long slumber and there is an abundance of inspiration all around us as we start to notice the new plants, flowers and trees with their leaves starting to awaken.
Summer - Mini flower press
In the summer months, when the gorgeous wildflowers and garden blooms are aplenty, I love collecting a few of my all-time favourite flowers and pressing them ready for adding into journals or other craft projects.
Autumn - Artist’s Brush Wrap
There is something exciting about capturing the textures and patterns given freely by Mother Earth and using them in your own creative way. Leaf prints are a perfect example. Leaves are one of the most popular natural ingredients to use as they are so readily available and easy to use.
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Visit the Search Press Store
Connecting with Nature: Mindful stitching and textile art through the seasons
AED12079
Quantity:
Order today to get by 7-14 business days
Delivery fee of AED 20. Free for orders above AED 200.
Imported From: United States
At BOLO, we work hard to ensure the products you receive are new, genuine, and sourced from reputable suppliers.
Every product in the BOLO catalogue is sourced through our Verified Global Supply Network of verified sellers, authorized distributors or directly from the manufacturer.
Each product undergoes thorough inspection and verification at our consolidation and fulfilment centers to ensure it meets our strict authenticity and quality standards before being shipped and delivered to you.
If you ever have concerns regarding the authenticity of a product purchased from us, please contact Bolo Support. We will review your inquiry promptly and, if necessary, provide documentation verifying authenticity or offer a suitable resolution.
Your trust is our top priority, and we are committed to maintaining transparency and integrity in every transaction.
While we strive to display accurate information, variations in packaging, labeling, instructions, or formulation may occasionally occur due to regional differences or supplier updates. For detailed or manufacturer-specific information, please contact the brand directly or reach out to BOLO Support for assistance.
Unless otherwise stated, all prices displayed on the product page include applicable taxes and import duties.
BOLO operates in accordance with the laws and regulations of United Arab Emirates. Any items found to be restricted or prohibited for sale within the United Arab Emirates will be cancelled prior to shipment. We take proactive measures to ensure that only products permitted for sale in United Arab Emirates are listed on our website.
All items are shipped by air, and any products classified as “Dangerous Goods (DG)” under IATA regulations will be removed from the order and cancelled.
All orders are processed manually, and we make every effort to process them promptly once confirmed. Products cancelled due to the above reasons will be permanently removed from listings across the website.
Description:
Boost your creativity, develop mindfulness through making, and create your own unique textile treasures.
Bursting from every page are ideas for unique and meaningful textile artworks, each with a story to tell. From eco-dyeing, cyanotype and weaving to collage, embroidery and slow stitching, Tilly harnesses many crafts to help her connect with Mother Earth in every season. She creates beautiful keepsakes that capture memories and encourage creativity with wild and natural materials.
Discover how to:
- arrange nature mandalas
- make your own natural paints and dyes
- press your own flowers
- enjoy slow stitching
- explore sun printing
- create botanical journals
- preserve and display your work.
Brimming with inspiration, this is a treasure trove of 12 simple-but-stunning seasonal projects that will draw you closer to nature and improve your well-being whatever your age or ability.
Check out Tilly's Slow Stitch Café website: a friendly online community offering a tranquil space to explore slow stitching, make beautiful projects and learn valuable stitching and textile techniques. There are also video tutorials, livestreams and book reviews to help you embrace your own unique creativity. Visit: www.tillysslowstitchcafe.co.uk
Review
Connecting with Nature: Mindful Stitching and Textile Art Through the SeasonsTilly Rose. Search, $24.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-80092-191-7 In this mostly satisfactory manual, Rose (Daydream Journals) shows how to make crafts featuring materials found in nature. A few of the projects don’t require any stitching. For instance, the “mini flower press” consists of several pieces of paper folded in half and tied at the crease with twine, creating a portable booklet where readers can collect flowers for pressing. However, most of the projects utilize a needle and thread, including the nature mandala, which is made by constructing a circular geometric design from found materials, sketching the results, and then recreating the sketch on fabric with stitching. Elsewhere, Rose describes how to create a “stitched garland” by embroidering plants on scraps of fabric and stringing them together on a ribbon, as well as how to make an “eco-dyed wall hanging” by sewing fabric strips—dyed at home using red onion skins, turmeric, marigold petals, and other natural ingredients—on top of each other in a concentric rectangular design. The open-ended projects provide plenty of opportunities for readers to flex their creativity, though the “showcasing treasures” project is a letdown, consisting of little more than collecting natural materials and placing them on a shelf. Still, eco-conscious crafters will enjoy this.
Where Women Create - Winter 2024
Bursting from every page are ideas for unique and meaningful textile artworks, each with a story to tell. From eco-dyeing, cyanotype and weaving to collage, embroidery and slow stitching, Tilly harnesses many crafts to help her connect with Mother Earth in every season. In Connecting With Nature: Mindful stitching and textile art through the seasons, she creates beautiful keepsakes that capture memories and encourage creativity with wild and natural materials.
Craft Focus Jan 2025
Brimming with inspiration, Connecting with Nature is a treasure trove of 12 simple-but-stunning seasonal projects that will draw you closer to nature and improve your well-being whatever your age or ability.
About the Author
Tilly combines traditional sewing techniques with a love of layering cloth, adding textures through surface stitching and embellishing to capture the everyday snippets of life, giving her designs a modern twist but always with a beautiful vintage flavour. She holds workshops throughout the UK and online, and is a guest presenter on craft TV channels, showcasing her products and needlecraft skills. Tilly hosts textile tours in India and plans to extend this to other countries. She also regularly exhibits at craft shows. This is her fourth book with Search Press.
Details:
Take inspiration from nature and sew, create and craft all year round with best-selling author and textile artist Tilly Rose.
Boost your creativity, develop mindfulness through making, and create your own unique textile treasures.
Bursting from every page are ideas for unique and meaningful textile artworks, each with a story to tell. From eco-dyeing, cyanotype and weaving to collage, embroidery and slow stitching, Tilly harnesses an exciting variety of crafts to help her connect with Mother Earth in every season. She creates beautiful keepsakes that capture memories and encourage creativity with wild and natural materials.
Pressing flowers and herbs
Flowers have been collected for centuries and there is documentation of pressed petals found as far back as Ancient Egyptian times. Pressing flowers and leaves is another form of storytelling. It allows you to preserve the beauty of nature in a way that is both simple and long‑lasting.
Botanical eco-dyes and paints
Foraging for plant material of all kinds and then taking them home to experiment with a little eco-dyeing has been an favourite pastime of mine for decades. It is the most exciting part of my textile work and, even after all these years, I am still absolutely mesmerized when I take the dyed cloth or paper out of the pot for the big reveal. That sense of serendipity and wonder is so magical!
Weaving
Weaving is a calming and meditative craft that stills the mind while creating beautiful designs. Its history connects us to our past. Our ancient ancestors experimented with a whole host of different natural fibres such as nettles, flax and tree bark to discover which fibre was the strongest, the hairiest and the most durable in terms of warmth.
Slow stitching
Slow stitching is my absolute passion. As many of my loyal readers know, I love working with cloth and thread. Cloth combined with vintage or natural treasures creates a gorgeous fusion, especially when a little sewing is thrown in for good measure.
Seasonal projects include:
Winter - Memory Sticks
This activity is an easy introduction to collecting natural elements and looking at them as keepsakes or treasures. It is a wonderful prompt to start off your year with a happy smile, beginning in the wintery months of January and February when the ground is icy and barren, Mother Earth is enjoying a quiet slumber, and you are nestled by the fire keeping those toes warm after a long walk.
Spring - Stitch Diary
Spring is a beautiful time of year to appreciate the tiny details that appear as we venture from the gloomy days of winter and start looking forward to the warmer days of sunshine. Mother Earth is beginning to bloom again after her long slumber and there is an abundance of inspiration all around us as we start to notice the new plants, flowers and trees with their leaves starting to awaken.
Summer - Mini flower press
In the summer months, when the gorgeous wildflowers and garden blooms are aplenty, I love collecting a few of my all-time favourite flowers and pressing them ready for adding into journals or other craft projects.
Autumn - Artist’s Brush Wrap
There is something exciting about capturing the textures and patterns given freely by Mother Earth and using them in your own creative way. Leaf prints are a perfect example. Leaves are one of the most popular natural ingredients to use as they are so readily available and easy to use.
Similar suggestions by Bolo
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Similar items from “Embroidery”
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https://www.bolo.ae/products/U1800921918