May 2026
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Hello my creative tribe!
So excited to share this new design with you. I wrote a story in this months magazine about where the pattern came from. I hope you love every stitch and every page of the magazine.
A few things I wanted to share about the process as nothing is ever straightforward when it comes to developing a pattern, working out the colours and stitches and generally making things work outside of of my own studio.
If I’m just stitching something for myself I will let a lot of stuff slide. There might be spots where I botch a stitch and cover it up with another stitch. I have in the past used a shade lighter (or darker) without realising and then ended up with all the leaves in one green and three leaves in a slightly lighter shade.
Despite spending more time to get things right for our tribe patterns, I still muck things up. There are three “mistakes” in this month’s design that are visible in the photo. I spotted them after I finished all the photography and thought “no way am I going to fix that and re-do all the photos!” haha!
This was my test piece where I was working out the colours and stitches. I was adamant that it had to go on the brown fabric because I loved how the colours looked.
OK let’s take a closer look at a few things with this month’s pattern.
Initially I started the main and final design by printing it onto stick & stitch sheet. I quickly found that it was actually challenging me because there are a lot of small stitches close together. Back stitches between satin stitches, chain stitches converging together close to French knots and so on.
I decided that using the water soluble vilene was the right way to do it but just not with the sticky back.
I bought a sheet of it from my local fabric store, printed the design onto it by attaching it onto a sheet of A4 paper with double sided tape (I was amazed it worked).
Eureka!
It was soooo easy to stitch!
Just make sure you tack it on properly to minimise the vilene moving around.
You can just trace it on with a regular pen if you don’t want to muck around with trying to put it through your printer.
I also tried another way by using a white tailors pencil and tracing the design over a bright window. You can actually see the pattern through the brown fabric. Although my fabric was quite lightweight so maybe a heavier fabric will be less transparent.
You can see here that the pattern is quite visible against a bright window if you have a white pen or pencil you can trace it that way.
For the pink fabric version (you’ll see the full result in the magazine) I used a carbon paper to transfer the design. I use the Pelikan brand which I find transfers really well and lasts for what seems like ever.
OK that’s it for the blog part, go check out the magazine and get excited! Leave me a message, question or comment below. I always reply to them all!
Big hugs!
xxx