**New e-book! Happy Slow Stitching is here

Hello everyone, my third e-book is out and is all about slow stitching, upcycling fabric and colourful collages. Paint your own fabric, learn most used basic stitches and three finished projects, for beginner and advanced stitchers. A new relaxing hobby to make on the couch in the evening with few materials needed. 

On offer on this very first week, a 15% discount on the sales price, available to direct download on my Etsy shop.

By the end of this book, you'll learn how to dye and decorate fabric, the most common stitches, how to create fabric collage and how to use them for three finished project.

This e-book contains:

- Step by step photo tutorial from start to finish:

-Beaded Hearts

-Agenda/Journal Cover

-Kiss Clas Purse

-Most common stitches

-How to make a fabric collage

- 65 pages with photo and description

- PDF file (10 MB size)

- 18 video tutorial (5 hours of footage)

Get it now with 15% discount on my Etsy 

Upcycled Fabric Leftovers Necklace

When you start coiling fabric..you can't stop! So I tried something little (quick to make but it requires a bit of patience), to make some jewels. I started with a statement necklace, very bold to wear. I have some coiled discs left maybe I will try something sober and and some earrings, my mind is buzzin' with ideas :-)

Here's a short/tease video about it:

If you like to learn and master this technique here's an ebook I wrote, available in my Etsy shop:

Loooove slow stitching! Stitched Hearts

How much I love slow stitching? A lot! But I 'm running out of ideas what to stitch lately. I started to put together these simple stitched hearts before Christmas and well, it took a while to finish and I love how these turned out.

From a gel print with one of my stencil (my favourite one, oh those black micro beads):

And finally I used those rusted fabric:

And here some short video process (are you hooked ;-)?):

New E-Book: Upcycled Fabric Coiled Placemats and Vessel

Would you like to learn how to make these ones out of old garments, jeans, t-shirts and plastic bags? I put together an ebook with hours of instructional videos with my 'lovely' Italian accent and English mistakes everywhere :-D! A big THANK YOU to the my friend Claire that patiently spend time in correcting the step by step PDF(much needed).

To wet your appetite here's a bonus video focused on blanket stitch.

Here's materials you need and the two projects you make, a small placemat and a vessel:

This technique is applicable to coiled basket as well, any size you like

You also learn how to make a nice, decorative closure like this one:

Available in my Etsy shop as direct download

Or here (I send it by email within 24 hours):

This e-book contains: 

- Step by step photo tutorial from start to finish

- 5 video tutorial: 

   - Video 1: Coiled Placemats - Materials and how to start 

   - Video 2: Coiled Placemats - How to add a new thread,a new core, a new piece of fabric

   - Video 3: Coiled Placemats - How to make a decorative closure 

   - Video 4: Coiled Vessel – How to make the sides 

   - Video 5 – Inspiration and resources 

- Bonus video - Focus on Blanket Stitch 

- 24 pages with photo and description

- PDF file

Tiny Colourful, Coiled Basket

Welcome everyone! Today a small post with my latest obsession, two coiled baskets, very tiny and inspired by a gorgeous large basket made a while ago ( in the 80'? Maybe even before) by my grandmother. I am hanging all these baskets in my kitchen wall, these will make a nice addition :-)

Here's a short video process:

Upcycled Coiled Basket Galore

 

After a long Summer of 'hard' working, here we are with at least one post dedicated to my latest obsession: coiling basket, made mainly of upcycled materials, such plastic bags, old bed linens and lots of fabric strips (I started with leftovers and then I finally started putting a dent on my large collection of any kind of fabric I had in my stash for years). Yesterday I just finished my first ever coiled vessel. Why on earth I thought it would be simpler and quicker than the flat large ones... :-D:

Here's a quick recap of the process:

And then a squared very large basket (40 cm) made with a sort of pattern and limited palette:

And the very first baskets made in July, how wonky is the small basket? But it is ok... 

How to start a coiled basket:

 

The first coiled basket:

Slow Stitched Fabric Journal

My latest stitched project (lately I stopped a bit, too hot even in the evening) a mini fabric journal where I stitched some tiny stitched embellishments with a cover made out of cheese cloth: I was fascinated by the organic stitching by Mirjan Gielen, so I bought one of her tutorial and tried it. I loooove it!

And inside: