**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 

99 Prints: Tweaking Botanical Prints

Did I quit this 99 prints project? Quite...I will never be able to make 99 prints before the end of the year, I know, shame on me :-D. Anyway, from the batch of eco printed fabric I picked the worst ones and tweak them a little bit with my beloved Gelli printing plate. This is the result:

Here's a short video process:

EcoPrinting No Boiling No Mordant, does it work?!

Hello everyone, it's been a pretty while since I posted here, and in the meantime I got hooked by, well, another obsession: eco printing! I attended a very thoroughly -in person- workshop about it, and I was pretty sure I would never attempted it in the future because it was too much hassle, especially the boiling and the mordant part (adding some chemicals to the water to prep the fabric/paper). 

But curiosity won me over and I decided to ride the heat wave that hit Italy this Summer. I made several experiments, and filmed two videos, very long ones, you can watch them double speed, since my English is pretty simple and I speak slow :-)

First experiments using a tin can, iron blanket on paper:

Experiments with a proper rusted tube on fabric and paper:

Here's a short showing a notebook made out of ecoprinted papers:

E-Book in italiano: "Riciclo di stoffe creativo: sottobicchieri e vaso"

E' uscito il mio libro sul riciclo creativo di stoffe in italiano!!! Disponibile su Etsy, con spiegazioni complete passo passo e video per creare insieme a me il sottobicchiere ed un vaso tessile o cestino, dall' inizio alla fine:

Dopo un anno ancora mi diverte molto, ecco la mia ultima super piccola creazione:

Video Tutorial: How to Cyanotype with Stencils and Chipboards

A new obsession?! No way, just curious and eager to find a new way to dye fabric. Despite blue is my second last favourite colour I really love how this bunch of fabrics turned out. I started from an old white bed linen, cut in squares, and here's how it works:

I've found a new way to use my stencils (the dirtier the better):

This is a first experiment on paper, need more tests and playing:

Upcycled Fabric Coiled Jewels

Oooops, I did it again!! :-D Couldn't resist making some more fabric coiled jewels, I've already wore the pendant, it is so my stile: perfect on jeans and black shirt or dress!

Here's a short video process...I've made them from an old t-shirt:

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

Fabric Tea Bags Galore!

Stitch by stitch by stitch...I needed to keep my hands busy, what better way than a small stitched project? But small doesn't mean fast, so it takes several months to finish these slow stitched tea bags, but I liked the result I got and these are easy to store/hide somewhere, at least :-D

Fabric collage:

Jeans and gel printing:

Here's a short video process:

Rusted fabric:

Here's a short video process:

Upcycled Fabric Leftovers Earrings

At last I've made a pair of upcycled fabric coiled earrings, and I like them a lot! I had some trouble making the tiny hole in the little spiral, I know I am too ambitiuos, sometimes :-D

Here's a short fun video about them:

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

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 ;-)?):